On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Andrew Garrett andrew@epstone.net wrote:
Hi, all,
I'm pleased to announce that Tim has just enabled the Global Blocking extension on all Wikimedia projects.
The global blocking extension allows stewards to block IP addresses and ranges on all of Wikimedia's projects, a tool which has been much-needed to deal with cross-wiki vandalism and spam. Policies for use of global blocking were discussed on meta, and are presently located at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_blocking. Global blocks are not currently applied on meta, so that they may be appealed there.
While the code has been quite thoroughly checked, any bugs should be reported at bugzilla - a 'GlobalBlocking' component exists under the 'Extensions' product.
ِAwful news, for Grawp and friends, I mean.