I am one of sysops at cs: Wikipedia. Recently there was a spate registered user's disruptive edits somewhere between trolling and outright vandalism. There is a need to ban him temporarily, but there's no way to do it:
As far as I understood en:Wikipedia:Blocking_policy#How_to_block, you're just supposed to go to Special:Blockip, or cs:SpeciálnÃ:Blockip, and put the username into the IP address field. However, this results in the MediaWiki:Badipaddress error message.
I don't know anything about MediaWiki and have no particular understanding of PHP, but the respective script in CVS (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/phase3/includes/SpecialBlock.... php?rev=1.30) also tests the variable $wgSysopUserBans, which apparently (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/phase3/includes/DefaultSetti... .php?rev=1.30) is false by default:
# User rights (...) $wgSysopUserBans = false; # Allow sysops to ban logged-in users
I, or at least Google, found no other instance of the variable anywhere, so no way to set it to true either. On the other hand, there must be a way to do it - there are bannings going on at en: all the time. So, could somebody with better knowledge of the system tell me whether I missed anything, or whom should I ask to set this in cs? Or is there a workaround, a way to find out a registered user's IP address?
Thanks a lot for any help.