Given the competence of the average admin on enwiki, I think this is a phenomenally bad idea. Giving select admins the authority to impose all-project blocks for IP addresses or even named users is probably something that is needed, but this is a very powerful privilege and should be extended on a very limited basis with input from multiple projects. Passing a beauty contest on enwiki should not give one the power to block people on commons, dewikt, or frwikisource.
I would support the Foundation providing an open proxy listing service to which individual projects could subscribe to or not depending on their particular circumstances. Most projects would subscribe, perhaps with certain exclusions; some, like zhwiki, would probably not subscribe. It would be a project-by-project decision whether or not to subscribe. A DNSBL is the obvious way to do this. Selecting people to maintain this list should be done on a multiproject basis, similar to how stewards or meta admins are elected, or alternatively selected directly by the Foundation.
In any case, this is 10% technical and 90% policy, which suggests that some other mailing list is more appropriate for the discussion.
Kelly
On 10/20/06, Piotr Derbeth Kubowicz derbeth@wp.pl wrote:
I am talking only about common block for IP numbers, not users. Moreover, I am strongly against blocking user's account on one project for things he has done on another project. So please do not make off topic and discuss what NPOV is and what it is not, because we are on technical list.
With IP numbers the situation is completely different. Common behaviour of occasional vandals on English Wikipedia is switching to (for example) Wikibooks immediately after having IP blocked and going on with vandalising random pages. This is really hard to catch by sysops and could be very easily stopped by automated propagating IP number block to all available Wikimedia projects. Whether it would be done by creating common database (similar to Commons) or by a bot similar to CommonsTicker - it's irrelevant for administrators of projects suffering from vandals coming directly from Wikipedia. In most cases 2-hour block restricted to anonymous users is just enough to stop vandal.
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