On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 7:45 AM, mattj@svn.wikimedia.org wrote:

Revision: 41248 Author: mattj Date: 2008-09-25 11:45:26 +0000 (Thu, 25 Sep 2008)

Log Message:

(bug 8440) Allow preventing blocked users from editing their talk pages

• Adds database field to ipblocks table, ipb_allow_usertalk, storing

whether or not the user can edit their own talk page. Defaults to 0 to coincide with the default value of $wgBlockAllowsUTEdit.

• Recommended to update all current blocks to have a allow_usertalk value

of whatever the current setting is

• Retasks $wgBlockAllowsUTEdit to be the default value of the field in the

blocking screen - unless a sysop changes the checkbox, will use whatever that variable is set to.

Suggest reverting this. Repurposing $wgBlockAllowsUTEdit is a bad idea imo. Sysadmins who set that to false (ie: not allowing edits) shouldn't expect their sysops to be able to override that (which they now can).

-Chad