[Foundation-l] Global Blocking

[David Gerard]

On 22/04/2008, Marcos Melendez <mtmelendez at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I didn't see this subject within the foundation archives, so I'm notifying all users about an ongoing discussion on enabling Global Blocking, a tool which could block an IP address across all Wikimedia projects. The discussion centers on which users should get the tool (i.e. the selection process), the Global Blocking policy, and the participation of Wikimedia projects.
> The discussion can be found here:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_blocking
> All Wikimedia editors are invited to contribute.


By the way - the impetus for this largely comes from the checkusers'
mailing list, where the stewards have a hair-tearing time tracking and
blocking really odious cross-wiki vandals. It's unfortunately a
typical pattern where this sort of vandal will be kicked off one wiki
and go wild on as many others as they can. It's anticipated these sort
of blocks will be placed by meta admins and/or stewards, and (per how
stewards are supposed to work) only where it's a really clear case of
"block this vandal right now."


- d.