[Foundation-l] Global Blocking

[mike.lifeguard]

Not to mention that we have more than just the Wikipedia project! And those
projects are also in many languages! There are 708 wikis (at my last count),
and most of them are "small wikis" which would benefit most from the ability
to global block when needed.

Mike.lifeguard

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian McNeil [mailto:brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org] 
Sent: April 23, 2008 8:21 AM
To: 'Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Global Blocking

I'll vouch for David's comment here. A noticeable percentage of Checkuser
time is being used catching vandals as they project hop. Vandal 2.0 has seen
the advertising blurb that we have over 250 languages.


Brian McNeil

-----Original Message-----
From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard
Sent: 22 April 2008 17:25
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Global Blocking

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.

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