[Foundation-l] Dealing with interwiki disruption

[Chad]

Well, with GlobalBlocking, we can now block abusive IP addresses
across multiple wikis. Blocking their account is still a local act, until
a "Block Global Account" extension gets made (I believe someone is
working on it, but I could be wrong?)

-Chad

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:27 PM, White Cat
<wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
> Consider the scenario where a disruptive user is indefinitely blocked on a
>  particular wiki. He decides to have a "fresh start" in causing the same
>  slow-paced disruption on all sister projects one by one...
>
>  All wikis are independent, yes. But when dealing with interwiki disruption,
>  this should not get in the way of collaboration between wikis in dealing
>  with disruptive users.
>
>  Interwiki vandals for example are promptly dealt with with or without this
>  collaboration but other kinds of disruption, particularly slow paced ones
>  need such collaboration.
>
>  We currently lack such a median and communication between wikis to deal with
>  interwiki issues such as interwiki disruption.
>
>     - White Cat
>
>
>
>  On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Marcus Buck <me at marcusbuck.org> wrote:
>
>  > White Cat hett schreven:
>  > > Has there been any discussion on this matter? If a user is being
>  > disruptive
>  > > on a wiki he or she will eventually end up getting blocked for it. If the
>  > > same user decides to continue this disruption he was blocked for on other
>  > > wikis, particularly sister projects, commons, meta and etc how should he
>  > or
>  > > she be treated.
>  > >
>  > > I know every wiki is independent. But letting a disruptive user become
>  > the
>  > > source of agony on many wikis seems like a problematic thing to do.
>  > >
>  > >     - White Cat
>  >
>  > That should be decided by the projects he or she is disrupting,
>  > shouldn't it? If they feel being disrupted, they will block, if not they
>  > won't. Where do you see problems with this way of handling it?
>  >
>  > Marcus Buck
>  >
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