[Foundation-l] Dealing with interwiki disruption

[David Gerard]

2008/4/24 Marcus Buck <me at marcusbuck.org>:
> 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.

>  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?


Depends on what the person is doing. I referred previously to how the
main reason for global IP blocking is so as to deal with persistent
cross-wiki vandals; many take to trying to harass people (e.g.
blocking admins, previous wiki-foes) on other wikis, vandalising in
their names, etc. (SUL helps with this, but many targets are not
admins.) The cases I'm thinking of are bad editors who are
sufficiently unambiguously vandalising and/or harassing that a steward
could clearly act, for instance.


- d.