[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia-wide global blocking mechanism?

[Milos Rancic]

I am for that completely. We will need one global admin list, too.

On 1/31/08, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just sent this to wikitech-l, but what I'm proposing is a *big*
> hammer, so needs lots of due consideration. Please pick holes in the
> idea.
>
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> - d.
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
> Date: 31 Jan 2008 10:18
> Subject: Wikimedia-wide global blocking mechanism?
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Discussions on the checkuser list (which is Wikimedia-wide) suggest
> that an all-project blocking mechanism would be very useful in keeping
> our more persistent vandals from hopping from project to project,
> wreaking havoc. This happens quite a bit.
>
> A variant of Wikia's regex block would be a likely candidate for a
> useful implementation.
>
> One detail it would need (in some coder's Copious Free Time) would be
> an option to unblock a globally-blocked IP or range locally. (One use
> case would be a local ISP which has several good editors from a small
> project, but has open proxies or similar that are a source of
> vandalism on many other projects.)
>
> Presumably such a global block would only be available to stewards, on
> due consideration.
>
> Before anyone starts coding - what are the devs' thoughts on a global
> blocking mechanism? What could go badly wrong?
>
>
> - d.
>
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