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

[David Gerard]

On 31/01/2008, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:

> For the global admin list, I was under understanding that stewards are
> actually doing the job.


Yes, stewards have a lot of the higher administrative powers for small
wikis that don't have much of a community yet. Including checkuser, so
the stewards using checkuser are on checkuser-l and haven't yet
screamed in horror at the notion ;-)


- d.