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

[Dan Rosenthal]

Yeah, it's not perfect, but it seems like it would be a good tool for  
stewards to have. Only thing is, I'm envisioning a scenario where a  
valid user with good contribs gets blocked, doesn't user meta, tries  
to get unblocked at his home project, but cannot because he's not  
locally blocked, and the user doesn't know how to get in touch with a  
steward (Because he doesn't know of this policy) or doesn't understand  
how to communicate with one.
I don't think it's necessarily that big of a deal, but I think it will  
need a LOT of localization to be effective.

-Dan
On Jan 31, 2008, at 7:14 AM, David Gerard wrote:

> 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.
>
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