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

[Alex]

The ability for local sysops to override it would help this a bit, but 
ideally, it should be restricted to blocking IPs only until SUL is 
implemented.

Dan Rosenthal wrote:
> 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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