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

[Thomas Dalton]

On 31/01/2008, Alex <mrzmanwiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

SUL will only help where people use exactly the same username on each
site they need to be blocked from - vandals smart enough to jump
projects when one catches them are likely to realise they need to use
a different name (just hopefully one similar enough for a regex to
catch).