[Foundation-l] Dealing with interwiki disruption

[Chad]

For those wanting to keep track of Bugzilla/SVN, the
relevant bugs are 8710 (originally split the CU logs),
13789 (requesting they be re-merged), and revision
29527.

-Chad

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 May 2008 20:13:26 Ray Saintonge wrote:
>  > > For example checkuser info on indef blocked user should be shared among
>  > > checkusers. If user 'A' is banned on wiki 'X' and then decides to
>  > > register the account 'B' on the wiki 'Y' the local community should be
>  > > prepared for it.
>  >
>  > I have no use for this kind of infectious paranoia.
>
>  This is our reality. I already have one example: a person with the account A
>  was on tr and az wps. They were banned at tr some time ago, then, after some
>  time at az wp, while having the account B at tr.wp. With somewhat more
>  effective CU organization, account B would be banned at tr.wp at the time
>  when the account A was banned at az.wp. However, account B was in the process
>  of getting admin permissions at tr.wp. And the process of blocking it was
>  very painful for tr.wp community. Instead of having a regular method for
>  dealing with such kind of problems, they needed deux ex machina, some steward
>  who will do one IAR for them.
>
>
>
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