[Foundation-l] Global blocking needs to be halted for now

[Alex]

David Gerard wrote:
> 2008/9/14 Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com>:
> 
>> BTW I love how looking at the global block list all the reasons are in english shorthand with no links.  Wasn't it said during the discussion of enabling this feature that the block reason would have links to a help page in multiple languages for all the non-english speakers that are being blocked.
> 
> 
> {{sofixit}}
> 
> The answer to the original question is, of course, ipblockexempt on a
> per-user basis - this is precisely what ipblockexempt is for. This is
> achieved by filing a bug on bugzilla.mediawiki.org with a link to
> community discussion supporting it, and pinging the devs as needed.
> i.e., it's another {{sofixit}}
> 
> 
> - d.
> 

Isn't this what [[Special:GlobalBlockWhitelist]] is for? If a global
block is causing problems on one project, it can be locally disabled and
more targeted blocks, or softblocks, put in place if necessary.

-- 
Alex (w:en:User:Mr.Z-man)