[Foundation-l] Stewards acting locally

[James Alexander]

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Aaron Adrignola
<aaron.adrignola at gmail.com>wrote:

> I appreciate your detailed explanation.  If a page at Meta could be created
> to explain this and linked to from the edit summaries this would do much to
> eliminate confusion amongst local administrators.  I do have a concern,
> however.  I've checked the SUL statuses for many of these accounts blocked
> locally and usually the local blocks only affect less than 20 wikis.
>  What's
> to say that a mischievous individual couldn't register at one of the other
> 700 wikis without blocks/autoblock in place and do the same thing?  This
> seems to be a problem in need of a technical solution rather than one that
> creates the situation that prompted my original message.  As it is, it
> seems
> that even if local blocks for global locks are performed at Wikibooks (and
> elsewhere), you are still going to need to do a CU regardless.
>
> -- User:Adrignola
>
>
There is a lot of truth to that and I totally agree. It would be very nice
to find a way to get an autoblock feature in to  global locking at least for
a short bit (which may well both help limit the need of CUs and help to make
things easier on the stewards). Actually I'll see if there is a bug filed
and if not I'll file it from talking to Pathoschild it sounds like it may
not be technically easy but is always worth trying to find better meathods.
I totally understand your concern about them using the other 700 wikis, I
have similar ones. There does seem some truth to the idea that they often
seem to just use the easiest to find projects or the ones they have already
found but that is obviously not always the case.

James