[Foundation-l] Stewards acting locally

[Platonides]

Aaron Adrignola 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

Autoblocking suppressed accounts (Bug 23114) is implemented
(r64982,r65184,r65185). It just needs to be reviewed and deployed.