[Foundation-l] Stewards acting locally

[James Alexander]

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Platonides <Platonides at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> Ah ha! globally suppressed accounts only I gather? (so not normally locked
ones) May be beneficial to have it as an option for stewards while locking
any account and not just ones that need to be suppressed.


James Alexander
james.alexander at rochester.edu
jamesofur at gmail.com