[Mediawiki-l] Blocking users/deleting users/IP?

[Brion Vibber]

On Jan 6, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Lisa Jill wrote:
> I had a user register on my wiki (eewiki.com) and spam it with links.
> I went to block this user but it wants their IP - I have no idea how
> to find that information out from the wiki.
>
> Can someone please instruct me on how to deal with this?  Thanks =)

If you enable $wgSysopUserBans in LocalSettings.php, you (and any other 
sysops) will be able to block named user accounts through the regular 
web interface.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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