[Mediawiki-l] Prevent AutoBlocking

[Benjamin Lees]

I'm referring to a checkbox that allows an administrator to choose whether
or not to enable autoblocking at the time of the block.  I don't know of an
option for disabling autoblocking globally, although you could probably set
$wgAutoblockExpiry <
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgAutoblockExpiry> to 0 (or that
might make them indefinite; I'm not sure).

You should upgrade to the latest version. <
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading>

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On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Duncan Cunningham <duncan at greatplains.net>
wrote:

> First, when disabling autblocking, does it only disable autoblocking for
> the user you are trying to block or is it a system wide change?
>
> Second, how easy of a transition would it be to upgrade to 1.9? I am
> relatively new to mediawiki, what would be the require steps to upgrade
> from 1.8.2 to 1.9?
>
>
> Duncan Cunningham
>
> Benjamin Lees wrote:
> > When blocking, you have the option to disable the autoblock feature <
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Autoblock>; unfortunately, I
> don't
> > think that option was added until version 1.9.  This is a good excuse to
> > upgrade.
> >
> >
>