[WikiEN-l] IP blocking - possibly a dumb question

[Erik Moeller]

> When a user is IP blocked here, does that:
> 
> (a) prevent them accessing Wikipedia at all
> (b) or just kick them into a "read only" mode?
> 
> If the former, is it technically feasable to do the latter instead? The
> advantage would be that sysops would not need to be in quite so much of
> a hurry to restore blocked IPs.

This should be in an FAQ somewhere ;-). Banned users can still read
articles.

Regards,

Erik

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