On 8/22/07, Adrian <aldebaer(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
I'm sure this idea has already been kicked
around, but why aren't there
selective blocks, i.e. blocks restricted to one or more certain pages? I
don't mean temporary bans on articles or article groups as occasionally
imposed by the ArbCom, but a block-button block.
It could e.g. give users with specific conflicts of interest (not
necessarily in a corporate sense, also like strong personal bias/POV
etc.) the opportunity and even an incentive to work on completely
different areas, as they would be working to actively restore the
community's trust in their willingness to contribute to the encyclopedia
as a whole. Wouldn't that be a lot more constructive than temporarily
revoking '''all''' editing privileges for things like an 3RR
violation
on a certain page, or personal attacks in some heated debate on a
certain talk page? If it later turned out that the user in question is
generally intolerable, s/he could accordingly be fully blocked (as
usual) to give them a stronger warning.
So, well, nevermind if the idea has already been discussed and rejected.
Adrian
There's no good general purpose access control mechanism in MediaWiki
right now, to build such a tool upon.
It might be useful, but we can't do it right now.
Impossible or not, Andrew Garrett proposed to write this feature himself,
to wikitech-l on August 12. You should take him seriously, he's very
capable. If you want it done, I suggest you give him feedback and
encouragement.
-- Tim Starling