[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia-wide global blocking mechanism?

[Brian McNeil]

I'm on Checkuser-l and I'm not going to reveal which IP provoked this
discussion. However the block was generally agreed at one year in this case.
Yes, it is our old friend Willy on Wheels.

In cases like this where you are restricted to short blocks you are just
making more work. When you've permanently blocked a dozen vandal accounts
registered through an IP over a period of months you want the option to
block the IP for a long term.


Brian McNeil

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or we just agree that it will only be used for IP's (and if I'd have
to say it, only for short terms, so that overriding would not be a big
issue too. ) If we agree on that, I think we should be able to trust
the stewards to adhere to that, and there would be no need to also
make sure it is not technically possible.

BR, Eia

2008/1/31, Alex <mrzmanwiki at gmail.com>:
> The ability for local sysops to override it would help this a bit, but
> ideally, it should be restricted to blocking IPs only until SUL is
> implemented.
>
> Dan Rosenthal wrote:
> > Yeah, it's not perfect, but it seems like it would be a good tool for
> > stewards to have. Only thing is, I'm envisioning a scenario where a
> > valid user with good contribs gets blocked, doesn't user meta, tries
> > to get unblocked at his home project, but cannot because he's not
> > locally blocked, and the user doesn't know how to get in touch with a
> > steward (Because he doesn't know of this policy) or doesn't understand
> > how to communicate with one.
> > I don't think it's necessarily that big of a deal, but I think it will
> > need a LOT of localization to be effective.
> >
> > -Dan
> > On Jan 31, 2008, at 7:14 AM, David Gerard wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On 31/01/2008, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> For the global admin list, I was under understanding that stewards
> >>> are
> >>> actually doing the job.
> >>>
> >> Yes, stewards have a lot of the higher administrative powers for small
> >> wikis that don't have much of a community yet. Including checkuser, so
> >> the stewards using checkuser are on checkuser-l and haven't yet
> >> screamed in horror at the notion ;-)
> >>
> >>
> >> - d.
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