[Foundation-l] Global blocking needs to be halted for now

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Sun Sep 14 14:51:32 UTC 2008


2008/9/14 Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com>:

> BTW I love how looking at the global block list all the reasons are in english shorthand with no links.  Wasn't it said during the discussion of enabling this feature that the block reason would have links to a help page in multiple languages for all the non-english speakers that are being blocked.


{{sofixit}}

The answer to the original question is, of course, ipblockexempt on a
per-user basis - this is precisely what ipblockexempt is for. This is
achieved by filing a bug on bugzilla.mediawiki.org with a link to
community discussion supporting it, and pinging the devs as needed.
i.e., it's another {{sofixit}}


- d.




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