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

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Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: David Gerard [mailto:dgerard at gmail.com] 
Sent: September 14, 2008 11:52 AM
To: birgitte_sb at yahoo.com; Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Global blocking needs to be halted for now

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.