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

[Birgitte SB]

Re: Steward-l email doing nothing to resolve problem

>From the email forwarded to me asking for help that is the gist of was was reported to the person unable to edit. If that is not true I don't have any other information of what was done to help the editor.  And the fact that _he_ emailed me, still unable to edit is a good reason to take the report that nothing was done for him at face value. 

Frankly how to handle these anticipated problems _should_ have been decided in concert with the decision to implement of this feature.  I had thought they had been.  Obvoiusly the feature was rolled out without addressing the concerns that people expressed over this during the intial discussion of such a feature.  That should not have happened but here we are.

Birgitte SB


--- On Tue, 9/16/08, Elisabeth Anderl <spacebirdy at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Elisabeth Anderl <spacebirdy at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Global blocking needs to be halted for now
> To: birgitte_sb at yahoo.com, "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 9:17 AM
> Hello, such claims "they did nothing" should have
> a ground, imho...
> 
> DerHexer blocked that range after it had been used for
> massive cross-wiki
> vandalism, it had been blocked on en.wiki before and after
> sul was available
> the user abused it to vandalize from other projects.
> The other user had a block exemption on en.wiki, which did
> not work after a
> global block and contacted DerHexer, we opened a
> request<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15288>at
> bugzilla that it should work for global blocks too, which
> was fixed
> the
> next day.
> 
> @global group IP-block-exemption, that should _not_ be
> decided by stewards,
> but by the community, who should assign it, should it
> overwrite a local
> block too, etc.
> I suggest You better open a discussion for that on Meta
> instead on the
> mailinglist, because then the group might actually be
> created. Thanks.
> 
> E.
> 
> 2008/9/14 Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com>
> 
> >
> >
> > DerHexter forwarded this problem to the stewards
> mailing list.  They did
> > nothing to help this guy so he asked me to unblock him
> locally.  I unblocked
> > the IP locally as that was all I could do.  If there
> is a global solution
> > people are denying it in practice for some reason that
> I don't know.
> >
> > Birgitte SB
> >
> >