[Wikipedia-l] Planned change to default IP blocking behavior
Tim 'avatar' Bartel
wikipedia at computerkultur.org
Tue Oct 17 21:32:39 UTC 2006
Hi,
Brion Vibber schrieb am 17.10.2006 21:37:
> A few months ago the ability was added to limit IP blocks to allow
> logged-in contributions to continue. This allowed finer-grained blocking
> of troublemakers on shared IPs (schools, AOL etc).
>
> There's some suggestion to make this the default mode. I wanted to
> announce this ahead of time since it will change what happens when
> admins make a block without manually clicking something extra.
>
> If there's no serious objection, we'll go ahead and change this in a few
> days.
I really support this.
Checking this box is the second most typical mouse click besides
deletion of single version of pages... ;)
'Disallow creation of new user accounts' should of course remain ticked
by default.
Bye, Tim.
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