On 1/31/08, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
A variant of Wikia's regex block would be a likely candidate for a useful implementation.
I'm not sure if regexes would really be necessary. What's wrong with regular CIDR ranges?
Before anyone starts coding - what are the devs' thoughts on a global blocking mechanism? What could go badly wrong?
The main problem with global blocking is not really that it requires SUL (although that could help with blocking a single USER wikimedia-wide), but that it requires messing around with creating a new database. It's not really a problem -- just an annoying "gotcha" that a lot of people aren't willing to mess around with.
Presumably, we would maintain some sort of local exception list, which could be maintained by local administrators, in order to satisfy the requirement you specified.