Aaron Adrignola wrote: > I appreciate your detailed explanation. If a page at Meta could be created > to explain this and linked to from the edit summaries this would do much to > eliminate confusion amongst local administrators. I do have a concern, > however. I've checked the SUL statuses for many of these accounts blocked > locally and usually the local blocks only affect less than 20 wikis. What's > to say that a mischievous individual couldn't register at one of the other > 700 wikis without blocks/autoblock in place and do the same thing? This > seems to be a problem in need of a technical solution rather than one that > creates the situation that prompted my original message. As it is, it seems > that even if local blocks for global locks are performed at Wikibooks (and > elsewhere), you are still going to need to do a CU regardless. > > -- User:Adrignola
Autoblocking suppressed accounts (Bug 23114) is implemented (r64982,r65184,r65185). It just needs to be reviewed and deployed. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
