On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > > Ah ha! globally suppressed accounts only I gather? (so not normally locked ones) May be beneficial to have it as an option for stewards while locking any account and not just ones that need to be suppressed. James Alexander [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
