On 3 Jun 2011 at 13:34, MZMcBride wrote: > Sue Gardner wrote: > > On 3 June 2011 10:00, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I too would like to see the development of a process for global banning of > >> users who have created serious problems on either the global or the > >> multiple-project level. > > > > Is there something the Foundation could do to support that happening? > > As far as I know, no, not really. It's not a Wikimedia Foundation issue, > it's more of Wikimedia community (Meta-Wiki) issue. Someone needs to propose > a global banning policy and then get (global community) consensus to enact > and enforce such a policy. Once there's a reasonable level of > consensus/support, the Wikimedia stewards can enact global locks on > problematic accounts. Most of the technical infrastructure seems to be in > place already, in some form. > > A bit more info is available here: > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_blocks_and_locks#Global_locks>. > > As noted on the page at Meta-Wiki, I suppose one area where the Wikimedia > Foundation could help is assigning resources to implement global blocking > (currently there's only global locking). More info about that is available > here: <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15294>. > > MZMcBride >
MZM, I disagree, this needs to be a decision by the WMF, not by stewards. Some sites are 'independent', and this is a matter that needs to have no wriggle room, and hence be a definitive statement. It is simply a case that the worst of the worst need to be managed from the top and at a policy level, not as operational issues. This is a due diligence matter. Regards, Andrew _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l