https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33429

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--- Comment #3 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> 2012-08-08 22:39:01 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> I don't think the blacklist should be managed locally at all. This is just a
> recipe for ongoing SUL fragmentation. See bug 36939.

I'm not sure bug 36939 is related to this bug.

This bug is about a bad user creating a "Jdoe (WMF)" account and using it to
impersonate a Wikimedia Foundation staffer. As a response to this scenario,
admins at Meta-Wiki have attempted to blacklist accounts ending in " (WMF)" and
" (WMDE)", thinking that administrators/staffers will be able to override the
title blacklist when creating new WMF or WMDE accounts. However, even if an
administrator can create the account, the new and unprivileged WMF or WMDE
account is going to always hit issues on other wikis where the global title
blacklist applies, unless these accounts are explicitly given a global user
group allowing them to override the global title blacklist.

As I understand it, that is what this bug is discussing. Yes, the local title
blacklists probably need to be done away with for accounts (bug 36939), but
that seems like a largely separate issue from what's being discussed here.

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