https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44759

Robert Horning <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Robert Horning <[email protected]> ---
I've got to add that blocking for one second and then annotating is precisely
what this proposal is trying to correct.  Essentially it is the same thing and
perhaps just a matter of semantics here, but it does illustrate a shortcoming
in the MediaWiki software.  All that is being asked here is to give an
administrator/sysop level user the ability to add an additional
"administrative" entry into logs that could be used for annotation purposes and
wouldn't actually be logged as yet another block or some other potentially
negative commentary on the part of the user where the annotation is being
sought.

I agree with North800 here that the "creative misuse" of some admin tools
doesn't preclude the fact that there is a real need here and something that
needs to be tweaked in the MediaWiki interface.  There are other hacks and
work-arounds that have been used over the years for sysops trying to get around
limitations in the software.  This is justifiably a bug, and one that has even
been discussed at length on the Wikipedia Village Pump as something serious
enough that it should be shown to have broad community support to be made as a
priority bug to at least look at and try to find a solution.

See also: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28policy%29#Proposal:Create_a_capability_and_process_to_expunge_a_block_from_someone.27s_record_when_all_agree_that_it_was_an_error

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