https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25400
Summary: Software should allow admins to give specific users
permission to edit specific pages through blocks
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.16-svn
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Blocking
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
On Englih Wikipedia, we some times have the following situations, where things
would be easier and better if we could allow specific users to edit specific
pages despite being blocked:
* Arbitration Committee (ArbCom) cases - these frequently involve problematic
users, who will some times be blocked for some or all of the time the case is
open; they should still be allowed to comment on their case.
* Users getting a {{2nd chance}} - if a user blocked as a vandalism-only
account requests an unblock, then we some times give the user a {{2nd chance}}:
Show us that you can help improve one article, and we will unblock you.
Unofrtunately, the only place the user can do this is on his/her own talk page.
It would make this process easier if we could give the user a subpage on which
they can do it.
* Discussions about unblocking - some times, we have such discussions at places
outside of the user's own talk page, such as the Administrators' noticeboard.
It would make things easier if the user could respond there directly.
* At times, admins decide that a blocked user is essential for an on-going
discussion, and copy comments the ser makes on his/her talk page to the
discussion in general. In such cases, it would be easier if the user could
respond there directly.
In all these cases, things would b e easier if admions could allow a given user
to edit a given page despite being blocked. Thos should be held in a publicly
visible way, and be revokable by anty admin either when the need is cearly no
longer there, or in case of abuse.
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