https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17929

--- Comment #10 from DF <[email protected]> 2011-08-03 21:34:17 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> For reference, global IP blocking already exists. I'm not sure if this 
> includes
> ranges (I assume so).

Yes. IP Rangeblocks (up to /16 ones) can be made with the GlobalBlocking
extension, already avalaible to us. However global *b*locking of accounts is
not possible at present. See bug 15294 for such a request or possibly bug 18182
too.

(In reply to comment #7)
> This depends on creating global blocks. Which could be nice for other tasks,
> such as global proxy blocking. Although I have also seen meta admins going 
> wild
> blocking proxys, too.

Currently we globally lock plain vandal accounts and plain abusive usernames.

Notwithstanding since the user IP addresses are not affected by global locks
(as opposed to a local block with autoblock + account creation blocked) the
user can simply continue creating abusive accounts until it hits the account
creation per IP limit. 

Having the option to autoblock the IP with account creation blocked globally
will save us a lot of time having to manually get IPs of vandal accounts and
blocking them to avoid ie: switching to another wiki or continue vandalizing,
which is very annoying.

Thank you.

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