Username blacklist has already been global since 2015, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T38939
Vito Il giorno ven 26 mar 2021 alle ore 10:06 William Chan <will...@wchan.hk> ha scritto: > Hi, > > I have observed that there is a global renaming policy but a global > username policy is absent? As we all know that usernames are global > following SUL, and literally the same username will be used across multiple > wikis. > > So, a very simple question is raised: shall there be a draft of the global > username policies, considering usernames are now global? > > Also, also due to SUL, it seems that username blacklists should be put at > a global scale, or it may just be not logical as one may just escape one > wiki's username blacklist through creating it at another project, and use > SUL to circumvent such block. > > I hope for broad input, considering this may mean a broad policy change, > and what I have in my mind is just a very primary idea to install a Global > Username Policy that acts similar to the current Global Rename Policy that > is in enforcement. > > P.S. I put it here before placing it on meta RFC is not to avoid > circumvention but hope to seek more input instead of just bumping a very > large policy change without any external input. > > Regards, > William > User:1233 > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >
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