On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 8:39 PM, George Herbert <[email protected]> wrote: > Without having time to deep-dive the source code tonight - > > How difficult do developers feel that it would be to add the ability > to block an account or IP range and only remove the ability to create > accounts, not remove the ability to edit? > > We have the bit to block and block account creation (or not), and the > AO vs hard block bits, but this would presumably be a bit for block > but don't prevent edits... > > If the code already allows this, the UI currently doesn't, and that > would be a plus. I don't recall what the code does, though. If we'd > need to add support in the code to do this, I will look into that > more. > > > -- > -george william herbert > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
It's not a trivial amount of work. What needs to be done here is breaking up blocks into a per-right system where individual rights can be removed from an account (or groups of rights, for ease of use). What does *NOT* need to happen is having additional columns tacked on for each right we see fit to block at a given time (account creation, upload, emailuser, were all done as hacks IMHO). I opened bug 14636 almost 2 years ago requesting this feature, but I haven't gotten around to doing it and nobody else has stepped up to the plate. -Chad _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
