On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
Oh good. Well, in my copious spare time, I have an Enwiki user annoying me enough that I think actually coding this up to work is worthwhile rather than continuing to come back to 'em the hard way. I'll start code diving when car repairs are done. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
