On 10/19/06, Piotr Derbeth Kubowicz <derbeth(a)wp.pl> wrote:
For me, it is logical that block of IP number should
be common to all Wikimedia projects. Allowing this would have a large impact on number of
vandalisms in sister projects.
It would also result in cross-wiki block/unblock wars with no central
authority to realistically appeal to. Open proxies should be dealt
with on the software level via DNSBL as discussed here a while back,
and there's not so much reason to carry over other blocks. If this
does occur, it needs to be a (bureaucrat-settable?) local option to
inherit from one specific wiki, and blocks need to be locally
overridable by local admins.