[Announce-l] Wikizine - nr.:33 - Tech flash

Mon Jul 10 09:47:12 UTC 2006

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Year: 2006  Week:28 Nr.:33 - Tech flash         

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=== Technical news ===

!!!-***Bug 550 is going to be fixed soon***-!!!

Tim Starling announced on the mailing list that very soon, probably within 24
hours, the way the block function works will change.  

Most important changes;

*Allow blocks on anonymous users only (bug 550)
**-> this means that registered users who are using that ip address still can
edit, like users who on the network of a school or need to use the proxy of
there ISP
* Allow or disallow account creation from blocked IP addresses on a per-block
basis

Here you can see a screenshot form the new interface;
*http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/SpecialBlockip.png

For more information read the posting by Tim Starling;
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/27667/focus=27667

And even more reading;
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550

Lets rejoice ourselves, spread the news to all sysops on all +600 Wikis and
celebrated this this wonderful day!

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Editor(s): Walter
E-mail: ihavenews AT wikizine DOT org
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