[Foundation-l] Autocreated global accounts (was: [Wikitech-l] $wgCentralAuthAutoNew=true)

Fri Aug 22 14:39:49 UTC 2008

For global accounts, we have global "locking", which does pretty much the
same thing.

2008/8/22 Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com>

> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Matthew Flaschen
> <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> > Huib Laurens wrote:
> >> So a vandal has to make one account en can spam on all wiki's? Is
> >> there global blocking?
> >
> > Yes.  See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_blocking
> >
>
> Global blocking only works for IP addresses at this time (it was
> designed specifically that way).
>
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