[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia-wide global blocking mechanism?

Thu Jan 31 19:36:36 UTC 2008

--- Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, it's not perfect, but it seems like it would
> be a good tool for  
> stewards to have. Only thing is, I'm envisioning a
> scenario where a  
> valid user with good contribs gets blocked, doesn't
> user meta, tries  
> to get unblocked at his home project, but cannot
> because he's not  
> locally blocked, and the user doesn't know how to
> get in touch with a  
> steward (Because he doesn't know of this policy) or
> doesn't understand  
> how to communicate with one.
> I don't think it's necessarily that big of a deal,
> but I think it will  
> need a LOT of localization to be effective.
> 

This is the key problem.  I think that unless we are
capable of notifing all wikis of about the workings of
this process in a language they are proficient taking
blocks Wikimedia wide will cause a lot of harm.  Of
course an opt-in system would be very workable.

Birgitte SB

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