mohamed.m.k at gmail
Aug 21, 2008, 6:37 AM
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Andrew Garrett <andrew [at] epstone> wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> I'm pleased to announce that Tim has just enabled the Global Blocking
> extension on all Wikimedia projects.
>
> The global blocking extension allows stewards to block IP addresses
> and ranges on all of Wikimedia's projects, a tool which has been
> much-needed to deal with cross-wiki vandalism and spam. Policies for
> use of global blocking were discussed on meta, and are presently
> located at <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_blocking>. Global
> blocks are not currently applied on meta, so that they may be appealed
> there.
>
> While the code has been quite thoroughly checked, any bugs should be
> reported at bugzilla - a 'GlobalBlocking' component exists under the
> 'Extensions' product.
>
>
ِAwful news, for Grawp and friends, I mean.
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--alnokta
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