Re: [Foundation-l] Stewards acting locally

2010-08-08 Thread MZMcBride
Tim Starling wrote: > On 09/08/10 03:17, James Alexander wrote: >> Global locking does not have any autoblock like feature and we have a large >> portion of our xwiki abusers (and even a growing number of those who only >> attack only one or two sites and have figured out the global login system) >

Re: [Foundation-l] Stewards acting locally

2010-08-08 Thread Tim Starling
On 09/08/10 03:17, James Alexander wrote: > Global locking does not have any autoblock like feature and we have a large > portion of our xwiki abusers (and even a growing number of those who only > attack only one or two sites and have figured out the global login system) > who will take advantage

Re: [Foundation-l] Stewards acting locally

2010-08-08 Thread James Alexander
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Platonides wrote: > Aaron Adrignola wrote: > > I appreciate your detailed explanation. If a page at Meta could be > created > > to explain this and linked to from the edit summaries this would do much > to > > eliminate confusion amongst local administrators. I d

Re: [Foundation-l] Stewards acting locally

2010-08-08 Thread Platonides
Aaron Adrignola wrote: > I appreciate your detailed explanation. If a page at Meta could be created > to explain this and linked to from the edit summaries this would do much to > eliminate confusion amongst local administrators. I do have a concern, > however. I've checked the SUL statuses for

Re: [Foundation-l] Stewards acting locally

2010-08-08 Thread James Alexander
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Aaron Adrignola wrote: > I appreciate your detailed explanation. If a page at Meta could be created > to explain this and linked to from the edit summaries this would do much to > eliminate confusion amongst local administrators. I do have a concern, > however. I

Re: [Foundation-l] Stewards acting locally

2010-08-08 Thread Aaron Adrignola
I appreciate your detailed explanation. If a page at Meta could be created to explain this and linked to from the edit summaries this would do much to eliminate confusion amongst local administrators. I do have a concern, however. I've checked the SUL statuses for many of these accounts blocked

Re: [Foundation-l] Stewards acting locally

2010-08-08 Thread James Alexander
While I've had my own issues with Stewards reaching into local communities I actually think these blocks are important and very useful for our xwiki abusers. While the transparency reasoning that Pathoschild mentioned is true and important just as if not more important is the autoblocks (where at l

Re: [Foundation-l] Stewards acting locally

2010-08-08 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Jesse (Pathoschild), 08/08/2010 16:53: > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Aaron Adrignola > wrote: >> It is irritating to continually see stewards making local blocks at the >> English language Wikibooks with the comment "crosswiki abuse > locked[1]; about bot[2]-- >". > > These local blocks are m

Re: [Foundation-l] Stewards acting locally

2010-08-08 Thread Aaron Adrignola
That would be an acceptable solution. Thanks. --User:Adrignola On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Jesse (Pathoschild) wrote: > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Aaron Adrignola > wrote: > > It is irritating to continually see stewards making local blocks at the > > English language Wikibooks with t

Re: [Foundation-l] Stewards acting locally

2010-08-08 Thread Jesse (Pathoschild)
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Aaron Adrignola wrote: > It is irritating to continually see stewards making local blocks at the > English language Wikibooks with the comment "crosswiki abuse locked[1]; about bot[2]-- >". These local blocks are made when the account has been globally locked by a

[Foundation-l] Stewards acting locally

2010-08-08 Thread Aaron Adrignola
It is irritating to continually see stewards making local blocks at the English language Wikibooks with the comment "crosswiki abuse ". This has been occurring since March. In every case I've checked the user in question has a unified account and in nearly all cases they have not made any edits l