Community health initiative/Blocking tools and improvements/Links

 Phabricator

• Search query for open tickets with 'block'
• MediaWiki-user-management tag
• T120734— Improve MediaWiki's blocking tools (parent ticket)
• T26294 — Should block IPv6 addresses at /64 instead of /128
• T44303 — Defect: Unable to block large IPv4 /8 ranges
• T128328 — Split the block permission into several permissions
• T16636 — Blocking/Permissions Rewrite
• T152953 — $wgCookieSetOnAutoblock should perhaps spread autoblocks when the cookie matches
• T152850— Bring the CIDR calculator to MediaWiki core (CheckUser)

Meta

• Community Tech/Blocking tools
  • Notes page from late 2015/early 2016 that documents some decisions and discussions from the CommTech team as they built some blocking tool improvements.
  • All the suggested projects are also listed above.
  • No talk page.
• 2015 Community Wishlist Survey/Results
  • Proposal "Enhanced per-user, per-article protection / blocking" received some support and some interesting discussion.
  • Proposal "Improve MediaWiki's blocking tools" received some support and interesting discussion, and ultimately led to the CommTech page being created above.
• 2016 Community Wishlist Survey/Results
  • Proposal "Allow admins to hide names of users while blocking them" received some support and discussion
  • Proposal "Enable administrators to update block logs" has some support as well
  • Proposal "All edits from hardblocked IP mark as unreviewed" is more about vandalism than harassment
• 2017 Community Wishlist Survey Results (link TBD)
• Anti-vandalism ideas
  • Older page with some ideas on how to prevent or clean-up vandalism.
  • The page and talk page have some ideas for monitoring suggested vandal IPs/accounts, as well as adding obstacles to the account creation or first-time editing processes. Not pertinent for our needs.
• Global bans
  • Policy page that describes how and when accounts are globally banned. (In brief, when 2+ communities agree, a global ban will likely be placed.)
  • The talk page and archives have no pertinent suggestions.
• Global blocks
  • Policy page that describes how and when IP addresses are blocked on all wikis. (Usually for vandalism, either for a day or year.)
  • The talk page and archive page had no pertinent suggestions.
• Global locks
  • Policy page that describes how and when accounts are locked by stewards, meaning the user cannot log in on any Wikimedia wiki.
  • The talk page has some mildly interesting comments but nothing pertinent to our immediate work.

MediaWiki.org

I found no pertinent suggestions for new blocking tools or improvements on MediaWiki.org

• Technical MediaWiki information
  • Help:Blocking_users
  • Help:Range_blocks
  • Manual:Edit_throttling
  • Manual:Block_and_unblock
  • Manual:Combating_spam
  • API:Block
  • API:Blocks
• Extensions
  • Extension:GlobalBlocking — Allows permissioned users to block users/IPs from a network of wikis.
  • Extension:RegexBlock — Allows admins to block IPs and usernames by RegEx.
  • Extension:TorBlock — Automatically blocks TOR IPs.
  • Extension:BlockBatch — Block a whole bunch of users/IPs at once.
  • Extension:AutoProxyBlock — Automatically block known proxy IPs when they attempt to edit.
• Other
  • Extended_blocking — a 2011 proposal to provide admins with the ability to granularly specify which permissions to revoke, either a la cart or via presets.
  • Admin_tools_development — old WMF document with some details of admin tools.