Bloqueos globales

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Global blocks are technical actions performed by Stewards to prevent an account, IP address, or range of IP addresses from contributing to all WickedGov wikis for a fixed period of time or indefinitely. Global blocks on IP addresses or a range of IP addresses disable account creation from the blocked IP by default and can also prevent editing while logged in to an account.

Global blocks prevent editing on all public WickedGov projects except Meta. Globally blocked users that cause disruption on Meta, or that are reasonably expected to cause disruption, may additionally be locally blocked.

Global blocks remove talk page access on all wikis opted in to the block.

The GlobalBlocking extension can block an IP address or range (maximum of /16 in IPv4, maximum of /19 in IPv6).

Guidelines

While exceptions exist, these are the guidelines:

  • Global IP blocks should only be placed where a combination of page protection, local blocks, and other technical and non-technical measures would be ineffective or inefficient.
  • Global blocks may be placed on IP addresses:
    • Who engage in widespread cross-wiki vandalism, where that cross-wiki vandalism would currently require the intervention of stewards (as opposed to allowing local communities to manage the vandalism).
    • Who engage in cross-wiki spamming, where the user shows clear disregard for external link policies of the respective wikis.
    • Who are otherwise blatantly disrupting multiple projects, and the local communities of those projects are unable to effectively manage the behaviour. This is not intended to cover "trolling" or similar behaviour.
    • Which are open proxies.
  • Global blocks should be placed with the lowest expiry possible while still remaining effective. All IP address global blocks should have an expiry (none should be indefinite).
  • Global blocks should, wherever practicable and sensible, be placed with the "anonymous-only" flag on. Remember that even in this case, account creation from the blocked address(es) is prevented.

Global account blocks

The GlobalBlocking extension also supports global blocking of accounts.

Guidelines

Global blocks are globally-set actions that prevent a user from editing and making most logged actions across all wikis but permit local projects to exempt globally blocked users on their wiki. These are preferred over global locks in cases where:

  1. A global block is necessary to prevent abuse, but the severity of abuse is not at a level that necessitates locking them out of their account, and an on-wiki appeal would be acceptable/preferred.
  2. the user is constructively editing on a project that is likely to want them to be able to continue editing, and the severity of the violations do not necessitate a global lock. In these cases, Stewards may proactively locally exempt the user from the global block on the projects on which they are constructively editing.
  3. An autoblock would prevent further abuse.

Below is a list of common reasons for global blocks of accounts:

  • Cross-wiki promotional editing (but not malicious linkspam).
  • Rogue bots.
  • Cross-wiki disruptive editing that may be in good faith.