Global blocking

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Global blocking is the technical function of the blocking of an IP address or range from editing all Wikimedia projects. It is done through an existing extension. The feature is currently only available to Stewards.

[edit] Global blocking guidelines

These are guidelines; while exceptions exist, these are the general rules.

• Global blocks must 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 being used abusively on multiple projects such as spamming links or forum spamming, and which are not being extensively used for legitimate purposes.

• Global blocks should be placed with the lowest expiry possible, while still remaining effective. All global blocks should have an expiry.
• Global blocks should, wherever practicable and sensible, be placed with the anonymous only flag on.
• Global blocks may be requested at Steward requests/Global.
• Global blocks do not apply on Meta, so they may be appealed at Steward requests/Global.

[edit] Global IP block exemption

Accounts which are "global IP block exempt" are exempted from these global blocks. They are however still vulnerable to IP and IP range blocks made locally on individual wikis. To apply for global IP block exemption see Steward requests/Global.

[edit] See also

• Global block logs