Wikizine/2006-28-tech flash

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Year: 2006  Week:28 Nr.:33 - Tech flash         

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Technical news[edit]
!!!-***Bug 550 is going to be fixed soon***-!!!

Tim Starling announced on the mailing list that very soon, within 24 hours, the way the block function works will change. 

Most important changes:

*Allow blocks on anonymous users only (bug 550)
**-> this means that registered users who are using that IP address still can edit, like users who are on a school network or need to use the proxy of their ISP
* Allow or disallow account creation from blocked IP addresses on a per-block basis

Here you can see a screenshot form the new interface:
*http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/SpecialBlockip.png

For more information read the posting by Tim Starling:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc/27667/focus=27667

And even more reading:
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550

Lets' rejoice, spread the news to all sysops on all 600+ wikis and celebrate this wonderful day!

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Editor(s): Gary Kirk, Walter
E-mail: ihavenews AT wikizine DOT org
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