Talk:No open proxies/Archives/2013
Latest comment: 11 years ago by Nemo bis in topic Instructions on appeals and translations
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Instructions on appeals and translations
- This page should use the Translate extension, it's quite an important one. Volunteers?
- As I said in the context of legitimate Tor edits, I think this should contain some generic instructions valid for all projects on how to request appeals (unblocks, especially for broad IP ranges) or exceptions (IP exempt status). Most stewards link NOP in their block reasons, and it gets about 2000 visits per month (3000 in total).[1] [2] The best way is probably the stewards' OTRS queue, unless this proves to bring too much traffic/work for them; depending on the nature of the block and on the project of interest (and its policies), stewards could then act on the request or forward it to the appropriate queue/mailing list/on-wiki request page/agent/whatever.
--Nemo 12:28, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
Support Yes to translate extension and to handle block appeals via OTRS (provides better privacy for users; which are not forced to publicy disclose the IP they're editting from in order find the blocked IP/Range). I don't expect we'll be that flooded but given that all stewards are now entitled at least to have access to the stewards queue, we potentially have more helping hands. In order to set this page for translation I'd like to improve it a bit first though. Best regards. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 14:29, 18 February 2013 (UTC)- Support--210.72.12.105 15:14, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
- Support Per MarcoAurelio. Trijnsteltalk 22:55, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
- Support Both suggestions seem reasonable. πr2 (t • c) 23:02, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
As nobody stepped up yet, I just applied the consensus above adding a process. In short it just says to ask stewards and to include the necessary information; it will be up to stewards to decide what requests to accept or not and (if they wish) to later add clearer criteria etc. If nobody objects in a few days we can mark the page for translation (I've already prepared it, so if someone else wants to mark it and import old translations I won't feel offended). --Nemo 14:50, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
- I've also submitted a patch to link it from the MediaWiki error messages to blocked users, see bugzilla:42231. --Nemo 17:24, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
- The change is live and working on all Wikipedias as of yesterday, 18 UTC. --Nemo 10:13, 4 October 2013 (UTC)