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Non-SUL-account in at least four projects

User:WiIIy on WheeIs F.U.E.R.D.A.I. Pelican Sh!t was just recently blocked on deWP for his inappropriate name, but something strange occurred with his account. Despite having posted on at least three projects (probably created on Simple) he doesn't have a SUL-Account: Special:CentralAuth/WiIIy_on_WheeIs_F.U.E.R.D.A.I._Pelican_Sh!t. How could this happen? Grüße vom Sänger ♫^(Reden) 12:11, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Sänger the account is suppressed. Globally, it is locked and does exist but the steward chose to have it hidden. It means, you need to know where it edited to see its edits. Other than that, the act of suppression of act is reserved for the worst of account names, ie that account name or any that mocks a person or curse word. 70.21.184.216 12:16, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Suppressed? What's that? Why not a block or ban, the usual stuff? Where are such cases decided? Is there a log for such stuff? Why could he be autocreated on deWP? Grüße vom Sänger ♫^(Reden) 12:20, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

An account is created with bad name. It visits one wiki, and the local account is auto created. In SUL software, when you create an account, the name is reserved but NOT created until you visited, hence auto creation. The account created an account elsewhere and visited deWP, hence "auto creation". No one wants to look at offensive names, thus hides the global account. No need to see bad things. For the hidden locks, it takes time for steward to act on it. Its a global lock because you can't log into it anymore. A steward decides to suppress the global account when he locks it, at his/her discretion. Logs are secret, with only stewards can view it. 70.21.184.216 12:52, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

I've seen far worse names than this one, and afaik there was always a SUL-account there. It's the first time it was not possible to look up, where this bad name came from. So I still don't know why this was done for this not appropriate, but definitely not disgusting or cursing name. And I know how SUL works usually, that's why I came here with this question that stunned us at deWP. Grüße vom Sänger ♫^(Reden) 13:27, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

The account is SUL-ed. You cannot lookup for it on Special:GlobalUsers/Special:CentralAuth because it's "hidden" though (hidden == removed from Special:GlobalUsers and not lookup-able via Special:CentralAuth for non-stewards). Regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 14:03, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Might be a good idea to document this somewhere. StevenJ81 (talk) 14:32, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Yes, I still fail to see the benefit from this clandestine operation, that doesn't work properly, as he could still go anywhere. Why not a well documented global block? Why must admins not know about this user, once he pops up at some wiki? Grüße vom Sänger ♫^(Reden) 16:14, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

Because trolls pick names like this to gather attention, and hiding the username when locking is a form of denying them recognition. He could not "still go anywhere" - the account is locked so the user can't log in. – Ajraddatz (talk) 16:16, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

He came to deWP and created his account there. OK, he still got gesperrt there as well, but only after creation, an nobody @deWP was aware of any block or such. At least nobody said anything about that. Grüße vom Sänger ♫^(Reden) 16:45, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

His account was autocreated on dewiki at 23:56 UTC on May 1, and was locked + hidden at 00:08 UTC on May 2 (after creating the dewiki account). It might be worth changing the hidden status of global accounts so that local admins can still see it was locked, but the entire locked/hidden/suppressed workflow needs updating and it probably won't happen because the WMF has no resources to spend on improving the steward workflow. – Ajraddatz (talk) 16:53, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

As the deWP-admin who blocked him: Thanks for the explanation. When I tried to block him, I got a note that he’s already blocked globally. Since I couldn’t find this lock in the log I assumed a software malfunction and blocked him locally – just in case … Suppression of the name as an explanation didn’t came to my mind :-) Regards --Schniggendiller (talk) 16:49, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

@Sänger: Yes, he created his account in deWP, but probably before he was locked globally. Now he won’t be able to create this name in any WMF wiki. Regards --Schniggendiller (talk) 16:53, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

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Question for help

I have some issues that I would like som answers too.

What are necessary steps to take before asking for help from stewards to intervene on another project?

We have big issues with copyvio, but that user doesn't get blocked. In stead he has discussed and discussed, and still doesn't understand what is allowed or not. I found an article on Danish Wikipedia (DAWP) that largely was copied from a Danish Newspaper a good 15 years or so ago. (not only a clear vilation of copyright, but also Wikipedia politics)

In over 10 years this user has copy/pasted thousands of articles from da:Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon and sv:Nordisk Familjebok (which are online on www.runeberg.org).

Although DAWP allows for copy/pasting (which I deem to be a stupid idea) from very old works (old language/style/POV) which seem to be public domain, not all the writers were dead before 1947, and therefor those articles aren't in the public domain. Although I have argued on many occasions that this practice is flawed, and I have raised the issue about copyrights on several pages, the users discussion page, the "Village Pump" and "Administrator Request for Action" all I got was to be deemed "to have no clue about copyrights" or that I am irritating.

In fact though, I seem to be one of the few who has been right as other users are going through this users long list of articles with a tooth-comb. Yes, several articles have been deleted already.

I have explained this user that if he wants to use the material, he needs to write it in his own words. He himself has declared that he cannot go away from the formulated scentences, which I deem a problem. If he wants to use it, he needs to cite it as:

Samlmonsens Konversationsleksikon says: "xxxxxxxx"<ref>writer, titel, Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon, 1930, pp. x</ref>

If he just wants to write in own words what Salmonsens says, he can just refer to that source by <ref>writer, titel, Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon, 1930, pp. x</ref>

But this user has written thousands of articles with no references what so ever, and under == Literature == he wrote the source. He has copied text between <!-- --> only for months later to remove them under "small edit" and "m" (minor edit) so it to be noticed. That is deliberate action, knowingly breaking the law!

After 3 months of discussions with him and the administrators, the result is that they are irritated with me and that I should stay away from this user because "I am stressing him"! He gets no warnings, only an advise to start cleaning up in the mess he made, which he doesn't follow, without any consequence. He still does all kinds of other edits, discusses in lengths, and what he does in "cleaning up" is nowhere satisfactory.

The only admin who understood the problem, has been sidelined. There was a request to ban this user. It had several supporters, but 3 admins spoke against it, mainly because they deem that the problem with this user comes from "other sources" - which is pointing towards me. So in this they gave this user carte blanche to go on as usual, because he is untouchable. The admin who has been checking this users articles and his attitude towards "cleaning up" is ready to give up his admin rights as he feels that the other admins protect that user rather than protecting Wikipedia.

The problem basically is that he is respected as a big contributor, and they know that if thousands of articles are being deleted, we will be even smaller than years ago.

There are basically 4 users who have been occupied with sorting out and finding out these copyright-violations. 1 admin and tree users. All have been worked against. We have been making tables with comparisons from the Wikipedia article and the source article, to show how much the texts are alike. But still this user doesn't get it, and we ("his enemies") get blamed for irritating him.

So I need help to make these admins understand that this user is a danger for Wikipedia, unwilling to conform to basic copyright law. And all these articles (many over 50.000 bytes big and "deemed promising articles") should be deleted on spot, but they rather try to keep as many as possible by rewriting them (just reformulate basically) which is not good enough!

I have mentioned the experiences that the Dutch Wikipedia (NLWP) has had over the years, and how they have handled these cases. But all I get is: This is not NLWP, but DAWP. They don't even want to ask the administrators from NLWP for assistance!

So you can read that I am frustrated with these admins, See the page in my sandbox her: da:Bruger:Rodejong/sandkasse12! See the page with all the relevant articles her: da:Wikipedia-diskussion:Ressourcebibliotek/Forfattere i DBL og SK/huskeliste!

Please help!? Kind regards,  Rodejong  💬 ✉️  15:14, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Just for context: There was a discussion to permaban the user that RJ is referring to in his post, but there wasn't the necessary amount of support per local policy. I can't speak properly to the copyright issue since I wasn't involved in those discussions, but I will say that our policy on copyvio is quite clear (remove it) and my impression is that the reason for the slow action here is the amount of articles in question, and because some of them have mutated into mixes of copied content and regular user contributions. InsaneHacker (talk) 15:35, 8 May 2018 (UTC) (dawp admin)

Adding: da:Wikipedia:Anmodning om administratorassistance/Rmir2 og Copyvio and da:Wikipedia:Afstemninger/Bandlysning af Bruger:Rmir2!

It's true. InsaneHacker wasn't an administrater yet. InsaneHacker is right that our policies are correct, but the problem is that administrators have ignored that.

These articles should have been deleted instantly, and if they want to, re written from the start. They have yet to acknowledge this! Kind regards,  Rodejong  💬 ✉️  15:45, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

I just want to add, that in the decision not to ban the user, 3 admins voted for, 3 admin voted against, 1 admin was neutral, and 14 admins did not vote. Also, this user is neither the only nor biggest contributor of articles there has been copied from www.runeberg.org.--Kjeldjoh (talk) 06:26, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Korrekt, but he is the only active user at the moment because the other two stopped editing all together.Kind regards,  Rodejong  💬 ✉️  09:18, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

There are several unsubstantiated assertion in Rodejongs "Question for help". Please be careful to investigate any assertions from this user before taking any actions. - Savfisk (talk) 10:10, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Unsubstantiated? DAWP is a complete documentation of what I have represented here. And you are the one who voted against banning this user, because you blame this users behaviour on me! -> da:Wikipedia:Afstemninger/Bandlysning_af_Bruger:Rmir2#Støtter_ikke_bandlysning:

Med de regler vi har nu, bliver denne stemme afgørende for bandlysningen og det er selvfølgelig en svær situation at stå i. Min stemme er ikke en støtte til Rmir2, men en støtte at tingene skal foregå på en ordentlig måde på da-wiki. Brugeren er uden tvivl årsag til mange problemer på da-wiki og jeg har selv søgt at påvirke brugere til at agere mere hensigtsmæssig i diskussioner, men guderne skal vide at det er han langt fra ene om at udvise den adfærd. "Slaget om copy-vio" har været kæmpet fuldstændig hensynsløst af Rodejong uden at nogen har grebet ind. At en bruger der nylig har overstået 3 måneders blokering og en frivillig pause på nogenlunde samme længde skal have lov at massakrere så en vigtig en diskussion som copy-vio, og at det så i sidste ende munder ud i bandlysning af en anden bruger er mig ubegribelig. Med den giftige atmosfære som har været på da-wiki på det seneste kan jeg ikke støtte en bandlysning, for det er umulig at skelne skidt fra kanel. Jeg skal nemlig ikke kunne afvise at Rmir2 har udvist en adfærd som kunne berettige en bandlysning, men på grund af al røgen, er jeg blevet så meget i tvivl at jeg er nødt til at stemme i mod. Jeg synes bestemt at Rmir2 bør ændre sin adfærd i forhold til kommende redigeringer, særlig i forhold til de punkter som er blevet belyst af InsaneHacker, og sker det ikke bør Rmir2 først modtage en længerevarende blokering inden han evt. bandlyses. Jeg vil bestemt ikke være afvisende overfor en fremtidig bandlysning, såfremt brugeren ikke retter ind. - Savfisk (diskussion) 3. maj 2018, 17:35 (CEST)

With the rules we have now, this will be the deciding vote for banning and this is a ofcourse a difficult situation to be in. My vote is not a support for Rmir2, but a support as to how things should be handled in an orderly way on da-wiki. The user is without doubt a cause to many problems on da-wiki and I have myself tried to influence users to react in a more meaningful way in discussions, but god knows that he is far from alone in this behaviour. "The battle on copy-vio" has been fought completely recklessly by Rodejong without anyone intervening. That a user who has recently sat out a 3 month long block and a self chosen break on approximately the same length gets permission to massacre such a vital discussion on copy-vio, and that this in the end ends up with banning another user is unbelievable to me. With this toxic atmosphere that has been on da-wiki recently, I can not support a banning of a user, for it is impossible so differ between dirt and cinnamon (proverb to state that he can not make ot what is right or wrong). I am just unable to reject that Rmir2 has shown a behaviour, which could justify a ban, but because of all the smoke, I am in so much doubt that I need to vote against. I definitely find that Rmir2 should change his behaviour compared to coming edits, especially compared to the points InsaneHacker shed light on, if that doesn't happen, Rmir2 should receive a timely block first before he might be banned. I would definitely not be waving the possibility away for a future ban, if the user doesn't comply. -

The request for a ban was not about other users, only Rmir2. Were his actions reason enough to ban him. You admit to have no clue, but you state that Rmir2 has caused many problems. But you state that he is far from alone.

Then you state that I have behaved recklessly. You call it a battle. Well that is correct. I stand behind my statement that all copyvio has to be deleted. But how much I tried to convince Rmir2 to change his perspective on Copyrights, he refused. He wants his articles to remain, and be rewritten by changing some words and moving around some sentences and admits that he can't remove himself from the original texts. Even while the request for a ban was undergoing, he didn't change his behaviour.

You than start attacking me, because I have been blocked for three months last summer. and I stayed away 3 months more because I was to involved with the Templates. So that had nothing to do with Rmir, or these discussions about Copyright, as I was the one who found that Rmir was copy/pasting en mass copyrighted materials onto Wikipedia. But did that alarm you? NO you stayed away from it all, just like most of the admins have done. You don't take any responsibility. You didn't read anything of the discussions that went on for three months (February through April). If there was a reaction, than it was hacking on me in stead. So sorry if I don't deem your answer here as neutral. You are the cause that we still have trouble with this user who thinks he knows all about Copyright and thinks that losing the content is worse than having copyright violations on DAWP.

It's really not strange that several people are complaining about the admins. One admin stepped up to block a fellow admin because of his power-trip-behaviour. But in sted that Admin is taken his admin rights away. These admins don't react well to criticism.

It must also be said that Admin Savisk has blocked me twice, and had to change his decision because of (what he self called) "voldsom kritik" meaning fierce criticism. They have lost sight on what is really important here. In stead of discussing things they don't know about, they should look closely in to the matter to see what really is going on, listen to the one administrator who spend hours after hours going through Rmir2's edits, and concluded that this user hadn't changed his behaviour (enough) even while the request for a ban, and the discussion on the Village Pump ahead of that request was taking place.

So thanks to Savfisk we still have to argue with this user, who is not afraid of removing copyvio-template from an article if he deems he has rewritten it enough after his own judgement, and when reverted, just reverts again. I have my flaws, surely. But those are on matters of taste and interpretation about my talk-page, something which is no-where to compare with the danger Rmir2 puts Wikipedia in when the Media would get a snif of it. They would have a field day racking down on Wikipedia. That is what I am trying to prevent here. Kind regards,  Rodejong  💬 ✉️  11:15, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Comment How and why do you believe that stewards can and should be intervene (see the scope and role of stewards at the link prior to replying). If this is a functioning community with administrators and bureaucrats then stewards have no role to play beyond the technical. Issues with administrators should be addressed and resolved on the wiki in question.  — billinghurst sDrewth 10:27, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

billinghurst: as I explained in my last comment: I have tried to resolve this on-wiki. But the admins don't get it. I need help from someone in the Wikimedia/Stewards who could explain the admins why Copyright violations need to be addressed promptly. DAWP has no Arbitration commission, who could intervene, and when Admins who have no-one above them totally ignore that a user is ignoring the copy-right-laws, (mind that since it has been discovered 3 months ago) and still is, he has not been blocked once to make him understand. He has been treated with silk gloves! It brings shame on Wikipedia! Kind regards,  Rodejong  💬 ✉️  11:22, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

I do get it and you aren't listening, and I particularly pointed you to the role of stewards. In the circumstances that I expressed, the individual community has to resolve it, there is not a role for stewards to intervene in your matter. There may be a role for the greater community to play, so go to Commons and seek it. Stewards are not a universal authority or panacea, stop looking at that avenue.  — billinghurst sDrewth 11:29, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

It's not correct that admins have not done anything, however, Rodejong continues to repeat himself over and over again, and does not listen to what others are saying ---Zoizit (talk) 11:30, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

To repeat in different language what User:billinghurst said: Stewards' actions are nearly always ministerial in nature. Because of the types of tools they control, they are required to be highly trusted. But in truth, they are not usually supposed to impose their judgment on their actions; they are supposed to act strictly according to the rules, regardless of their personal feelings on a matter.

The principle exceptions to that rule have to do with potentially slanderous, libelous or otherwise offensive content, when (and only when) speedy removal is important. Even at that, if there are local sysops that exist, stewards are supposed to wait long enough to allow local authority to act first.

In the WMF system, if the sysops will not act, and if the content is not slanderous, libelous, or offensive, there is little that can be done immediately. You could contact the WMF Legal team to see if they want to do something. There may be exceptions, but usually Legal will not act until and unless someone files a legal complaint. Then they will intervene by office action. But until that point, WMF's usual policy is to allow the communities to govern themselves autonomously. StevenJ81 (talk) 17:00, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

I will strictly warn user:Rodejong against misuse of my signature in his own translation of my voting on Danish Wikipedia. You can not pick and chose rules which you want other users to follow strictly and then ignore other rules yourselves. - Savfisk (talk) 18:10, 10 May 2018 (UTC)

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• @SPoore (WMF): hi, when I select a calendar on Special:Block and then choose a day other than this day, for example tomorrow, after that I can't select again this day, it's not selectable anymore. I can select this day again if I change the seconds or minutes to future. But I think it's better to make always this day selectable and if the time is in past just give a warning. Stryn (talk) 13:42, 4 May 2018 (UTC)

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So you actually can pick "today" again, what you can't pick is something before "now", so if you pick another day, it defaults the time to "now", but then 1 second later you can't pick "today" because of the time part being in the past. Just FYI. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:28, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

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• Hello @SPoore (WMF): at the calendar top, appear for example (May 2018), hope if we can click on May and all months appear after that, then to choose on of them, or click on 2018 and the same thing happens (you can found this feature on Windows 10 as I know), but it good now that we can write months abbreviations and years. Best --Alaa :)..! 16:11, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
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OK, so the new version of MediaWiki is being rolled out but on a mobile phone the desktop view now looks like a bad version of the mobile view. Is there any way to switch back to the desktop view? I can't see anything that would do it in Preferences. Cheers. Green Giant (talk) 21:13, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

What browser you are using? There is a link at the bottom of each page where you can switch to desktop mode. If you already chide it then it's your browser settings or the web address (check you don't use the emobile site). Stryn (talk) 14:00, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Also, with "the new version of MediaWiki is being rolled out", do you mean mw:MediaWiki 1.32/wmf.5? I don't see any "new layout". On the other hand, redirection to the mobile site is mostly handled by code which resides in operations/puppet rather than MediaWiki (AFAIK). --Nemo 16:00, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

On my mobile I use Safari and the desktop version no longer looks like it used to. It looks like a hybrid between the desktop and mobile versions. Clicking the desktop link at the bottom doesn’t switch to the classic desktop. There are small icons at the top with menus for each of the bars that I had before e.g. one with links for userpage, talkpage, contrive, etc. It changed when the new version was rolled out over the last couple of days. Green Giant (talk) 19:24, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Are you using the MonoBook skin? It was recently converted to a responsive design. Your mobile browser should have a "use desktop version" option that should give you the desktop experience back. Legoktm (talk) 05:51, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

@Legoktm: Yes, I was using Monobook. I’ve tried both the link at the foot of the page (next to the cookie statement link), and the "Request Desktop Site" accessible from the app itself. The latter one switches between the actual mobile version and this pseudo-mobile version. Of the other skins, only Vector and Modern give the real desktop version. I can live with changing to a different skin but I liked Monobook the best and would prefer to continue using it. Cheers. Green Giant (talk) 12:59, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

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Data Protection Officer

Has WMF already a Data Protection Officer? Keeping in mind the new GDPR-regulation in the European Union as from 25-05-2018. Taraseq (talk) 13:47, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

I don't believe the Wikimedia Foundation is obligated to designate a data protection officer. This is only required in the circumstances mentioned in Article 37 of the GDPR, namely (1) where the processing is carried out by a public authority; (2) where the core activities consist of processing operations which, by virtue of their nature, scope and/or purpose require regular or systematic monitoring of data subjects on a large scale; or (3) where the core activities consist of processing on a large scale of special categories of data and personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences. See the Article 29 Working Party's Guidelines on Data Protection Officers for more information (wp243rev.01). None of these circumstances seem to apply to the WMF. The WP29 does recommend "that controllers and processors document the internal analysis carried out to determine whether or not a DPO is to be appointed, in order to be able to demonstrate that the relevant factors have been taken into account properly". Jeroen N (talk) 18:12, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

The second point is a bit unclear in my eyes. Perhaps WMF legal can tell us more. In my opion it's one of the core tasks. Because without vandalism fighters you can't run a wiki. Taraseq (talk) 19:59, 23 May 2018 (UTC)

I believe it's perfectly possible to run a wiki without people regularly or systematically "fighting vandalism", but in any case it's up to the Foundation to carry out an internal analysis to determine whether or not they need to designate a data protection officer. The Foundation is yet to make its privacy policy GDPR compliant. This should also contain a DPO's contact information if any was designated. If you believe the Foundation should designate a DPO and they haven't, then you can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Jeroen N (talk) 09:03, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Simply no. Without active stewards every wikis are in trouble. Stryn (talk) 13:57, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

I fail to see the relevance of your reply, but if you believe the existence of stewards is a reason for the Foundation to designate a DPO, then don't hesitate to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority. That's the last thing I'll say on this topic (as I said, this is something for the Foundation to conduct an internal analysis on; I don't believe us discussing it any further will do any good). Jeroen N (talk) 14:10, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

CheckUsers do this, so or we do not have CheckUsers anymore or there is going to be a kind of SuperCheckUser who takes the role of DPO:

From ARTICLE 29 DATA PROTECTION WORKING PARTY

Under the GDPR, it is mandatory for certain controllers and processors to designate a DPO.2 This will be the case for all public authorities and bodies (irrespective of what data they process), and for other organisations that - as a core activity - monitor individuals systematically and on a large scale, or that process special categories of personal data on a large scale.

Disclaimer: IANAL Klaas `Z4␟` V:  08:37, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

So, Wikimedia Foundation didn't even start to prepare for GDPR? It's a kind of financial suicide. Currently Wikimedia projects are far from being GDPR-compliant: [1] and all the trolls can sue us. 185.20.63.25 16:05, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

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Expansions

• Fold3 – Available content has more than doubled, now including new military collections from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
• Oxford University Press – The Scholarship collection now includes Electronic Enlightenment
• Alexander Street Press – Women and Social Movements Library now available
• Cambridge University Press – Orlando Collection now available

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First designs for Special:Block with Granular blocks

The Anti-Harassment Tools team enlisted the assistance of Alex Hollender, a User Experience designer at Wikimedia Foundation to create wireframe designs of the Special:Block with the Granular block feature included. Our first wireframes are based on the discussions on the Granular block talk page, Wishlist proposal, and Phabricator to date.

Because the Special:Block page is already at its limits with its current layout and we would like to propose a new organized layout for Special:Block. This will make it easier to add the granular blocking (page, category, namespace, etc) and whatever is to come in the future. All of the same functionality is available on this new layout, but in a more organized, step-by-step process.

Take a look at the wireframe and leave us your feedback. For the Anti-Harassment Tools team, SPoore (WMF) (talk) , Trust and Safety Specialist, Community health initiative (talk) 19:19, 31 May 2018 (UTC)