Last modified: 2006-08-31 03:56:54 UTC
I had been thinking; since the log of a page's protection has been added to the Special:Protect page, would it be possible to add the block log for a user to the Special:Blockip page? I posted this as a question to Aevar's talk page, but no response. This is (I think) my first Bugzilla bug, so tell me if I've done anything wrong. Thanks!
*** Bug 4435 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Update: This one's going down as part of a series of improvements I'm making to the blocking interface, which should be completed within the week. I'd gotten distracted from it.
(In reply to comment #2) Rob, has this gotten anywhere? I understand you devs are under a lot of pressure, but has this been considered/coded at all? Thanks for your time. -Mysekurity
Anyone? Anyone at all???
I don't think it's possible, as the user name is just another field in the block page, unlike the protection page.
Added in SVN trunk, r16287.
It *is* possible, but the log fragment won't show up in a lot of cases. When calling Special:Blockip/Evil_User, however, it will, and I guess that could come in useful. It'll also be thrown up when the block criteria are invalid.
Wait, so is this happening or not? I can deal with it not coming up in a few cases, but it's one less tab for Firefox to keep open and suck down memory on (amongst other things, including but not limited to, allowing me to remember to check it). I think it would be incredibly useful to have Special:Blockip/Bad_Guy have the log (as I rarely type in the ip or username, but instead use a handy link to deal with it for me), and it would be great if that is at all possible. In any event, keep me updated on any descision, and thanks.
It has happened, see comment 6. Special:Blockip/Foo will show block log fragments relevant to user Foo.
For clarity: it may or may not have gone live by the time of your comment. The software used by Wikipedia et al. is resynced on a pretty regular basis, so you won't have long to wait. If it hasn't gone live already, it should be up within hours, I think: aren't the syncs daily? Certainly it will be live within a couple of days.
ohhh... thank you. I checked comment six, as well as tested Wikipedia, and the change hadn't yet been implimented. Thanks to all involved, and keep up the good work.
