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MediaWiki:Globalblocking-blocked should have a variable for the user's IP address
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On Wikipedia, we some times get reuqests from registered users to deal with global IP blocks. Unfortunately, these users get a message which doesn't give their IP address or their block log entry, and we can't solve that problem because that information isn't one of the variables available to us. In the attached URL, you can see a user trying to help us find the block - wth local blocks it's easier, since the block screen gives them all the information we need to find the block.


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Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Lionratz&diff=prev&oldid=399647336

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:24 PM
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True. Also when stewards receive requests from users affected by global IP blocks we have no way to know which block is affecting them.

Without knowing the existance of this bug I reported recently this at translatewiki http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/MediaWiki:Globalblocking-blocked_modification_request

Regards.

Parameter $5 added in r96267

It might take quite some time before it is updated on Wikipedia. If wanted, this revision can be merged with Wikimedia wikis.