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Do not block email access by default for local blocks mirrored from global ones
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Summary

GlobalBlocking allows stewards to optionally mirror a given global block to the central wiki (Meta on WMF Production) by checking a box that says "Also block the given IP address locally on this wiki" on Special:GlobalBlock.

However these mirrored blocks always come with "email disabled"by default, so users can't use our Special:Contact/stewards form and reach out for help.

Since blocking email access is not always required, I think it'd be better if we could have a new checkbox, unchecked by default, to let the blocking steward decide whether that local block should bear the email ban or not.

Thank you.

Event Timeline

Change 825405 had a related patch set uploaded (by AntiCompositeNumber; author: AntiCompositeNumber):

[mediawiki/extensions/GlobalBlocking@master] SpecialGlobalBlock: Add checkbox for local email access

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/825405

Change 825405 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/GlobalBlocking@master] SpecialGlobalBlock: Add checkbox for local email access

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/825405

Tks4Fish assigned this task to AntiCompositeNumber.