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Purging stale temporary user blocks
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I noticed temporary users who have been blocked indefinite are still listed under active blocks even though such accounts expire currently after 90 days and can not be reused. This is just going to fill up the list of active blocks so I propose having the MediaWiki software get a task that once per day automatically unblocks any temporary accounts that have expired.

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Infrastruktur created this task.Thu, Jul 30, 5:13 PM
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JJMC89 added a project: Community-consensus-needed.Thu, Jul 30, 5:15 PM
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Some projects want them to be (and remain) indefinitely blocked.

Dreamy_Jazz awarded a token.Thu, Jul 30, 5:22 PM
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+1 to JJMC89. If this is for WMF wikis, then maybe this could be a feature each wiki asks for after community consensus is reached to have the feature

Johannnes89 subscribed.Thu, Jul 30, 6:58 PM
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Pppery closed this task as Declined.Wed, Aug 5, 3:38 PM
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I see a consensus against doing this. Let's close.

Wikis that want this are welcome to run their own local bots for it.

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