Screenshot
Blocked IP addresses can see the VisualEditor, use it, and are presented with the error in the screenshot when saving.
Reporting distinctly from bug 52004 because the error message and use case are both somewhat different.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52004
Attached:
Change 127840 had a related patch set uploaded by Alex Monk:
Show notice if user is globally blocked
That error message that you do get on saving is also a bug of it's own, patched in Gerrit change 127835
As with the normal local block bug, I'm going to mark this as fixed. We don't block the user from using VE, but there is now a notice warning them when they open VE.
It would be difficult to get all the useful info into some smaller alert() message or similar. Though after thinking about it a bit more we could perhaps use a small VE dialog or something, I am open to suggestions of course - but perhaps that would be better to put in a more general "not able to edit page due to protection/block/etc. dialog error" as this patch simply brings global blocks into line with normal blocks, protection etc.