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blocking users for various reasons (spam-only account, bad username, vandalism-only account, returned blockned users, ...) is the most common type of using Special:Block. I did a quick query and among all the blocks in commons in 2025 so far, 3451 were full indef blocks and 889 were non-indef blocks of users. This means ~80% of uses of Special:Block for logged-in users is just for a full indef block. This is going to get much higher with introduction of temporary accounts since of limited block of IPs, a lot more will happen on indef blocking of the temp accounts. But the UX of an indef block is not nice. As a person who does admin actions regularly, I'm not super happy and the new design made it slightly worse. Some suggestions that came up during talk with @JSengupta-WMF in Wikimania were this: - Instead of having indef as length in the drop down (and at the bottom of it), add it as a radio button for quick access. - Split reasons for block (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Ipbreason-dropdown) to two. One for indef blocks and one for the rest. And change the drop down for reasons to indef one when the radio button is selected. - Many of reasons in that page are for indef blocks and many of the don't apply in indef blocks (that's why there is a "Vandalism" reason and also "Vandalism-only account" reason). - This split helps me find the appropriate reason greatly. In Wikidata for example, there are 23 different reasons and roughly half of them are not related to indef blocks.

Blocking users for various reasons (spam-only account, bad username, vandalism-only account, returned blocked users, ...) is the most common type of using Special:Block. I did a quick query and among all the blocks in commons in 2025 so far, 3451 were full indef blocks and 889 were non-indef blocks of users. This means ~80% of uses of Special:Block for logged-in users is just for a full indef block. This is going to get much higher with introduction of temporary accounts since of limited block of IPs, a lot more will happen on indef blocking of the temp accounts. But the UX of an indef block is not nice. As a person who does admin actions regularly, I'm not super happy and the new design made it slightly worse. Some suggestions that came up during talk with @JSengupta-WMF in Wikimania were this: - Instead of having indef as length in the drop down (and at the bottom of it), add it as a radio button for quick access. - Split reasons for block (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Ipbreason-dropdown) to two. One for indef blocks and one for the rest. And change the drop down for reasons to indef one when the radio button is selected. - Many of reasons in that page are for indef blocks and many of the don't apply in indef blocks (that's why there is a "Vandalism" reason and also "Vandalism-only account" reason). - This split helps me find the appropriate reason greatly. In Wikidata for example, there are 23 different reasons and roughly half of them are not related to indef blocks.

bBlocking users for various reasons (spam-only account, bad username, vandalism-only account, returned blockned users, ...) is the most common type of using Special:Block. I did a quick query and among all the blocks in commons in 2025 so far, 3451 were full indef blocks and 889 were non-indef blocks of users. This means ~80% of uses of Special:Block for logged-in users is just for a full indef block. This is going to get much higher with introduction of temporary accounts since of limited block of IPs, a lot more will happen on indef blocking of the temp accounts. But the UX of an indef block is not nice. As a person who does admin actions regularly, I'm not super happy and the new design made it slightly worse. Some suggestions that came up during talk with @JSengupta-WMF in Wikimania were this: - Instead of having indef as length in the drop down (and at the bottom of it), add it as a radio button for quick access. - Split reasons for block (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Ipbreason-dropdown) to two. One for indef blocks and one for the rest. And change the drop down for reasons to indef one when the radio button is selected. - Many of reasons in that page are for indef blocks and many of the don't apply in indef blocks (that's why there is a "Vandalism" reason and also "Vandalism-only account" reason). - This split helps me find the appropriate reason greatly. In Wikidata for example, there are 23 different reasons and roughly half of them are not related to indef blocks.