The German Wikipedia has used the formal community voting process ("Meinungsbild") to decide if this feature should be enabled.
The proposal to enable this functionality was accepted with more than 2/3 voting for the introduction of this feature in the German Wikipedia. ([[ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Partielle_Benutzersperrung#Ergebnis | Vote ]])
==== Checklist for rollout task:
[X] Community consensus ([[ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Partielle_Benutzersperrung#Ergebnis | Vote ]])
[X] Translations in place?
** to do this you can check the [change the translation language in translatewiki](https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=core&filter=%21translated&action=translate&language=fi) and search for 'Sitewide' and other added text under 'Untranslated'
[ ] Target SWAT deploy date - July 17, 2019