Last modified: 2013-06-18 13:36:29 UTC
After a user was blocked with auto-IP block, two similar log messages were generated, the later of which is an autoblock message. The wiki block the IP address for a day, while the user per his/her name was blocked for months, i.e. considerably longer. Since autoblocks may be seen in relation to dynamically assigned IP-addresses, this may be a good decision. However, if the admin selected a consideralby shorter period than a day, an autoblock of 1 day would be inappropriate. If that is automatically taken care of (which I did not find a sample for), then this is not-a-bug. On the other hand, I'd see it as a feature request, of low priority though, to make autoblock durations selectable, too, since at times, you know about the typical lifetime of connections, a specific provider has in specific ones of his IP ranges. Here are the log entries FYI: * 09:19, 20 January 2009, Purodha (Talk | contribs | block) blocked #147 (expires 09:19, 21 January 2009, account creation blocked) (Automatich jesperrt. Ding IP_Adress wood vör kootem vun däm Metmaacher „Black gangsta panther“ jebruch. Dä es jesperrt woode wäje: „<i>hät motwellesch Shtuß en Sigge erin jeschrevve: http://ksh.wikipedia.org/w/in) (unblock) * 09:19, 20 January 2009, Purodha (Talk | contribs | block) blocked Black gangsta panther (Talk | contribs) (expires 09:19, 20 July 2009, account creation blocked) (hät motwellesch Shtuß en Sigge erin jeschrevve: http://ksh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php title=Barack_Obama&diff=1027385&oldid=1026653) (unblock | change block)
The unblock aspect is bug 5445. The autoblock exceeding the IP block duration is a bug.
Does the autoblock still exceed the main block in any cases now? (MW 1.18)
Needs testing, Block::delete has a call to delete also the autoblocks of the block (was part of bug 5445)
Blocks shorter than 24 hours will now have autoblock expire together with the main block.