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This page in a nutshell: A steward may block an IP address from editing all WMF projects to prevent it from causing cross-wiki disruption or to enforce the prohibition against editing from open proxies.

GlobalBlocking is a MediaWiki extension available to stewards to prevent cross-wiki disruption from an IP address or a range of IP addresses. When an IP address or range of IP addresses is globally blocked, they are prevented from editing any public Wikimedia wiki, except for Meta-Wiki, where globally blocked users may appeal the decision.

A current list of globally blocked users is available at Special:GlobalBlockList.

Unblocking and appeal

Local whitelisting — A user who is globally blocked can be unblocked locally (to edit the specific wiki concerned only), by any administrator, at Special:GlobalBlockWhitelist.

Appeal against a global block — users who are globally blocked may appeal the block at Steward requests/Global, on Meta-wiki.

See also

• m:Global blocking