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title="Special:MyLanguage/API:Action API">API</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/API:Action_API" class="mw-redirect" title="API:Action API"> </a></span>, <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Database_layout" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Database layout">Database</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Database_layout" title="Manual:Database layout"> </a></span> </td></tr><tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#description" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Description</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#description" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td>Allows IP addresses and accounts to be blocked on multiple wikis</td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#username" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Author(s)</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#username" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/User:Werdna" title="User:Werdna">Andrew Garrett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Trust_and_Safety_Product" title="Trust and Safety Product">Trust and Safety Product Team</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Compatibility#mediawiki_extensions" title="Special:MyLanguage/Compatibility">Compatibility policy</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Compatibility#mediawiki_extensions" title="Compatibility"> </a></span></b></td> <td>Snapshots releases along with MediaWiki. Master is not backward compatible.</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#mediawiki" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension"><b>MediaWiki</b></a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#mediawiki" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></td> <td>1.39 and later </td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#needs-updatephp" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension"><abbr title="'php update.php' needed after installation"><b>Database changes</b></abbr></a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#needs-updatephp" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></td> <td>Yes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgVirtualDomainsMapping" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgVirtualDomainsMapping">Virtual domain</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:$wgVirtualDomainsMapping" title="Manual:$wgVirtualDomainsMapping"> </a></span></b></td> <td>virtual-globalblocking</td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#table1" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Tables</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#table1" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GlobalBlocking/globalblocks_table" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GlobalBlocking/globalblocks table">globalblocks</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Extension:GlobalBlocking/globalblocks_table" title="Extension:GlobalBlocking/globalblocks table"> </a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GlobalBlocking/global_block_whitelist_table" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GlobalBlocking/global block whitelist table">global_block_whitelist</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Extension:GlobalBlocking/global_block_whitelist_table" title="Extension:GlobalBlocking/global block whitelist table"> </a></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#license" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">License</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#license" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="//www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-standalone.html">GNU General Public License 2.0</a> or later</td> </tr><tr> <td><b>Download</b></td> <td><div class="plainlinks"><a href="/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/GlobalBlocking" title="Special:ExtensionDistributor/GlobalBlocking"><b>Download extension</b></a> <br />Git <sup>[<a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Download_from_Git" title="Special:MyLanguage/Download from Git">?</a>]</sup>: <ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-GlobalBlocking/archive/master.tar.gz">Download Git master</a></span></li> <li><a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/GlobalBlocking" class="extiw" title="git:mediawiki/extensions/GlobalBlocking">browse repository</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-GlobalBlocking">GitHub</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/extensions/GlobalBlocking/%2Blog/master" class="extiw" title="git:mediawiki/extensions/GlobalBlocking/+log/master">commit history</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-GlobalBlocking/graphs/contributors">repository contributors (GitHub)</a></li> <li><a href="https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/project:mediawiki/extensions/GlobalBlocking" class="extiw" title="gerrit:q/project:mediawiki/extensions/GlobalBlocking">code review</a></li></ul></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" colspan="2"> <div class="mw-collapsible-header"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#parameters" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Parameters</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#parameters" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></div> <div class="mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><span class="configvariable" title="Full path to api.php to use to expand templates in block reasons">$wgGlobalBlockRemoteReasonUrl</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="IP ranges that bypass checks and are always allowed">$wgGlobalBlockingAllowedRanges</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="The number of IP addresses to retroactively globally autoblock when a global block is created with autoblocking enabled.">$wgGlobalBlockingMaximumIPsToRetroactivelyAutoblock</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable">$wgApplyGlobalBlocks</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable">$wgGlobalBlockingBlockXFF</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="The content language of the central wiki specified in $wgGlobalBlockingCentralWiki. Used to appropriately set the language for reason used for autoblocks. If unset, the content language of the wiki where the autoblock was triggered will be used.">$wgGlobalBlockingCentralWikiContentLanguage</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="The maximum number of seconds that an autoblock can last. If the parent block expires before this maximum, the expiry will the expiry of the parent block. Default 86400 = 1 day.">$wgGlobalBlockingAutoblockExpiry</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="Whether the GlobalBlocking extension should be allowed to create autoblocks. Used as a temporary feature flag while some blockers for releasing this to WMF production are sorted out.">$wgGlobalBlockingEnableAutoblocks</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="The ID of the central wiki where global blocks are performed. Used to provide a link to the global block log which is likely to have entries, instead of the local log which is unlikely to contain entries. If the value is false, then the local log is used.">$wgGlobalBlockingCentralWiki</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="If true, then hide all global autoblocks in the response of the globalblocks API. This is used as a temporary feature flag so that WMF wikis can avoid breaking code which relies on the API, and would break if global autoblocks appear in the results.">$wgGlobalBlockingHideAutoblocksInGlobalBlocksAPIResponse</span></li> <li><span class="configvariable" title="Maximum CIDR range when globally blocking an IP range.">$wgGlobalBlockingCIDRLimit</span></li></ul></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" colspan="2"> <div class="mw-collapsible-header"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#rights" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Added rights</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#rights" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></div> <div class="mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li>globalblock</li> <li>globalblock-whitelist</li> <li>globalblock-exempt</li></ul> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" colspan="2"> <div class="mw-collapsible-header"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#hook" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Hooks used</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#hook" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r6219282">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none none;margin:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist mw-collapsible-content"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/CentralAuthInfoFields" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/CentralAuthInfoFields">CentralAuthInfoFields</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/CentralAuthInfoFields" class="mw-redirect" title="Manual:Hooks/CentralAuthInfoFields"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/ContributionsToolLinks" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/ContributionsToolLinks">ContributionsToolLinks</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/ContributionsToolLinks" title="Manual:Hooks/ContributionsToolLinks"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/GetBlockErrorMessageKey" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/GetBlockErrorMessageKey">GetBlockErrorMessageKey</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/GetBlockErrorMessageKey" title="Manual:Hooks/GetBlockErrorMessageKey"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/GetLogTypesOnUser" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/GetLogTypesOnUser">GetLogTypesOnUser</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/GetLogTypesOnUser" title="Manual:Hooks/GetLogTypesOnUser"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/GetUserBlock" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/GetUserBlock">GetUserBlock</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/GetUserBlock" title="Manual:Hooks/GetUserBlock"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates">LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates" title="Manual:Hooks/LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/OtherBlockLogLink" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/OtherBlockLogLink">OtherBlockLogLink</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/OtherBlockLogLink" title="Manual:Hooks/OtherBlockLogLink"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput">SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput" title="Manual:Hooks/SpecialContributionsBeforeMainOutput"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/SpreadAnyEditBlock" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/SpreadAnyEditBlock">SpreadAnyEditBlock</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/SpreadAnyEditBlock" title="Manual:Hooks/SpreadAnyEditBlock"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/UserIsBlockedGlobally" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/UserIsBlockedGlobally">UserIsBlockedGlobally</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/UserIsBlockedGlobally" title="Manual:Hooks/UserIsBlockedGlobally"> </a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/UserMergeAccountFields" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/UserMergeAccountFields">UserMergeAccountFields</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:Hooks/UserMergeAccountFields" class="mw-redirect" title="Manual:Hooks/UserMergeAccountFields"> </a></span></li></ul></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" colspan="2"> <div class="mw-collapsible-header"><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension#newhook" title="Special:MyLanguage/Template:Extension">Hooks provided</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Template:Extension#newhook" title="Template:Extension"> </a></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r6219282"><div class="plainlist mw-collapsible-content"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GlobalBlocking/Hooks/GlobalBlockingGetRetroactiveAutoblockIPs" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GlobalBlocking/Hooks/GlobalBlockingGetRetroactiveAutoblockIPs">GlobalBlockingGetRetroactiveAutoblockIPs</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Extension:GlobalBlocking/Hooks/GlobalBlockingGetRetroactiveAutoblockIPs" title="Extension:GlobalBlocking/Hooks/GlobalBlockingGetRetroactiveAutoblockIPs"> </a></span></li></ul></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td title="This only includes downloads from Special:ExtensionDistributor. Other download methods such as git or bundled extensions are not included."><b>Quarterly downloads</b></td> <td>89 (Ranked 60<sup>th</sup>)</td> </tr> <tr> <td title=""><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Extension:GlobalBlocking"><b>Public wikis using</b></a></td> <td>1,015 (Ranked 250<sup>th</sup>)</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="ext-infobox-translate"> <a href="https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translate/ext-globalblocking" class="extiw" title="translatewiki:Special:Translate/ext-globalblocking">Translate the GlobalBlocking extension</a> if it is available at translatewiki.net</td> </tr><tr class="mw-empty-elt"> </tr> <tr> <td><b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki-Vagrant#Using_roles" title="Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki-Vagrant">Vagrant role</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/MediaWiki-Vagrant#Using_roles" title="MediaWiki-Vagrant"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a class="external text" href="https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-vagrant/puppet_classes/role_3A_3Aglobalblocking.html">globalblocking</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <b><a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Phabricator" title="Special:MyLanguage/Phabricator">Issues</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Phabricator" title="Phabricator"> </a></span></b></td> <td><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/globalblocking" class="extiw" title="phab:tag/globalblocking">Open tasks</a> · <a class="external text" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=GlobalBlocking">Report a bug</a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> <p>The <b>GlobalBlocking</b> extension allows a user with the appropriate permissions to block an IP address or IP address range (but <i>not</i> accounts before MediaWiki 1.43) on all wikis in a group sharing the same <code>globalblocking</code> database. It is intended to be used for combating severe cross-wiki vandalism and spam. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Installation">Installation</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/GlobalBlocking" title="Special:ExtensionDistributor/GlobalBlocking">Download</a> and move the extracted <code>GlobalBlocking</code> folder to your <code>extensions/</code> directory.<br />Developers and code contributors should install the extension <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Download_from_Git" title="Special:MyLanguage/Download from Git">from Git</a> instead, using:<code class="mw-code mw-highlight" style="display:block">cd extensions/<br />git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/GlobalBlocking</code></li> <li>Add the following code at the bottom of your <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:LocalSettings.php" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:LocalSettings.php">LocalSettings.php</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:LocalSettings.php" title="Manual:LocalSettings.php"> </a></span> file: <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nx">wfLoadExtension</span><span class="p">(</span> <span class="s1">'GlobalBlocking'</span> <span class="p">);</span> </pre></div></li> <li>You will also need to create a dedicated database for this extension to work. At a minimum (all wikis running on the same host), you need to create a local database for the global tables. Usually this database is named <code>globalblocking</code>, but you can choose a different name. For example, on WMF wikis this table is on a database named <code>centralauth</code>.</li> <li>Grant all database users that your wikis run as full permissions on the database created in the above step (at a minimum, <code>SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE</code>).</li> <li>Do either of the following depending on the version of MediaWiki you are running: <ul><li>If you run MediaWiki 1.42 or above, define the configuration <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="nv">$wgDatabaseVirtualDomains</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'virtual-globalblocking'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'globalblocking'</span><span class="p">;</span></code> (replacing <code>globalblocking</code> with the name of the database created in the steps above). See <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgVirtualDomainsMapping" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgVirtualDomainsMapping">Manual:$wgVirtualDomainsMapping</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:$wgVirtualDomainsMapping" title="Manual:$wgVirtualDomainsMapping"> </a></span> for more detail on how this configuration value works.</li> <li>If you run MediaWiki 1.41 or below, define the configuration <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><span class="nv">$wgGlobalBlockingDatabase</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s1">'dbname'</span><span class="p">;</span></code> where <code>dbname</code> is replaced with the name of the database you created in the steps above. If you called your database <code>globalblocking</code> then you can skip this step.</li></ul></li> <li>After creating the database, you should import the SQL from <code>tables-generated-globalblocks.sql</code> into the global blocking database.</li> <li>You also need to run <code>update.php</code> on each of your local databases, or otherwise import the SQL schema in <code>tables-generated-global_block_whitelist.sql</code> to them.</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Yes" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="15" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg/23px-OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg/30px-OOjs_UI_icon_check-constructive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></span></span> <b>Done</b> – Navigate to <a href="/wiki/Special:Version" title="Special:Version">Special:Version</a> on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Configuration">Configuration</h2></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Config variable</th> <th>Description </th></tr> <tr> <td>$wgApplyGlobalBlocks </td> <td>Whether to respect global blocks on this wiki. This is used so that global blocks can be set on one wiki, but not actually applied there (i.e. so people can contest them on that wiki). </td></tr> <tr> <td>$wgGlobalBlockingBlockXFF </td> <td>The flag <code>$wgGlobalBlockingBlockXFF</code>, set to <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr"><span class="k">true</span></code> by default, causes blocks to apply to all of the IP addresses in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For" class="extiw" title="w:X-Forwarded-For">X-Forwarded-For</a> (XFF) header. Set this flag to <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr"><span class="k">false</span></code> to disable this feature. For more details, see <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T25343" class="extiw" title="phabricator:T25343">task T25343</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>$wgGlobalBlockingCIDRLimit </td> <td>Largest global rangeblocks allowed, set by CIDR prefix. The format is the same as <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgBlockCIDRLimit" title="Special:MyLanguage/Manual:$wgBlockCIDRLimit">$wgBlockCIDRLimit</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Manual:$wgBlockCIDRLimit" title="Manual:$wgBlockCIDRLimit"> </a></span> and the default values are /16 for IPv4 and /19 for IPv6, as with $wgBlockCIDRLimit. </td></tr> <tr> <td>$wgGlobalBlockingDatabase </td> <td><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r4199130">.mw-parser-output .mw-version{border:1px solid #72777d;font-size:80%;line-height:1.2;border-collapse:collapse}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-ltr{float:right;margin:0 0 .5em .5em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-rtl{float:left;margin:0 .5em .5em 0;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .mw-version td{padding:.1em .3em}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-versionbox{border:5px solid #00af89;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-versionnumber{font-weight:bold;font-size:180%}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-version .mw-version-versionbox{border-color:#c8ccd1}.mw-parser-output .mw-version.mw-version-version2 .mw-version-versionbox{border-top-color:#c8ccd1;border-right-color:#c8ccd1;border-left-color:#c8ccd1}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-version-unsupported .mw-version-versionbox{border-color:#d33}.mw-parser-output .mw-version.mw-version-version2-unsupported .mw-version-versionbox{border-top-color:#d33;border-right-color:#d33;border-left-color:#d33}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-version-legacy .mw-version-versionbox{border-color:#f93}.mw-parser-output .mw-version.mw-version-version2-legacy .mw-version-versionbox{border-top-color:#f93;border-right-color:#f93;border-left-color:#f93}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-version-stable .mw-version-versionbox,.mw-parser-output .mw-version.mw-version.mw-version-and-later .mw-version-versionbox{border-color:#00af89}.mw-parser-output .mw-version.mw-version-version2-stable .mw-version-versionbox{border-top-color:#00af89;border-right-color:#00af89;border-left-color:#00af89}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-version-future .mw-version-versionbox{border-color:#8080c0}.mw-parser-output .mw-version.mw-version-version2-future .mw-version-versionbox{border-top-color:#8080c0;border-right-color:#8080c0;border-left-color:#8080c0}.mw-parser-output .mw-version-version-alpha .mw-version-versionbox{border-style:dotted}</style> <table class="mw-version mw-version-ltr mw-version-version mw-version-version-legacy"><tbody><tr> <td>MediaWiki version:</td> <td class="mw-version-versionbox" title="MediaWiki 1.41 is a legacy version"><div class="mw-version-versionnumber"><small>≤</small> 1.41</div></td> </tr></tbody></table> The name of the database used to store the <code>globalblocks</code> table. This table is on a different database because only one table is used for all wikis in a wiki farm. </td></tr> <tr> <td>$wgGlobalBlockRemoteReasonUrl </td> <td>Full path to api.php to use to expand templates in block reasons. </td></tr> <tr> <td>$wgGlobalBlockingAllowedRanges </td> <td>A list of ranges or IP addresses which are exempted from all global blocks which target the ranges or IP addresses. This exemption does not apply to global account blocks (even if the user is on an exempt range or IP address). </td></tr> <tr> <td>$wgGlobalBlockingCentralWiki </td> <td>The ID of the central wiki where global blocks are performed. Used to provide a link to the global block log which is likely to have entries, instead of the local log which is unlikely to contain entries. If the value is <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-php mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr"><span class="k">false</span></code>, then the local log is used. </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="API">API</h2></div> <p>Two API modules are provided, one to (un)block users, and another to view existing global blocks. They are documented at <a href="/wiki/Extension:GlobalBlocking/API" title="Extension:GlobalBlocking/API">Extension:GlobalBlocking/API</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Usage">Usage</h2></div> <p>The following requires appropriate permissions, assigned by default to stewards, which by default can be added or removed by bureaucrats. To make a global block: </p> <ol><li>Go to <a href="/wiki/Special:GlobalBlock" title="Special:GlobalBlock">Special:GlobalBlock</a>.</li> <li>Enter the target you want to block. This can be an account post MediaWiki 1.43, an IPv4 address or range up to $wgGlobalBlockingCIDRLimit (by default /16, and also /16 hardcoded before that variable was introduced), or any IPv6 address or range up to $wgGlobalBlockingCIDRLimit (by default /19; /4 before that variable was introduced).</li> <li>You may decide you want to only block anonymous users, which can only be done for blocks on IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. To only block anonymous users, check the checkbox.</li> <li>Submit the form. The target of the block is now globally blocked on your wikis that opt in to the global blocking. Account creation is blocked (even if you selected "anonymous users only": <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T42190" class="extiw" title="phab:T42190">phab:T42190</a>), and the blocked user cannot edit any associated user talk pages on any wiki affected and opted in to the global block. If <a href="/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter" title="Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter">Extension:AbuseFilter</a><span style="display:none"><a href="/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter" title="Extension:AbuseFilter"> </a></span> is installed, globally blocked IP addresses are prohibited from viewing the abuse log if the particular wiki is opted in to the block.</li></ol> <p>To remove a global block: </p> <ol><li>Go to <a href="/wiki/Special:GlobalUnblock" title="Special:GlobalUnblock">Special:GlobalUnblock</a> and click "Remove a global block".</li> <li>Enter the target of the block you want to remove and the reason, and submit the form. 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