Author: rd232
Description:
Users with long or complex blog logs may unjustly have this held against them, as the context for entries is limited, and adding additional 1-second blocks to provide comments is highly unsatisfactory.
It should be possible to provide a per-user annotation/discussion page for a user's block log. The page would probably be protected in practice (for only admins to edit), but that's not necessary in software.
By way of explanation, I did try adding some code https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Blockiptext&action=historysubmit&diff=433164642&oldid=400233851 to MediaWiki:Blockiptext, which would have done the job; but this fell down on not getting the SUBPAGENAME in order to know which page to load. Possibly there is a simple solution which would make the user's name available in that situation.
There was discussion https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)&oldid=433348619#Block_log_annotation about implementing in JavaScript, but that's not ideal.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement