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== Minor changes on the interface of Special:Block ==

Hi, this will be part of Tech News but since it'll go live before the tech news for the change is published, here is a heads up. We made two tiny changes on the interface of [[Special:Block]] ([[phab:T401823]]) that will go live on [[WP:THURSDAY|Thursday]] this week. 1- Now indefinite as a duration have a dedicated radio button so you don't need to find it on the preset duration drop down 2- If an indef duration has been picked, a new set of common block reasons will be shown. You can modify that in [[MediaWiki:Ipbreason-indef-dropdown]] (as opposed to [[MediaWiki:Ipbreason-dropdown]]). That way you can have basically two set of common block reasons: One for indef blocks and one for non-indef ones which would reduce the size of that massive drop down. Hope that'd be useful for you. [[user:Ladsgroup|Ladsgroup]]<sup>[[User talk:Ladsgroup|overleg]]</sup> 12:11, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
:Thanks a lot! Will existing reasons from [[MediaWiki:Ipbreason-dropdown]] also be available in the new dropdown for some time, or only the ones we configure at [[MediaWiki:Ipbreason-indef-dropdown]]? If the latter, I might try to get it ready before Thursday. [[User:Chaotic Enby|<span style="color:#8a7500">Chaotic <span style="color:#9e5cb1">Enby</span></span>]] ([[User talk:Chaotic Enby|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby|contribs]]) 12:23, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
::Looking at it more closely, I don't think any of the applicable reasons at [[MediaWiki:Ipbreason-dropdown]] could not also apply to an indefinite block in case of repeated abuse. If anything, I believe the main benefit would be pruning the "default" list from things like username blocks or LTA blocks, while the indef list will stay the full size. [[User:Chaotic Enby|<span style="color:#8a7500">Chaotic <span style="color:#9e5cb1">Enby</span></span>]] ([[User talk:Chaotic Enby|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby|contribs]]) 12:29, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
:::I think something that is a common reason for non-indef block could be an uncommon reason for indef ones. The text field will stay there and admins could always use that for indef blocks of repeated violations but I think for example <nowiki>[[WP:Vandalism|Vandalism]]</nowiki> could be removed from indef ones since <nowiki>[[WP:Vandalism-only account|Vandalism-only account]]</nowiki> exists there (and if an admin wants to ban someone fully for "Vandalism", they can use the text field). That being said, I'm not an admin and this is your wiki's decision of how to approach it. [[user:Ladsgroup|Ladsgroup]]<sup>[[User talk:Ladsgroup|overleg]]</sup> 12:36, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
::::That is actually a very good point, thanks a lot! I approached it with the mindset of "which ones would be plausible reasons for a block", but the fact that some of them might be too uncommon absolutely has to be taken into consideration. [[User:Chaotic Enby|<span style="color:#8a7500">Chaotic <span style="color:#9e5cb1">Enby</span></span>]] ([[User talk:Chaotic Enby|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Chaotic Enby|contribs]]) 12:40, 16 March 2026 (UTC)