Blocking logged in users in the non-english wikis

I've crossposted this to intlwiki-l. The thread started on wikitech-l.

Daniel Mayer wrote:
> Aoineko wrote:
> 
>>Instead, I don't understand why admin can't ban logged user!?
> 
> 
> Admins on the English Wikipedia can. But this is a very new feature, maybe it 
> is not installed on fr.wikipedia yet. Try to ban your own user name to see if 
> it works. 

You can already ban logged in users on fr:, it's just that no-one 
bothered to tell the French that. It's just a matter of translating the 
interface. For example where it used to say "blocked IP addresses", it 
should now say "blocked users" or "blocked usernames and IP addresses".

To block someone right now, go to [[fr:Special:Blockip]], and type their 
username into the IP box. It's pretty likely that this is the situation 
on all the non-English wikis.

I should reiterate that this feature should only be used for preventing 
"simple vandalism", or enforcing bans approved by Jimbo.

-- Tim Starling.