...sigh...
I am not assuming everything is like wikipedia, I just don't see the use. I
suppose 'editprotected' can be made a right (since it's easy to do), but it
still doesn't make sense to full protect a page and want people to be
editing it.
If I had my own serious wiki, I'd make a custom group X for trusted users
and make it a new protection level. That would let the trusted users and
admins edit, and "trusted" can be whatever I want. Having a top lock DO NOT
EDIT THIS level can be useful, with different levels below.
The reason we don't is that, for one, it's very hard to define this group
and get the rights out and such, which these smaller (though perhaps still
big) wikis would have no problem with. And if they did, they would have the
same problems scaling out this 'editprotect' right magiggy thing.
Simetrical-3 wrote:
On 8/17/07, Danny B. <Wikipedia.Danny.B(a)email.cz> wrote:
* There's no cascade semi-protection at the
moment available
And there shouldn't ever be, unless you want autoconfirmed users to be
able to semiprotect pages. You could, however, have full protection
that cascades to semiprotection, I guess.
On 8/17/07, Voice of All <jschulz_4587(a)msn.com> wrote:
Giving them editprotected sort of rights would
put up a high burden of
trust,
they may as well be an admin. Not to mention that when a page is
full-protected, NO ONE should be editing (save simple grammer/spelling
fixes
maybe), even admins.
You're assuming most wikis are like Wikipedia. They aren't. Many
wikis are only semi-open, with protection being used for many content
pages. The question is whether we want to encourage that in the
default configuration. I suspect we don't.
On 8/17/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Wrong mailing list. The features you want already
exist in the code,
it's just a matter of the settings for an individual project.
The request was to set the MediaWiki defaults. That is, in fact, a
question for the development list (and/or the bug tracker), since it's
the developers who decide default software settings for the tarballs
that get released. This is also the system administration list, and
it's the system administrators who decide the default settings for
Wikimedia projects (i.e., when a site hasn't expressed a particular
preference), so it's also the correct place for that.
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