Hi,
etc. These are important capabilities of the wiki that
have been used
for many clearly beneficial purposes. In the long run, we will want to
apply a code review process to these changes as with any other
deployed code, but for now the system works as it is and we have no
intent to remove this capability.
I first thought when witnessing the explicit removal of some lines of
code from the German MediaWiki:Common.js [0] followed by the
alteration of permission (meaning the assignment of the newly created
<superprotect> right) to the same page was a coincidence.
Now, having observed that not only user Eloquence (aka Erik Moeller)
himself engaged in the enforcement of <superprotect> right on de.wp
[1] but soon after a workaround was published a change was deployed
[2, 3] as counter measurement to block any possible interference can
no longer be interpret as acting in good faith but rather strikes me
as a form of oppression (or worst as censorship).
This protection level provides an additional path to
manage these
situations by preventing edits to the relevant pages (we're happy to
help apply any urgent edits) until a particular situation has calmed
down.
What situation did emerge that such drastic measures were/are necessary?
[0]
https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.js&diff=pre…
[1]
https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3ACommon.js&action…
[2]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/153345/ +
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/153351/
[3]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69380
Cheers
On 8/10/14, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Admins are currently given broad leeway to customize the user
> experience for all users, including addition of site-wide JS, CSS,
etc. These are important capabilities of the wiki that
have been used
for many clearly beneficial purposes. In the long run, we will want to
apply a code review process to these changes as with any other
deployed code, but for now the system works as it is and we have no
intent to remove this capability.
>
> However, we've clarified in a number of venues that use of the
> MediaWiki: namespace to disable site features is unacceptable. If such
> a conflict arises, we're prepared to revoke permissions if required.
This protection level provides an additional path to
manage these
situations by preventing edits to the relevant pages (we're happy to
help apply any urgent edits) until a particular situation has calmed
down.
>
> Thanks,
> Erik
> --
> Erik Möller
> VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
>
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