On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:17:28 +0000, Theresa Knott theresaknott@gmail.com wrote:
Most of these are handled using termplates. We could unprotect [[Template:In the news]] for example and keep the main page protected. This would stop the main page being moved but still allow non admins to make edits. Can templates be moved? it's only page moves that are too difficult to deal with by reverting.
As Slowking Man noted, the recent protection of those templates followed a 15-minute-long goatsification of the main page.
We should find ways to distract and ward off immature kids that do not restrict everyone else -- and we will!
Practical suggestions please!
Sure thing. My thought at the time was, that we could use some of the following bits of code:
* an 'emergency mode' that redirects all visitors to a static read-only snapshot of the site taken once a day ** or a text-only mode that only produces text
* a one-click or option for removing images. [Maybe 2 clicks, with some kind of pop-up confirmation (javascript widget?) that doesn't require rendering another whole WP-page]. That way, even when the site is very slow, evil images can be deleted in under 15 minutes
Or, more generally, Code + Image Policy:
++ Add an IMAGE REVIEW step that imposes a time delay (or requires user approval) before any image can be displayed live on a page. Until the delay is over, the image would simply be linked to.
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