On 6/18/07, Eagle 101 eagle.wikien.l@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/18/07, Rory Stolzenberg rory096@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/18/07, Eagle 101 eagle.wikien.l@gmail.com wrote:
There are other things I'd like to see, such as the ability to move images, and to protect images.
Wait, we can't protect images? What's the point of c-uploaded, then?
Rory
See the source code of SpecialUpload.php (SVN available at http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/SpecialUploa... )
/** * If the image is protected, non-sysop users won't be able * to modify it by uploading a new revision. */ if( !$nt->userCan( 'edit' ) ) { return $this->uploadError( wfMsgWikiHtml( 'protectedpage' ) ); }
If an image is protected on Wikipedia, a new version can't be uploaded over it, and (of course) the image description itself can't be edited.
If you try to upload an image over one that's protected, you'll get the contents of [[MediaWiki:Protectedpage]] thrown at you, surrounded by <span class="error"> and </span>. However, there is no way to have both the description editable by anyone and to prohibit uploads, which Eagle was possibly referring to.
The current situation does not apply to uploading a local copy of an image protected on commons, and I don't think it works so well with cascading protection either (transcluding image description pages).