On Feb 4, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
Erm. So, any admin can delete the main page just by editing a page in the MediaWiki namespace first? So Tim's hack basically serves only to prevent accidental or other non-malicious deletion.
It's probably also security against hijacked administrator accounts, actually - it certainly seems like most of our account hijackers are not particularly knowledgeable about how MediaWiki works, or they'd do far more clever things than they do.
-Phil