Is this still a wiki, or do we have a policy of hindering edits on certain articles?
The George W. Bush article is rather large, about 95 kilobytes, but fortunately like most of our larger articles it's divided into many smaller sections which can be edited individually.
Except they can't. Someone has *deliberately* inserted a "noeditsection" directive into this article, and all suggestions that this hinders editing are resisted, on the grounds that, as well as hindering legitimate edits, it hinders vandalism.
I'm in a bit of a spitting fury over this. It seems to be the silliest situation. If I want to correct a spelling error, I should not be hindered in doing so by the action of some well-meaning idiot.
On 12/15/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
Except they can't. Someone has *deliberately* inserted a "noeditsection" directive into this article, and all suggestions that this hinders editing are resisted, on the grounds that, as well as hindering legitimate edits, it hinders vandalism.
This appears to be a bug due to semi-protection (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Semi-protection_policy for more information on semi-protection). A Bugzilla report on the matter (Bug 4385: Cannot edit specific sections on semi protected articles; http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4385) was submitted about eight hours ago. If you could provide some information on the Bugzilla page that would help it become cleared up.
On 12/26/05, Blackcap snoutwood@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/15/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
Except they can't. Someone has *deliberately* inserted a "noeditsection" directive into this article, and all suggestions that this hinders editing are resisted, on the grounds that, as well as hindering legitimate edits, it hinders vandalism.
This appears to be a bug due to semi-protection (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Semi-protection_policy for more information on semi-protection). A Bugzilla report on the matter (Bug 4385: Cannot edit specific sections on semi protected articles; http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4385) was submitted about eight hours ago. If you could provide some information on the Bugzilla page that would help it become cleared up.
This is a misunderstanding. The words you quote were written by me before the inception of semi-protection,and currently there is no NOEDITSECTION directive in the article and, although it is semi-protected, I still successfully edited a section of the article from one of my alternative accounts, User:Tasty monster.
So the problem of section editing has gone away.
Also the rise of vandalism on that article seems to have halted somewhat, though this may be due to local factors. In any case who care about vandalism on this article, it doesn't affect the final product as long as normal editing is not hindered.
On 12/26/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
This is a misunderstanding. The words you quote were written by me before the inception of semi-protection,and currently there is no NOEDITSECTION directive in the article and, although it is semi-protected, I still successfully edited a section of the article from one of my alternative accounts, User:Tasty monster.
So the problem of section editing has gone away.
Also the rise of vandalism on that article seems to have halted somewhat, though this may be due to local factors. In any case who care about vandalism on this article, it doesn't affect the final product as long as normal editing is not hindered.
Gotcha. Sorry about the misunderstanding.