On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Laurentius laurentius.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Il giorno gio, 05/11/2015 alle 18.35 +0100, Quim Gil ha scritto:
Superprotect [1] was introduced by the Wikimedia Foundation to resolve a product development disagreement. We have not used it for resolving a dispute since. Consequently, today we are removing Superprotect from Wikimedia servers.
This is great news!
Just to understand, is it still present in MediaWiki but not active on Wikimedia sites or it not in the MediaWiki code anymore?
There is no code specific to "superprotect"; it's the exact same MediaWiki permissions/protection system that lets users in the 'sysop' group override the ability of anonymous or regular users to edit particular pages. Technically nothing has changed -- particular protection levels can be added and removed via configuration at any time if they are needed.
In other words -- ignore the superprotect red herring! Please look at the documentation of the product process and give feedback on that, it's much, MUCH more important:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Product_Development_Process
-- brion