On Sun, 24 Aug 2014, at 07:02, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote:
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:53 PM, svetlana
<svetlana(a)fastmail.com.au> wrote:
An undo with appropriate edit summary would also
avoid a need in
escalating the issue - local sysops would consciously hold off their edit.
If they went against an office action, introducing superprotect /then/
could make sense
Note that's exactly what was tried in the dewiki situation. The first WMF
revert[1] refers to a warning on the talk page[2] that (according to Google
Translate, and Erik's later statements) seems to basically say "Please
don't do this again. Otherwise we might have to remove the editability of
this page."
But the local sysop didn't hold off; according to Google Translate he
replied "With threats you will achieve nothing."
[1]:
https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.js&diff=132…
[2]:
https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_Diskussion:Common.js&a…
And then they draw comics stating that that's WMF's fault?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_building_wiki_wall_in_August_2014_…
What a wonderful community (clique of active editors and sysops) we have.
svetlana