On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:01 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Before this, there was no expectation that a page
could be protected
such that sysops could not alter the content of the superprotected
page.
This is false.
Now, the devs/ops have attempted to introduce that
capability, and the
new functionality is very likely riddled with holes, some of which
MZMcBride has suggested in the thread 'Options for the German
Wikipedia'.
Most of what MZMcBride posted there has nothing to do with actually
breaking superprotection. Editing a page that isn't superprotected isn't a
break in the protection feature itself, for example. Nor is hacking
people's accounts.
--
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation