On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 6:54 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:49 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjorsch@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:01 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@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.
Care to explain?
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:$wgRestrictionLevels&... shows that protection levels that prevent sysops from editing were considered as far back as 3 April 2012, for example.
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.
Of course it is. It isnt a 'feature' until it actually works at the released product level.
You appear to be confusing superprotection with something else, likely the much larger concept of preventing JS hacks to disable MediaViewer.