On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 at 23:49, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Here are a couple of arguments from WMF in favor of
SuperProtect, which was
implemented to prevent local users from removing MediaViewer.
Superprotect is now over five years old. Superprotect's removal is now over
four years old. It was a mistake, and it was explicitly acknowledged as
such: the then-ED of the WMF said it had "set up a precedent of
mistrust". Almost all of the people involved in it are no longer affiliated
with the Wikimedia Foundation, and in fact, plenty of the staff members at
the Wikimedia Foundation were hired *after* superprotect was removed.
I don't think bringing up superprotect in this discussion is especially
relevant or helpful.
Dan
Source for most of the above:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Superprotect