I've gone ahead and committed the new page protection UI. This allows seeing exactly what a page is set to, and logs a bit more information; so no more "hey, is this page really protected or just protected against moves?".
It's a bit more complex, but hopefully not too scary.
Additionally there's a new level between unprotected/default permissions and sysop-only; this is set up on en.wikipedia.org and will restrict edits by unregistered users and accounts less than four days old.
(This is to implement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SEMI )
There's now a timestamp field on the user table for the registration date, which is used to calculate the age (this'll be included on newly registered accounts but is NULL on older ones).
The age setting replaces the percentage formerly used for the sitewide move limitations.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 22/12/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
There's now a timestamp field on the user table for the registration date, which is used to calculate the age (this'll be included on newly registered accounts but is NULL on older ones).
The age setting replaces the percentage formerly used for the sitewide move limitations.
...hmm. So dos this mean that:
a) All page-move permissions are done on the four-day-old basis as well? and/or b) All users currently existing are grandfathered in as "old enough"? (if so, it'll be moot in four days time, I guess)
Thanks for the changes.
-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
Andrew Gray wrote:
On 22/12/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
There's now a timestamp field on the user table for the registration date, which is used to calculate the age (this'll be included on newly registered accounts but is NULL on older ones).
The age setting replaces the percentage formerly used for the sitewide move limitations.
...hmm. So dos this mean that:
a) All page-move permissions are done on the four-day-old basis as well?
Yes. Previously it was using the percentage-of-registered-users thing.
b) All users currently existing are grandfathered in as "old enough"? (if so, it'll be moot in four days time, I guess)
Yes.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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