Mw namespace pages that expand templates generally arent the scary ones from an anon editing prespective. I don't think this is really neccesary, and can mostly be dealt with socially when needed.
-bawolff
P.s. $5 says someone will probably come up with an exception with in 10 seconds of me making such a statement.
On 2013-04-20 2:08 PM, "Techman224" techman224@techman224.ca wrote:
Some people are not aware of this, and they use templates to style
Mediawiki messages. If the administrator forgets to protect the template, it opens up a backdoor for other users to edit the message.
Techman224
On 2013-04-20, at 4:25 AM, Petr Kadlec petr.kadlec@gmail.com wrote:
On 20 April 2013 07:08, Techman224 techman224@techman224.ca wrote:
Right now the MediaWiki namespace is protected from editing. However,
if
you add a template to a Mediawiki message and the template is
unprotected,
any user could edit the message by editing the template, creating a backdoor.
Ummm... Don't do that, then? Sometimes you _want_ to include pieces of
text
editable by more than just sysops (say, by autoconfirmed users), so you
use
a template from a MediaWiki message. (Cf. e.g. https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Recentchangestext and https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0ablona:Ozn%C3%A1men%C3%ADRC.) Or,
you
do not want to do that, then why are you using an unprotected template? Either transclude another page in MediaWiki namespace as a template ({{MediaWiki:Something}}), or make sure you protect the used template
(with
possible cascade).
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