On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, at 23:19, K. Peachey wrote:
Lets all welcome the new overlord Erik.
Add a new protection level called "superprotect"
Assigned to nobody by default. Requested by Erik Möller for the purposes
of protecting pages such that sysop permissions are not sufficient to
edit them.
Change-Id: Idfa211257dbacc7623d42393257de1525ff01e9e
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#q,Idfa211257dbacc7623d42393257de1525ff01e9e,n,z>
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/153302/
This change solves a problem that does not exist.
We either trust sysops, or we don't.
Erik Moeller wrote:
In the long run, we will want to
apply a code review process to these
changes as with any other deployed code
I hope such things will not need to go through the WMF. Or is that what you'd like?
svetlana.