On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Petr Kadlec petr.kadlec@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Thomas Gries mail@tgries.de wrote:
Do we really have the template Namespace on MediaWiki open for edits by anons?
Yes. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights
In my view, this should be changed.
Why? Do you know any WMF project where the whole Template namespace is semiprotected?
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
Why indeed. Note that the only thing special or magical about the template namespace is that {{something}} shortcuts to {{template:something}}. Other than that it's just another page.
I have no idea why users of a who are mad enough to want to edit a template but don't have an account should be disallowed from doing so, other than that we should be making it obligatory to require informed consent before exposing anyone to template syntax. As long as we're not doing that for logged in users, I frankly can't seen the difference.
--Martijn Hoekstra
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