Even ignoring the original problem, we have wgNamespaceProtection, wouldn't
it make sense to have wgNamespaceCascadingProtection?
*-- *
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
| tylerromeo(a)gmail.com
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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(a)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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 April 2013 07:08, Techman224 <techman224(a)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
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).
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
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