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)
Thanks a lot, Brion! This is an excellent and very important new feature. Could you make it explicit what the reasons are semi-protection is not enabled globally? Is this just during the testing period, or are you waiting for some kind of approval to turn it on?
Erik
The isNewbie check doesn't seem to work yet. I made an edit to a semi-protected page with a newly created user:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Eloquence/Sandbox&diff=32...
Erik
Brion: doesn't look scary at all after translation ;-) thank you!
effeietsanders
2005/12/22, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de:
The isNewbie check doesn't seem to work yet. I made an edit to a semi-protected page with a newly created user:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Eloquence/Sandbox&diff=32...
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Hi Braion,
doesn't look scary at all (after translation ;-) ) thank you, this will be more usefull, especially with the protectionlog under it.
effeietsanders
2005/12/22, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de:
The isNewbie check doesn't seem to work yet. I made an edit to a semi-protected page with a newly created user:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Eloquence/Sandbox&diff=32...
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Erik Moeller wrote:
Thanks a lot, Brion! This is an excellent and very important new feature. Could you make it explicit what the reasons are semi-protection is not enabled globally? Is this just during the testing period, or are you waiting for some kind of approval to turn it on?
The policy's only been made on en.wikipedia. If there's some consensus or order to put it on everything that can be done.
The isNewbie check doesn't seem to work yet. I made an edit to a semi-protected page with a newly created user:
I'm an idiot and made a typo in the config, so the four-day timeout didn't go into effect. I've corrected it.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 12/22/05, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
The isNewbie check doesn't seem to work yet. I made an edit to a semi-protected page with a newly created user:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Eloquence/Sandbox&diff=32...
Since the age field for existing users is set to null, won't there have to be a large enough sample of new users (beginning from when the feature was switched on) before the percentage age starts meaning anything?
-- Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com
Stephen Bain wrote:
Since the age field for existing users is set to null, won't there have to be a large enough sample of new users (beginning from when the feature was switched on) before the percentage age starts meaning anything?
The policy has been altered from x percentage of newest users to x days since registering (which is why the age field is necessary in the first place), so no. Accounts created before the age field went into effect won't be restricted, but all those afterwards will be until 4 days expire.
[[:en:User:Bbatsell]]
On 12/23/05, Brock Batsell wikipedia@theskeptik.com wrote:
Stephen Bain wrote:
Since the age field for existing users is set to null, won't there have to be a large enough sample of new users (beginning from when the feature was switched on) before the percentage age starts meaning anything?
The policy has been altered from x percentage of newest users to x days since registering (which is why the age field is necessary in the first place), so no. Accounts created before the age field went into effect won't be restricted, but all those afterwards will be until 4 days expire.
Oops, hadn't noticed that change.
-- Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com
Brion Vibber <brion@...> writes:
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Hi,
I have some questions about the semi-protecting. (This is for Wikizine)
Now this function is live for the English Wikipedia.
Can the other projects/languages also get this function or is still to experimental for that now?
If the can get it;
Will it become automatically active between now and some days/weeks?
Or is it only on request? If so what it the procedure the get it enabled? (community vote first, on request by the ambassador to this list, make bugzilla ticket about it, etc..)
Greetins, [[user:Walter]]
Walter Vermeir <walter@...> writes:
Hi,
I have some questions about the semi-protecting. (This is for Wikizine)
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Never mind. I am reading this from the web based infase of gmane.org and for some reason all the replys to this posting where (are) not shown. Now I have seen them and my questions are already answered.
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical
Greetings, Walter
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