yurik@svn.wikimedia.org wrote:

Revision: 24673 Author: yurik Date: 2007-08-08 15:12:08 +0000 (Wed, 08 Aug 2007)

Log Message:

Revert r24668; needed to prevent accidental API exposure by novice administrators.

In theory, read-only mode should now be safe for all standard installations (eg, requiring authentication if in restricted read mode). What's the remaining issue that requires this?

-- brion