I've raised the watchlist default cutoff from the much-hated 1-hour for users with 250+ items to 12 hours for 1000+ items. It could comfortably go rather further, I suspect.
Also, I noticed that Special:Asksql was a little too permissive; until this is locked down right I've disabled Asksql on the live servers.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Brion Vibber wrote:
Also, I noticed that Special:Asksql was a little too permissive; until this is locked down right I've disabled Asksql on the live servers.
Could you please specify what you mean by 'too permissive'? Was it open to non-sysops, did it allow things other than selects, or yet something else?
Andre Engels
On Dec 3, 2003, at 09:12, Andre Engels wrote:
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Brion Vibber wrote:
Also, I noticed that Special:Asksql was a little too permissive; until this is locked down right I've disabled Asksql on the live servers.
Could you please specify what you mean by 'too permissive'? Was it open to non-sysops, did it allow things other than selects, or yet something else?
It had the old special-case code for 'developer's still in (read private fields from user, and write capability, by using the wiki's normal user account instead of the limited sql-only one). That's taken out now and it's back online.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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