[Foundation-l] Wikinews

[James R. Johnson]

Is it possible to protect only certain portions of a page, like a person's
picture, etc.?

James

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[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rebecca
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 11:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikinews

> The second point has to do with liability. If an article contains an
error, but may not be corrected after a week, we will be liable.
> And this time, we wont be able to say "there is a incorrect statement ?
Please, do correct it".
> Putting a correction in an attached page wont do it either. Because other
sites will use our content, and they are not likely to bother go check error
corrections mentionned in another page. This type of "correction" work well
in paper journal. It just is not okay online.

Wouldn't the answer with these things be to have it protected, but
editable by one level of user (be they sysops, bureaucrats, whatever),
who could then correct any urgent errors?

-- ambi
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