[Mediawiki-l] WikiThis! script

[=James Birkholz=]

It would be nice if there were an alternate to protecting a page ("lock" a 
page?) used for pages that will never be public-edited, that could be set 
to allow raw HTML. And then add some way to deal with the templates issue...


At 07:25 PM 1/26/05, Brion Vibber wrote:
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>=James Birkholz= wrote:
>| It might be nice to be able to allow raw HTML on protected pages....
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>This idea has been kicked around before. Here are just a couple of the
>potential pitfalls which have prevented it so far:
>
>* Page protection is used for other purposes, and does not necessarily
>mean that the current content is trusted or approved. If an admin
>protects a page to stop fighting or vandalism and doesn't notice the
>trap left on it by a malicious user, *BOOM* (A related example is the 
>protected log pages in 1.3.x, where text submitted by non-admin users will 
>be rendered as wiki text in a protected page context.) * Protected pages 
>may use non-protected templates. If the non-protected template gets an bit 
>added to it, *BOOM* - -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) -----BEGIN PGP 
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