[WikiEN-l] Main Page Featured Article

[James Hare]

We should be locking the meta templates -- the kind that won't be changing
anytime soon and if there's vandalism it'd be awful.

On 12/18/06, NSLE (Wikipedia) <nsle.wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I assume most of the list's readers know what problems we've been having
> with the TFA each day on the main page (vandals inserting shock images
> into
> transcluded-on-transcluded templates). In case some don't, I'm posting
> this
> to see if anyone has ideas off how to avoid this. It's been discussed
> extensively on ANI, and there does not seem to be a workable solution to
> it.
> The images are being uploaded by sleeper socks old enough to upload them,
> and protecting every single template on TFA (including
> transcluded-on-transcluded ones) can be tedious for the admins. I've
> suggested perhaps substituting the templates before they become TFA (and
> re-transcluding after), but do the other list readers have any solution?
>
> --NSLE
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