On 12/18/06, Luna lunasantin@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/18/06, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Assuming that a {{subst:}} works recursively and automatically, which I really don't know... My MediaWiki installation is outside my immediate hands-on test radius unfortunately.
Temporary substing is something to explore. But it would have its own problems, I think -- meta templates aren't substed when you subst the main template, from my experience. Substing all the infoboxes and other templates on a page can make it pretty ugly, too... unless we were thinking about copying all the templates to temporary subpages?
An adminbot is starting to sound a bit more tempting, from my end. Any bot would be able to find and protect TFA, and absolutely everything transcluded onto it, pretty easily, I think. Though I don't imagine that'll be an easy sell. Might be easier to see if we can get pgkbot to report all edits to that set of pages in the IRC counter-vandalism channels.
Still just brainstorming, here. -Luna
Responding to you and Steve here...
I would assume that this would be a temporary subst; that we'd essentially freeze the page prior to TFA move, make a completely subst'ed version, protect that, have it up for the day, and then do a revert to the immediately prior version as soon as it's done being TFA.
It doesn't really matter if it's terribly ugly for a while; the freeze is intended to keep it from being malignly modified.
This does make TFA temporarily not-editable, which people have objected to, but I don't know that doing so is necessarily a bad thing given the ongoing highly visible vandalism problem. How many tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of visitors have gotten penis pictures so far? 8-(