[WikiEN-l] A quiet revolution

[Tariq Ab- Jo- Tu-]

[[The weather in London]] has been created and deleted for the final time.

Andrew Gray wrote:
> On 31/01/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>> If that was deliberate, I would have called it a surpassingly
>>> beautiful hack. But it's serendipitous. That's somehow even *better*.
>>>       
>> So dare I ask, what's the oversight on this?  I'm waiting for the first
>> day an article is protected that has never been created, in particular.
>>     
>
> Well, pre-emptively protecting [[deliberate example redlink]] may be
> doable now ;-)
>
> In all seriousness, though, the oversight is that it can easily be
> seen what pages are protected in this way - the central "transclusion"
> page for these is public, and can be watched easily enough.
>
> (I suppose people can sneakily cascade-protect trivial obscure
> subpages with fake transcludes... but, then, they could do
> deleted-protected on pages which had never been created under the old
> system, too. So no new way of being a dick...)
>
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