[WikiEN-l] Please change your passwords.

[Snowolf]

;-)

Brion is checking actual admins, but it would be ironic if the new ones
would make the same mistake ;-)

On 5/7/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 07/05/07, Snowolf <mtazio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've added a question to all en.wp's running RfA that asks candidates if
> > their password is "[[..] alphanumeric? Formed by at least 8 characters?
> Not
> > by words in the dictionary? Not in the weakest password list?".
>
>
> o lord, not another question on RFA.
>
> I did just add to [[Wikipedia:Administrators]] a note -
>
> Administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, stewards and oversighters
> discovered to have cryptographically weak passwords will have their
> privileges removed on grounds of site security. This means that if
> your password can be cracked by the developers, they will take away
> your admin bit before someone "borrows" it for malicious purposes.
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators#Becoming_an_administrator
>
> I've added a comment in the wikitext that this is since the Main Page
> was deleted and Tubgirl put in the sitenotice ;-)
>
>
> - d.
>
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