Hi all,
I'm sorry to repeat, but I would like to hear some thoughts on this question. Also added a clarification for one of the lines.
On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, at 22:26, svetlana wrote:
Hi all.
I understand the Engineering folks used superprotect instead of /undoing/ the edit and adding 'This is a WMF action.' in edit summary. Could I please be enlightened on the reasoning behind that?
I suppose people could go and try editing other JS pages and cause havoc, but that's still possible where superprotect only affects a single page and not a namespace. Or can entire namespaces be protected and this new user right was intended to be able to prevent that easily?
This is worded poorly, I mean - "or can entire namespaces be protected and the new user right was intended as a means to easily revoke mediawiki:* access?
Svetlana.
svetlana