I think the problem is that your question does not really relate to the
subject line, Svetlana. Office actions are specifically directed at
content (e.g., removal of specific content for copyvio reasons or court
orders). Office actions are almost never undertaken by Engineering staff;
it's usually Legal & Community Advocacy staff, or rarely another
administrative staff member.
What you are talking about is something that has only been done very
occasionally over the years by Engineering/Operations staff/sysadmins.
There has been no designated manner in which those actions should be
flagged. One must remember that until the last few years, the majority of
individuals who could have taken (and in some cases, did take) such serious
action were volunteer sysadmins, so labeling it a "WMF action" would not
have been correct. We also have to remember that many of the systems that
developers and engineers work with on a daily basis do not permit edit
summaries, so adding what for many of us is an automatic and routine
comment is for some of them a rare and unusual event. (Perhaps they should
set their work account preferences to be "reminded" to include an edit
summary?)
Risker/Anne
On 22 August 2014 11:50, svetlana <svetlana(a)fastmail.com.au> wrote:
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
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