[Wikipedia-l] Cascading protection

[Gurch]

J.L.W.S. The Special One wrote:
> Does this mean that if a page receives cascading protection, all
> templates/images on it will be automatically protected (and will be
> automatically unprotected when removed from the page with cascading
> protection)? This would completely eliminate Main Page vandalism.
> 
> I understand that consensus is against semi-protection of Main Page
> Featured Articles, but recent statistics have shown that Main Page
> Featured Articles are in a vandalised state for 6-10% of the 24-hour
> duration that they are on the Main Page (the actual figures are likely
> to be higher, as template vandalism and vandalism by registered users
> was not counted). Hence, we should seriously consider applying
> cascading semi-protection to Main Page Featured Articles.
> 
> On 1/14/07, Luna <lunasantin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ohh, I just tested this a bit. Works pretty much the way I was hoping for.
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Only thing I might bug ye about -- what are the relevant MediaWiki messages?
>> The main one, I think, would be whatever indicates the page has been
>> affected by cascading protection.
>>
>> Hm, I also see that it shows up, when using &action=protect -- are there any
>> other circumstances in which the cascading effect will be apparent? I'm
>> mainly thinking of non-admins, here. Unless we're planning on using this
>> infrequently enough that this isn't a major issue.
>>
>> -Luna

I'm not quite sure what *cascading* semi-protection would achieve here. 
All templates transcluded onto Today's Featured Article are routinely 
fully protected now (semi-protection is no use against the kind of 
vandal that hunts down unprotected templates), so this would only have 
the same effect as normal semi-protection, which is already applied if 
vandalism gets particularly bad.

-Gurch