...sigh...
I am not assuming everything is like wikipedia, I just don't see the use. I suppose 'editprotected' can be made a right (since it's easy to do), but it still doesn't make sense to full protect a page and want people to be editing it.
If I had my own serious wiki, I'd make a custom group X for trusted users and make it a new protection level. That would let the trusted users and admins edit, and "trusted" can be whatever I want. Having a top lock DO NOT EDIT THIS level can be useful, with different levels below.
The reason we don't is that, for one, it's very hard to define this group and get the rights out and such, which these smaller (though perhaps still big) wikis would have no problem with. And if they did, they would have the same problems scaling out this 'editprotect' right magiggy thing.
Simetrical-3 wrote:
On 8/17/07, Danny B. Wikipedia.Danny.B@email.cz wrote:
- There's no cascade semi-protection at the moment available
And there shouldn't ever be, unless you want autoconfirmed users to be able to semiprotect pages. You could, however, have full protection that cascades to semiprotection, I guess.
On 8/17/07, Voice of All jschulz_4587@msn.com wrote:
Giving them editprotected sort of rights would put up a high burden of trust, they may as well be an admin. Not to mention that when a page is full-protected, NO ONE should be editing (save simple grammer/spelling fixes maybe), even admins.
You're assuming most wikis are like Wikipedia. They aren't. Many wikis are only semi-open, with protection being used for many content pages. The question is whether we want to encourage that in the default configuration. I suspect we don't.
On 8/17/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Wrong mailing list. The features you want already exist in the code, it's just a matter of the settings for an individual project.
The request was to set the MediaWiki defaults. That is, in fact, a question for the development list (and/or the bug tracker), since it's the developers who decide default software settings for the tarballs that get released. This is also the system administration list, and it's the system administrators who decide the default settings for Wikimedia projects (i.e., when a site hasn't expressed a particular preference), so it's also the correct place for that.
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