On 20 April 2013 07:08, Techman224 techman224@techman224.ca wrote:
Right now the MediaWiki namespace is protected from editing. However, if you add a template to a Mediawiki message and the template is unprotected, any user could edit the message by editing the template, creating a backdoor.
Ummm... Don't do that, then? Sometimes you _want_ to include pieces of text editable by more than just sysops (say, by autoconfirmed users), so you use a template from a MediaWiki message. (Cf. e.g. https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Recentchangestext and https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0ablona:Ozn%C3%A1men%C3%ADRC.) Or, you do not want to do that, then why are you using an unprotected template? Either transclude another page in MediaWiki namespace as a template ({{MediaWiki:Something}}), or make sure you protect the used template (with possible cascade).
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]