On 20 April 2013 10:07, Techman224 techman224@techman224.ca wrote:
Some people are not aware of this, and they use templates to style Mediawiki messages. If the administrator forgets to protect the template, it opens up a backdoor for other users to edit the message.
Incompetent sysops are a community problem; you can't usefully deal with these kind of issues in software. :-)
The English Wikipedia, for one, uses this feature intentionally to allow page-specific edit notices; they are transcluded (via a number of templates, yay fun) into the MediaWiki:Editnotice-0 etc. items on a per-page basis. The general namespace templates and page-specific transclusion templates are protected, but more from the "this is a major template that could break things" perspective.
J. -- James D. Forrester jdforrester@gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity)