Please delete my name from your mailing list.
www.wmoskowitz@aol.com
William Moskowitz
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Gries <mail(a)tgries.de>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, Apr 24, 2014 6:27 pm
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki template page edit by IP?
Hello,
recently I saw this edit of a template page on MediaWiki
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:RSSPost&oldid=9792…
by an anon.
Do we really have the template Namespace on MediaWiki open for edits
by anons?
In the past, /this /page was indeed a vey /sensitive /template because
it determined the rendering of RSS feeds on MediaWiki pages. This was
the reason why I was surprised yesterday, that it could be edited by
someone without an account.
On /enwiki /I know many templates which are fully protected. This is why
I expected that our documentation and developer MediaWiki wiki also
protects Template pages. This was apparently not the case.
Regarding the Template:Repost page:
I deleted that specific page. it is not used any more, because the
Extension:RSS only since a while templates from the (system messages)
MediaWiki:namespace, which is protected by default.
_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list
Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l