Would keeping sensitive pages in wikitext format under
"full protection"
(meaning that only local administrators can edit) be sufficient?
Pine
On Aug 11, 2015 9:38 AM, "Oliver Keyes" <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I am familiar with other incidents myself, and
would not consider
moving away from the existing system "premature optimization". I would
consider it "sanity". We exist in a situation where wikis can
individually customise, say, the copyright release associated with
edits. Changing that is A Good Thing.
On 11 August 2015 at 12:29, Luis Villa <lvilla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Pine W
<wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We currently have editable pages on Wikimedia
sites with important legal
strings, and AFAIK no one has caused a noteworthy incident by editing or
vandalizing them.
There are several cases that I'm aware of where legally-significant text
was edited in legally-meaningful ways for varying lengths of time,
ranging
from hours to (in some cases) months. Without
going into details, for
example, one edit made us non-compliant with California law in a way that
had opened up other large websites to large fines. Thankfully none of
them
have been used against us, that I know of, so
perhaps locking them down
would be a case of premature optimization.
Luis
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