I'm not sure about that, but let's take the Superprotect discussion to a
different thread if we're going to continue on that subject. (:
Back to the subject of Oauth. Legoktm assuming that Superprotect isn't
applied, can you think of a way to protect the relevant pages in wiki page
format that would be sufficient in your view?
Thanks,
Pine
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, therein lies the problem. If a
"community" goes rogue, and wants to
selectively change the copyright terms for their project, stewards (under
the current standards of behaviour) would pretty much be obligated to do
that - even though it's contrary to a lot of other things. We can't put
volunteers into a position where they have to choose between overall WMF
policy and direct requests from projects that are within their scope to
carry out. Frankly, nobody (stewards or otherwise) should be able to
change certain pages without very intense discussion and, in some cases,
Board approval. With employees, they'd lose access immediately and be
reverted before being shown the door for cause - there is a very strong
disincentive to carry out these acts without authorization. For
volunteers, the worst that happens is they'll have permissions removed, and
even that would be a fight as we have seen with past examples; it's
vanishingly unlikely they'd even get blocked, let alone banned.
Risker/Anne
On 11 August 2015 at 14:17, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, the same thought crossed my mind.
Unfortunately, superprotect has
such a well-earned negative reputation in the community that I don't
think
it will ever be welcomed even in situations like
this where it might be
sensible. An alternative might be to devolve the superprotect right to
stewards, who could apply it to certain highly sensitive pages at the
request of the community.
Pine
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