https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22707
Summary: Cascading page protection for /Print template subpages
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: any
Platform: All
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template_tal
k:Documentation&oldid=346847330#.2FPrint
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: Collection
AssignedTo: supp...@pediapress.com
ReportedBy: tstarl...@wikimedia.org
Some Wikipedians have raised concerns that non-existent /Print subpages of
high-use templates are not adequately protected. For instance, someone could
vandalise the print version of millions of articles, by creating a /Print
subpage of a protected high-use template. Sensitive pages such as the main page
could also be vandalised, by bypassing the "cascade protection" feature which
normally prevents templates included from certain articles from being edited.
This vandalism might not be detected for some time.
See the URL above for related discussion. Various ideas for fixing this issue
were suggested at that talk page. For the moment, I would recommend a
relatively simple change: make the page protection of the parent template also
apply to /Print subpage.
To do this, you would add hooks to Title::loadRestrictions() and
Title::getTitleProtection(). These hooks would be intercepted by the Collection
extension, which would determine whether the title in question is a /Print
subpage, and if it is, it would re-enter the Title class to fetch protection
levels for the parent page.
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