On Aug 11, 2014 7:11 AM, "Kim Bruning" <k...@bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>
> Ha, you'd think so! ;-)
>
> In reality so far, the only known application was to lock the common.js
> at de.wikipedia, to prevent some crazy admin(s) from breaking the wiki.
>
>
> Which incidentally shows that "will not break the wiki" really IS the
> minimal admin criterion, and is not trivial at all }:-)
>
> sincerely,
>         Kim
>
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:19:27PM +1000, K. Peachey wrote:
> > Lets all welcome the new overlord Erik.
> >
> > Add a new protection level called "superprotect"
> > Assigned to nobody by default. Requested by Erik M??ller for the
purposes
> > of protecting pages such that sysop permissions are not sufficient to
> >
> >
> > edit them.
> > Change-Id: Idfa211257dbacc7623d42393257de1525ff01e9e
> > <
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#q,Idfa211257dbacc7623d42393257de1525ff01e9e,n,z
>
> >
> > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/153302/
> >
> >
> >
> > Someone clearly can't take criticism of their projects well.
>
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No one "broke the wiki" by disabling unwanted functions following a clear
consensus. True breaking changes to those pages would be reverted by other
admins before you could blink.
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