FYI, Lila had chosen to engage in discussion on her meta talk page.
Numerous editors are commenting there. Discussion also continues on the
meta RFC and on the English Wikipedia arbitration workshop page.
Pine
On Aug 14, 2014 12:03 AM, "Russavia" wrote:
Erik
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 5:32 AM, Eri
>> Admins are currently given broad leeway to customize the user
>> experience for all users, including addition of site-wide JS, CSS,
>> etc. These are important capabilities of the wiki that have been
>> used for many clearly beneficial purposes. In the long run, we will
>> want to apply a code
On 8/10/14, 6:27 AM, Erik Moeller wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Admins are currently given broad leeway to customize the user
> experience for all users, including addition of site-wide JS, CSS,
> etc. These are important capabilities of the wiki that have been
> used for many clearly beneficial purpos
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 6:54 PM, John Mark Vandenberg
wrote:
> Was this functionality was ever supported by MediaWiki core?
Of course this is supported by MediaWiki core, although I cannot attest as
to whether it was previously implemented on WMF wikis.
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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:49 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:01 PM, John Mark Vandenberg
> wrote:
>
>> Before this, there was no expectation that a page could be protected
>> such that sysops could not alter the content of the superprotected
>> page.
>>
>
> This is fal
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:01 PM, John Mark Vandenberg
wrote:
> Before this, there was no expectation that a page could be protected
> such that sysops could not alter the content of the superprotected
> page.
>
This is false.
> Now, the devs/ops have attempted to introduce that capability, and
This is, by far, the most disgusting and disrespectful action
undertaken by the Foundation that I have ever witnessed. The 2012 mass
desysopping of volunteer administrators on the WMF wiki and the past
threats of desysopping users re: VisualEditor and MediaViewer do not
even come close to this.
It
