https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18088
Summary: A new protection levels for page editing
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Page editing
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Hello. I just want to put a suggestion on your table. It concerns the article
protection levels.
At present we can effectively control article editing rights on three levels:
(1) just everybody, (2) registered users without newbies only (3) sysops only.
Since I work as a sysop, I thought something was missing here. The level (2) is
vulnerable to users that would register (even with multiple accounts) and wait
for three days to continue pushing their POV or whatever. On the other side,
the level (3) is way too restricting, because it prevents regular users to make
edits on an article.
There seem to be just fine solution to this, as introducing a new level of
protection: autopatrolled users only. I don't know on how many Wikis we have
patrollers and autopatrolled users, but I guess Wikis will tend to have them in
the future. All the same, I think there is sense in allowing sysops to restrict
editing of some articles only to these trusted users. The main advantage of
this protection level would be that exactly the trusted users won't be
disturbed at all by most of page locks.
Thanks for reading.
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