https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23133

--- Comment #8 from Jeff G. <[email protected]> 2011-02-12 04:58:34 
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(In reply to comment #7)
> *** Bug 27335 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I added the following text to bug 27335 relevant to this bug:
> Summary: Implement technical measures to prevent image vandalism on English 
> Wikipedia Main Page
> URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
> The problems are highlighted on
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators/Requests/%CE%94 . 
Solutions could include: cross-platform cascade protection; technical measures
to prevent commits of edits to that page if any of the included images are not
protected with edit=sysop and move=sysop or are not on English Wikipedia;
technical measures to prevent display of any of the included images which are
not protected with edit=sysop and move=sysop or are not on English Wikipedia;
creation of a new right to edit that page; etc.
> Currently, the only vandalism by non-admins that can happen there (the English
Wikipedia Main Page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page ) is through images
... An unprotected image from Commons is used: a vandal uploads a replacement
image on Commons. ... that page "has been viewed
167010381 times in the last 30 days." (an average of over 5.5 million hits per
day) per http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Main_Page .
Another suggested solution on that request page is creating a new user group
"Protectors" on Commons with right "Change protection levels and edit protected
pages (protect)" to allow a non-admin bot (or one or more humans in case of bot
failure) to apply the protection on Commons.

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