On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> 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 purposes. In the long run, we will want to > apply a code review process to these changes as with any other > deployed code, but for now the system works as it is and we have no > intent to remove this capability. > > However, we've clarified in a number of venues that use of the > MediaWiki: namespace to disable site features is unacceptable. If such > a conflict arises, we're prepared to revoke permissions if required. > This protection level provides an additional path to manage these > situations by preventing edits to the relevant pages (we're happy to > help apply any urgent edits) until a particular situation has calmed > down.
erik, this was designed so, and worked well exactly like this. administrators are voted, and there are hundreds which work together. if it is wise process to review a change by another administrator implement it like this. that has to be enough. it worked well 5 years ago when we had most new editors joining. if you cannot convince the admins about a change, there is strong evidence that something else is wrong - not the user rights. rupert _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
