I think the problem is that your question does not really relate to the subject line, Svetlana. Office actions are specifically directed at content (e.g., removal of specific content for copyvio reasons or court orders). Office actions are almost never undertaken by Engineering staff; it's usually Legal & Community Advocacy staff, or rarely another administrative staff member.
What you are talking about is something that has only been done very occasionally over the years by Engineering/Operations staff/sysadmins. There has been no designated manner in which those actions should be flagged. One must remember that until the last few years, the majority of individuals who could have taken (and in some cases, did take) such serious action were volunteer sysadmins, so labeling it a "WMF action" would not have been correct. We also have to remember that many of the systems that developers and engineers work with on a daily basis do not permit edit summaries, so adding what for many of us is an automatic and routine comment is for some of them a rare and unusual event. (Perhaps they should set their work account preferences to be "reminded" to include an edit summary?) Risker/Anne On 22 August 2014 11:50, svetlana <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm sorry to repeat, but I would like to hear some thoughts on this > question. Also added a clarification for one of the lines. > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2014, at 22:26, svetlana wrote: > > > > Hi all. > > > > I understand the Engineering folks used superprotect instead of > /undoing/ the edit and adding 'This is a WMF action.' in edit summary. > Could I please be enlightened on the reasoning behind that? > > > > I suppose people could go and try editing other JS pages and cause > havoc, but that's still possible where superprotect only affects a single > page and not a namespace. Or can entire namespaces be protected and this > new user right was intended to be able to prevent that easily? > > This is worded poorly, I mean - "or can entire namespaces be protected and > the new user right was intended as a means to easily revoke mediawiki:* > access? > > > > > Svetlana. > > svetlana > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/[email protected]> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ 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>
