Any templates used widely enough that changes to them might cause performance issues are ''already'' protected as a matter of routine.
Note there's currently a discussion on protecting the entire Template namespace and/or creating a template-editor user right. The former is getting shot down in flames. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#RfC_concerning_template_space I don't recall anyone ever proposing flagged revisions for the Template namespace, but can't see it doing much better. Pete / the wub On 8 June 2012 14:42, <[email protected]> wrote: > Why have [[WP:HRT]] used in this way at all? Just make the template > namespace subject to FlaggedRevs. Then you're looking more at protecting > templates so widely used that changes will have a cache-update hit. > That's a performance-driven decision, not a 'political' one > > Brian McNeil > -- > Wikinews, Accredited Reporter. Personal: [email protected] > "Facts don't cease to be facts, but news ceases to be news." > >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Main page seen by library users - where is >> Wikipedia? >> From: Charles Matthews <[email protected]> >> Date: Fri, June 08, 2012 2:39 pm >> To: HJ Mitchell <[email protected]>, UK Wikimedia mailing list >> <[email protected]> >> >> >> On 8 June 2012 14:18, HJ Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Well if you've got the patience, you could go through the recent changes, >> > isolate it to the template namespace, and look for recent reverts and >> > protections. But tracking it down the day after it's happened strikes as a >> > bit like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted. >> >> Given that WP:HRT is explicitly case-by-case, someone needs to make a case. >> >> Charles >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia UK mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l >> WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
