Even ignoring the original problem, we have wgNamespaceProtection, wouldn't it make sense to have wgNamespaceCascadingProtection?
*-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mw namespace pages that expand templates generally arent the scary ones > from an anon editing prespective. I don't think this is really neccesary, > and can mostly be dealt with socially when needed. > > -bawolff > > P.s. $5 says someone will probably come up with an exception with in 10 > seconds of me making such a statement. > > On 2013-04-20 2:08 PM, "Techman224" <techman...@techman224.ca> wrote: > > > > Some people are not aware of this, and they use templates to style > Mediawiki messages. If the administrator forgets to protect the template, > it opens up a backdoor for other users to edit the message. > > > > Techman224 > > > > On 2013-04-20, at 4:25 AM, Petr Kadlec <petr.kad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On 20 April 2013 07:08, Techman224 <techman...@techman224.ca> wrote: > > > > > >> Right now the MediaWiki namespace is protected from editing. However, > if > > >> you add a template to a Mediawiki message and the template is > unprotected, > > >> any user could edit the message by editing the template, creating a > > >> backdoor. > > >> > > > > > > Ummm... Don't do that, then? Sometimes you _want_ to include pieces of > text > > > editable by more than just sysops (say, by autoconfirmed users), so you > use > > > a template from a MediaWiki message. (Cf. e.g. > > > https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Recentchangestext and > > > https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0ablona:Ozn%C3%A1men%C3%ADRC.) Or, > you > > > do not want to do that, then why are you using an unprotected template? > > > Either transclude another page in MediaWiki namespace as a template > > > ({{MediaWiki:Something}}), or make sure you protect the used template > (with > > > possible cascade). > > > > > > -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]] > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
