On Jan 23, 2015 8:43 PM, "Matthew Flaschen" <mflasc...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > On 01/22/2015 10:00 PM, Legoktm wrote: >> >> I disagree that we need a "editcontentmodel" user right. I think all >> users should be allowed to change the content model of a page (provided >> they have the right to edit it, etc.). > > > I think that setting a content model different from the namespace's default only makes sense in certain cases. > > E.g. it may not make sense for schema-tized JSON (whether it's Zero config, EventLogging schema, Wikidata JSON etc.) to be outside its dedicated namespace. > > It probably doesn't make sense for CSS files or JS files to exist outside of the MediaWiki and User namespaces, and even in those namespaces, the content model should probably match the end of the title. > > Similarly, dedicated namespaces (e.g. Wikidata's main namespace) should not be able to hold wikitext pages.
From a security perspective, I like limiting the content models per namespace to a relatively small whitelist. I think it will give more flexibility to anyone coming up with new content type definitions if we don't have to worry about "what happen if someone changes main page to this format" or "how do i write a lossless conversion script from a flow page and back, just in case an admin converts a flow page to my new type and back." > > Matt Flaschen > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
