Would keeping sensitive pages in wikitext format under "full protection" (meaning that only local administrators can edit) be sufficient?
Pine On Aug 11, 2015 9:38 AM, "Oliver Keyes" <oke...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I am familiar with other incidents myself, and would not consider > moving away from the existing system "premature optimization". I would > consider it "sanity". We exist in a situation where wikis can > individually customise, say, the copyright release associated with > edits. Changing that is A Good Thing. > > On 11 August 2015 at 12:29, Luis Villa <lvi...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> We currently have editable pages on Wikimedia sites with important legal > >> strings, and AFAIK no one has caused a noteworthy incident by editing or > >> vandalizing them. > > > > > > There are several cases that I'm aware of where legally-significant text > > was edited in legally-meaningful ways for varying lengths of time, > ranging > > from hours to (in some cases) months. Without going into details, for > > example, one edit made us non-compliant with California law in a way that > > had opened up other large websites to large fines. Thankfully none of > them > > have been used against us, that I know of, so perhaps locking them down > > would be a case of premature optimization. > > > > Luis > > > > -- > > Luis Villa > > Sr. Director of Community Engagement > > Wikimedia Foundation > > *Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely > share > > in the sum of all knowledge.* > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Count Logula > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > 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
