Given that MediaWiki namespace pages are already admin-only, not really.

On 11 August 2015 at 12:44, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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" <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> 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
>> >
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