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 >> > >> > -- >> > 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 >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> >> >> >> -- >> Oliver Keyes >> Count Logula >> Wikimedia Foundation >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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