I'm not sure about that, but let's take the Superprotect discussion to a different thread if we're going to continue on that subject. (:
Back to the subject of Oauth. Legoktm assuming that Superprotect isn't applied, can you think of a way to protect the relevant pages in wiki page format that would be sufficient in your view? Thanks, Pine On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, therein lies the problem. If a "community" goes rogue, and wants to > selectively change the copyright terms for their project, stewards (under > the current standards of behaviour) would pretty much be obligated to do > that - even though it's contrary to a lot of other things. We can't put > volunteers into a position where they have to choose between overall WMF > policy and direct requests from projects that are within their scope to > carry out. Frankly, nobody (stewards or otherwise) should be able to > change certain pages without very intense discussion and, in some cases, > Board approval. With employees, they'd lose access immediately and be > reverted before being shown the door for cause - there is a very strong > disincentive to carry out these acts without authorization. For > volunteers, the worst that happens is they'll have permissions removed, and > even that would be a fight as we have seen with past examples; it's > vanishingly unlikely they'd even get blocked, let alone banned. > > Risker/Anne > > > > On 11 August 2015 at 14:17, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Yeah, the same thought crossed my mind. Unfortunately, superprotect has > > such a well-earned negative reputation in the community that I don't > think > > it will ever be welcomed even in situations like this where it might be > > sensible. An alternative might be to devolve the superprotect right to > > stewards, who could apply it to certain highly sensitive pages at the > > request of the community. > > > > Pine > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
