On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 6:35 PM Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> Of course, it's more difficult to extend cascading protection to Wikidata > because Wikidata is a different wiki (even Commons images are not included > in cascading protection last time I checked). Nevertheless, it should be a > goal. > I'm not so sure of that. Some admin on a tiny, little-watched wiki then could cascade-protect arbitrary Commons images and Wikidata items by overusing cascade protection despite not having adminship on Commons or Wikidata. > And maybe—just maybe—getting blocked on one wiki could make one > automatically blocked on wikis that are common repositories, such as > Commons and Wikidata (and perhaps Meta), although this should be > reversible. > Same problem. We'd likely wind up having to have Stewards start policing the use of cascade protection and blocking on all wikis to adjudicate whether one wiki's use of cascade protection or blocking was really trying to disrupt Commons/Wikidata/Meta. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Senior Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
