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vertigosteve at yahoo

Sep 14, 2005, 2:16 PM

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Protection specific to anons

I dont do the bugzilla thing, so Im filing this here,
with no expectation or requirement for feedback.

Page protection currently is limited to either no
protection or protection against all but sysops.
Policy places strict limitations on sysop edits of
protected pages.

A second tier of protection may be useful, if it
allows for edits by logged-in users only. This would
be equivalent to a Localsettings.php requiring log-ins
for all edits, only particular for each page. This
could provide for some gradation in how protection is
applied, and save some hassles regarding an the
current on-off system.

SV

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astronouth7303 at gmail

Sep 14, 2005, 4:47 PM

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Re: Protection specific to anons [In reply to]

steve v wrote:
> I dont do the bugzilla thing, so Im filing this here,
> with no expectation or requirement for feedback.
>
> Page protection currently is limited to either no
> protection or protection against all but sysops.
> Policy places strict limitations on sysop edits of
> protected pages.
>
> A second tier of protection may be useful, if it
> allows for edits by logged-in users only. This would
> be equivalent to a Localsettings.php requiring log-ins
> for all edits, only particular for each page. This
> could provide for some gradation in how protection is
> applied, and save some hassles regarding an the
> current on-off system.

In 1.5, there is group-based control for actions. The 1.5 DB schema
seems to support per-page restrictions (not sure if/how MW supports this).

And the logged-in to edit was implemented as an option back in 1.3, I think.

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sy1234 at gmail

Sep 15, 2005, 5:38 AM

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Re: Protection specific to anons [In reply to]

On 9/15/05, steve v <vertigosteve[at]yahoo.com> wrote:
> I dont do the bugzilla thing, so Im filing this here,
> with no expectation or requirement for feedback.

If you care about a feature idea, do the footwork to at least see if
there have been similar requests. Then you can back an existing
request.

Developers quite literally do not care about mailing lists for
collecting ideas. If it doesn't show up in their bug tracker it'll
never be seen by the people who matter to a feature.

It's people like me who might grab interesting ideas for filling a
report with, but it's a slap in the face when someone specifically
opts out of adding it themselves.

In this particular case, security has been a long-discussed issue.
I'm rather interested in it myself. Of note, the team has very
specific opinions of it which have shaped the way security "works" for
MediaWiki. I'm sure their minds won't be changed in this way.

Sigh..
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