Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

2014-08-14 Thread Pine W
FYI, Lila had chosen to engage in discussion on her meta talk page. Numerous editors are commenting there. Discussion also continues on the meta RFC and on the English Wikipedia arbitration workshop page. Pine On Aug 14, 2014 12:03 AM, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: Erik On Thu,

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

2014-08-13 Thread Derric Atzrott
Admins are currently given broad leeway to customize the user experience for all users, including addition of site-wide JS, CSS, etc. These are important capabilities of the wiki that have been used for many clearly beneficial purposes. In the long run, we will want to apply a code review

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

2014-08-12 Thread Legoktm
On 8/10/14, 6:27 AM, Erik Moeller wrote: Hi folks, Admins are currently given broad leeway to customize the user experience for all users, including addition of site-wide JS, CSS, etc. These are important capabilities of the wiki that have been used for many clearly beneficial purposes.

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

2014-08-11 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:01 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Before this, there was no expectation that a page could be protected such that sysops could not alter the content of the superprotected page. This is false. Now, the devs/ops have attempted to introduce that

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

2014-08-11 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:49 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:01 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Before this, there was no expectation that a page could be protected such that sysops could not alter the content of the

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

2014-08-11 Thread Tyler Romeo
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 6:54 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Was this functionality was ever supported by MediaWiki core? Of course this is supported by MediaWiki core, although I cannot attest as to whether it was previously implemented on WMF wikis. *-- * *Tyler Romeo*