On 20 April 2013 07:08, Techman224 techman...@techman224.ca wrote:
Right now the MediaWiki namespace is protected from editing. However, if
you add a template to a Mediawiki message and the template is unprotected,
any user could edit the message by editing the template, creating a
backdoor.
Some people are not aware of this, and they use templates to style Mediawiki
messages. If the administrator forgets to protect the template, it opens up a
backdoor for other users to edit the message.
Techman224
On 2013-04-20, at 4:25 AM, Petr Kadlec petr.kad...@gmail.com wrote:
On 20 April
On 20 April 2013 10:07, Techman224 techman...@techman224.ca wrote:
Some people are not aware of this, and they use templates to style
Mediawiki messages. If the administrator forgets to protect the
template, it opens up a backdoor for other users to edit the
message.
Incompetent sysops are a
Mw namespace pages that expand templates generally arent the scary ones
from an anon editing prespective. I don't think this is really neccesary,
and can mostly be dealt with socially when needed.
-bawolff
P.s. $5 says someone will probably come up with an exception with in 10
seconds of me
Even ignoring the original problem, we have wgNamespaceProtection, wouldn't
it make sense to have wgNamespaceCascadingProtection?
*-- *
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015
Major in Computer Science
www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 3:42
It would have to be dependant on wgNamespaceProtection being set, else anyone
could protect any page using transclusion.
Techman224
On 2013-04-20, at 6:17 PM, Tyler Romeo tylerro...@gmail.com wrote:
Even ignoring the original problem, we have wgNamespaceProtection, wouldn't
it make sense to
Right now the MediaWiki namespace is protected from editing. However, if you
add a template to a Mediawiki message and the template is unprotected, any user
could edit the message by editing the template, creating a backdoor. There is
no option to cascade protect MediaWiki messages on wiki, and
This sounds like an issue. If others agree, I could work on this.
On Apr 20, 2013 1:09 AM, Techman224 techman...@techman224.ca wrote:
Right now the MediaWiki namespace is protected from editing. However, if
you add a template to a Mediawiki message and the template is unprotected,
any user
Why not just protect the template when you add it? I think you may be
over thinking this just a tad.
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