https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71529
Bug ID: 71529
Summary: Allow cascade semi-protection on fully protected pages
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Page editing
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: bas...@yandex.ru
CC: jforres...@wikimedia.org
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In bug 8796 cascade semi-protection has been disabled. Several other bugs were
WONTFIXed 'cause in all of them there still was a breach that non authorized
user could abuse cascade protected pages for making non authorized protections
by transcluding things in them.
What I propose is to make it possible to made cascade semi-protection while the
page protection is being performed under being fully protected or being made
fully protected. This way the only possible "abusers" of the cascading would be
users who can make a normal semi-protection. Are authorized in other words.
(Unless a wiki uses some fancy custom sets of userrights, sure).
This way it would be possible to have e.g. Main page fully protected itself but
all templates (and other transcluded pages) and local images it uses
semi-protected without performing manual per-page protection for e.g. hundreds
of picture of the day templates be semi-protected.
Now it is usually possible to find in a large wiki like Russian Wikipedia a
template transluded to the Main page which is not protected (e.g. a part of a
GA/FA shown and so on). Using cascade full-protection is inadmissible because
this way e.g. DYK blocks contributors wont be able to work except few with a
sysop flag.
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