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 making such a statement. On 2013-04-20 2:08 PM, "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. > > Techman224 > > On 2013-04-20, at 4:25 AM, Petr Kadlec <petr.kad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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. > >> > > > > Ummm... Don't do that, then? Sometimes you _want_ to include pieces of text > > editable by more than just sysops (say, by autoconfirmed users), so you use > > a template from a MediaWiki message. (Cf. e.g. > > https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Recentchangestext and > > https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0ablona:Ozn%C3%A1men%C3%ADRC.) Or, you > > do not want to do that, then why are you using an unprotected template? > > Either transclude another page in MediaWiki namespace as a template > > ({{MediaWiki:Something}}), or make sure you protect the used template (with > > possible cascade). > > > > -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]] > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
