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 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 PM, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
