Sensitive templates get protected on an as-needed basis. We welcome
contributions from anon users here.


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Martijn Hoekstra <martijnhoeks...@gmail.com
> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Petr Kadlec <petr.kad...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Thomas Gries <m...@tgries.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Do we really have the template Namespace on MediaWiki open for edits by
> > > anons?
> > >
> >
> > Yes. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights
> >
> >
> > > In my view, this should be changed.
> > >
> >
> > Why? Do you know any WMF project where the whole Template namespace is
> > semiprotected?
> >
>
>
> > -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]
> >
>
> Why indeed. Note that the only thing special or magical about the template
> namespace is that {{something}} shortcuts to {{template:something}}. Other
> than that it's just another page.
>
> I have no idea why users of a who are mad enough to want to edit a template
> but don't have an account should be disallowed from doing so, other than
> that we should be making it obligatory to require informed consent before
> exposing anyone to template syntax. As long as we're not doing that for
> logged in users, I frankly can't seen the difference.
>
>
> --Martijn Hoekstra
>
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