[WikiEN-l] Allowing blocked users to edit their own talk page, done

Fri Jul 8 12:12:27 UTC 2005

What a brilliant move. Thank you, Tim. :)

~Mark Ryan

On 7/8/05, Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
> > Kelly Martin (kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com) [050708 03:02]:
> >
> >>On 7/7/05, Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>I could do a quick hack to allow blocked users to edit their own talk
> >>>page, if that's what you want. It's a much simpler feature to the other
> >>>thing I'm working on at the moment, i.e. per-article blocking.
> 
> This is done, enabled on en only. It can be enabled on other wikis on
> request.
> 
> 
> >>Some people will use that to replace their talk pages with technically
> >>challenging content (e.g. two megabyte uploads, or pages filled with
> >>hundreds of animated images).  But I think we can deal with that in
> >>the long run.
> >
> >
> >
> > Lock the page if need be?
> 
> Yes, protection is the way to deal with this.
> 
> -- Tim Starling
> 
> _______________________________________________
> WikiEN-l mailing list
> WikiEN-l at Wikipedia.org
> http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
>