[WikiEN-l] Re: Vandalism concerns with commons images

Wed Sep 14 08:18:20 UTC 2005

I'm not sure if the focus of this discussion is clear to everyone. As I 
understand it, the primary concern is with preventing vandalism of 
prominently placed images, such as those on the Main Page. This is 
handled by protecting the images. I take it that this is the only 
administrative function UninvitedCompany (and others who would like 
Commons to adopt more liberal adminship policies) proposes to use there. 
Nobody is going to be going on blocking or deleting sprees.

This would be a good candidate for a technical solution, specifically 
using the MediaWiki feature of user access levels. If the only adminship 
function you need on Commons is protection, for the purpose of 
protecting another project from vandalism, then it should be routine to 
grant (only) that function to anyone who's an admin on said project. It 
might even be possible to make this automatically part of adminship once 
single login is implemented, but at that point I feel like I'm wandering 
into pipe dream territory.

--Michael Snow