On 8/17/07, Danny B. <Wikipedia.Danny.B(a)email.cz> wrote:
* There's no cascade semi-protection at the moment
available
And there shouldn't ever be, unless you want autoconfirmed users to be
able to semiprotect pages. You could, however, have full protection
that cascades to semiprotection, I guess.
On 8/17/07, Voice of All <jschulz_4587(a)msn.com> wrote:
Giving them editprotected sort of rights would put up
a high burden of trust,
they may as well be an admin. Not to mention that when a page is
full-protected, NO ONE should be editing (save simple grammer/spelling fixes
maybe), even admins.
You're assuming most wikis are like Wikipedia. They aren't. Many
wikis are only semi-open, with protection being used for many content
pages. The question is whether we want to encourage that in the
default configuration. I suspect we don't.
On 8/17/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Wrong mailing list. The features you want already
exist in the code,
it's just a matter of the settings for an individual project.
The request was to set the MediaWiki defaults. That is, in fact, a
question for the development list (and/or the bug tracker), since it's
the developers who decide default software settings for the tarballs
that get released. This is also the system administration list, and
it's the system administrators who decide the default settings for
Wikimedia projects (i.e., when a site hasn't expressed a particular
preference), so it's also the correct place for that.