[Wikipedia-l] Page protection interface updates

Thu Dec 22 07:13:23 UTC 2005

I've gone ahead and committed the new page protection UI. This allows seeing 
exactly what a page is set to, and logs a bit more information; so no more "hey, 
is this page really protected or just protected against moves?".

It's a bit more complex, but hopefully not too scary.

Additionally there's a new level between unprotected/default permissions and 
sysop-only; this is set up on en.wikipedia.org and will restrict edits by 
unregistered users and accounts less than four days old.

(This is to implement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SEMI )

There's now a timestamp field on the user table for the registration date, which 
is used to calculate the age (this'll be included on newly registered accounts 
but is NULL on older ones).

The age setting replaces the percentage formerly used for the sitewide move 
limitations.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)