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Im not sure about protections. Moving I can see, but protections could be more trouble than its worth. (the odd user, throwing his weight around, to protect a page he wants preserving). How would this be accountable? Could the privileged be revoked? --{{User:Rosslessness/Sig}} 20:50, 12 November 2008 (UTC) | Im not sure about protections. Moving I can see, but protections could be more trouble than its worth. (the odd user, throwing his weight around, to protect a page he wants preserving). How would this be accountable? Could the privileged be revoked? --{{User:Rosslessness/Sig}} 20:50, 12 November 2008 (UTC) | ||
:No, sysops still protect if this is active. Semi-protection means you can limit the editors to established, autoconfirmed users, making them more trouble to vandalise. -- {{User:Krazy_Monkey/sig}} 20:52, 12 November 2008 (UTC) | :No, sysops still protect if this is active. Semi-protection means you can limit the editors to established, autoconfirmed users, making them more trouble to vandalise. -- {{User:Krazy_Monkey/sig}} 20:52, 12 November 2008 (UTC) | ||
::Yup, theory being that few vandals will bother to make 50 good edits for the sake of vandalising one page (Which | ::Yup, theory being that few vandals will bother to make 50 good edits for the sake of vandalising one page (Which would likely be reverted in 2 minutes flat, being a high-visibility page). It makes vandalism-sprees all but impossible.--{{User:The General/sig}} 20:54, 12 November 2008 (UTC) |
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The Science.
SO is this a current feature that can be used, or would it require an upgrade? --RosslessnessWant a Location Image? 20:24, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
- Offhand, I think it is a current feature. =/ I'm not sure though. -- Cheese 20:25, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
$wgGroupPermissions['autoconfirmed']['move'] = true;
changing: $wgAutoConfirmAge = 0; to $wgAutoConfirmAge = 3600*24*2
and: $wgAutoConfirmCount = 0; to $wgAutoConfirmCount = 50;--The General T Sys U! P! F! 20:43, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
What is semi-protection? --Toejam 20:46, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
- Users who are autoconfirmed can edit it and those who aren't can't. In other words, newly created accounts can't while established users can. -- Cheese 20:48, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
Im not sure about protections. Moving I can see, but protections could be more trouble than its worth. (the odd user, throwing his weight around, to protect a page he wants preserving). How would this be accountable? Could the privileged be revoked? --RosslessnessWant a Location Image? 20:50, 12 November 2008 (UTC)