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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] A quiet revolution
From:       "Andrew Gray" <shimgray () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-01-31 23:45:34
Message-ID: f3fedb0d0701311545h113f1148hd999d39ed27eb1b1 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 31/01/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond@internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:

> > If that was deliberate, I would have called it a surpassingly
> > beautiful hack. But it's serendipitous. That's somehow even *better*.
>
> So dare I ask, what's the oversight on this?  I'm waiting for the first
> day an article is protected that has never been created, in particular.

Well, pre-emptively protecting [[deliberate example redlink]] may be
doable now ;-)

In all seriousness, though, the oversight is that it can easily be
seen what pages are protected in this way - the central "transclusion"
page for these is public, and can be watched easily enough.

(I suppose people can sneakily cascade-protect trivial obscure
subpages with fake transcludes... but, then, they could do
deleted-protected on pages which had never been created under the old
system, too. So no new way of being a dick...)

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk

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