User talk:Pyrrhus/AdminRequests
re: Ideas on page protection and associated user groups/rights[edit source | reply | new]
User:Notjusttired - both tasks above need you to be in the Administrators user group. You will be able to export files from a wiki but not important them. MediaWiki:Licenses needs "edit interface" permissions, which only admins have at the moment. Although we could requests for several be permission groups to be setup - perhaps involving autopromote, eg accounts at least 1 year old with a minimum of 1,000 edits or something, and perhaps also being autoconfirmed users. A separate "Interface-admins" group would be useful too. I don't know if it's possible but it would be very useful to have the ability to be added to a group then have that access only for 1 or 2 weeks, so it could be easily granted only for specific tasks. A different option would be to set certain interfaces pages often edited to autoconfirmed only. A template-admins group allowing edits of all templates plus use of Special:Export would be handy too. notjusttired (talk) 16:46, August 16, 2019 (EDT)
- Interesting ideas! Hopefully, once we're done with the internationalization, the interface messages won't be changed much in the future. But I like your idea about template permissions. We could set edit permissions for the entire "Template:" namespace to be restricted to autoconfirmed users with $wgGroupPermissions.
- Pyrrhus (talk) 19:54, August 16, 2019 (EDT)
re: Whether MediaWiki:Licenses allows for internationalization of license descriptions[edit source | reply | new]
I'm thinking that MediaWiki:Licenses should allow system messages - in which case all English text can be replaced with system messages. Via my user page I've tagged a few editors that be able to translate parts of that page, eg "I made this myself". There's one for the "Public domain" text in the suggested edit above. notjusttired (talk) 16:46, August 16, 2019 (EDT)
