Community Wishlist Survey 2019/Archive/Sectional page protection
Sectional page protection
Technically infeasible
- Problem: For protections, the admin have no other option than protecting the whole article while vandalism or disruptive editing is usually limited to only a small part of the article.
- Who would benefit: Admins and the community
- Proposed solution: Finding an easy solution that makes it possible to protect only a specific section or sections of an article. For example en:Jack Kevorkian shows that most unwelcome editing is in the lead and the infobox (calling this born and bred American an Armenian). The limited protection of this article will prevent unwelcome editing in these sections while leaving the rest of the article open for editing.
- More comments:
- Phabricator tickets: T121172
- Proposer: The Banner (talk) 14:04, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
Discussion
- This is probably out of CommTech scope given how much work would be required for it. --Izno (talk) 19:06, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
- Honestly, I have no idea how difficult this is. But I have learned in life that the stupidest question is the one you do not ask. The Banner (talk) 19:53, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
- If a vandal can't edit one section, they can vandalize others, or, worst case, just surround the protected section with comments, hiding it and replacing it with their own content. "Section" is just an element in wikitext to HTML translation, they're too fluid to be practically protectable. MaxSem (WMF) (talk) 06:18, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
- Hmm, if I get the argumentation correctly, it could also be used as an argument to propose per-sentence protection levels, I'd say? I don't think this scales. :) --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 12:48, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
- No, per paragraph/infobox/table is good enough. The Banner (talk) 17:18, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
Archived
Sorry, this is just technically not possible to do reliably. MaxSem (WMF) (talk) 18:42, 13 November 2018 (UTC)