finiki:Protection policy
 | This page documents a finiki policy, a widely accepted standard that all editors should normally follow. Changes made to it should reflect consensus. |
 | This page in a nutshell: While finiki strives to be as open as possible, sometimes it is necessary to limit editing of certain pages to prevent disruptive edits. |
A protected page is a page where normal users are prevented from editing and/or moving at all. Only a user with sysop permissions can edit or move a protected page. Likewise only administrators can protect a page in the first place, or unprotect the page to lift the restriction.
Page protection limits collaboration on the wiki content, and should be avoided where possible.
finiki has a small group of editors
On finiki there is no anonymous editing allowed and only a small number of active editors. For the most part these two facts reduce the requirement for widespread use of page protection.
As a result the general finiki policy is avoid page protection almost everywhere, including pages imported from Wikipedia that have page protection on Wikipedia.
Templates and modules imported from Wikipedia
On Wikipedia page protection generally is applied to Wikipedia:High-risk templates – those used on a large number of pages or frequently substituted – are often edit protected based on the degree of visibility, type of use, content, and other considerations. All templates, template redirects, and Lua modules that have been identified by the Wikipedia community as being of high risk to Wikipedia. If fully protected, so that they can only be edited by administrators, or template-protected, so that they can only be edited by administrators and template editors, these pages should be edited cautiously, and consensus should be established for any changes that might be controversial. If semi-protected or extended-confirmed protected, templates and modules may be edited by any established user, but users should ensure there is consensus for their edits and avoid edit wars.
The most common reasons a template or module is considered high-risk are:
- It is used in a permanently highly visible location, and it is not cascade protected.
- It is transcluded into a very large number of pages.
- It is substituted extremely frequently by multiple users on an ongoing basis (for example, templates used to warn users about inappropriate editing).
Protected templates should normally have the {{documentation}} template. It loads the unprotected /doc page, so that non-admins can edit the documentation, categories and interwiki links. It also automatically adds {{pp-template}} to protected templates, which displays a small padlock in the top right corner and categorizes the template as protected.
finiki utilizes a substantial number of templates from Wikipedia and many of them are protected on Wikipedia. The finiki administrators use the Import from another wiki to add or update these templates (and modules). However this does not automatically apply the page protection from Wikipedia and thus it must be completed manually. It is often overlooked and not of much concern because finiki has a small group of editors