Last modified: 2013-06-18 16:42:21 UTC
I have just been testing out MediaWiki on localhost before using it for my website, the install went well. However, the protection logs seem a bit out of place, with the expiry time before the reason field, as with this example: * 17:57, 14 September 2008 WikiSysop (Talk | contribs | block) protected "Test page" ([create=sysop] (indefinite)) (Preventing re-creation of testing content) (hist) (change) * 17:38, 14 September 2008 WikiSysop (Talk | contribs | block) protected "Main Page" ([edit=sysop] (indefinite) [move=sysop] (indefinite) ) (High traffic page: high-visibility) (hist) (change) Surely it should be: * 17:57, 14 September 2008 WikiSysop (Talk | contribs | block) protected "Test page" (Preventing re-creation of testing content [create=sysop]) (hist) (change) * 17:38, 14 September 2008 WikiSysop (Talk | contribs | block) protected "Main Page" (High-traffic page:High visibility [edit=sysop:move=sysop]) (hist) (change) Thank you for adding a new reason field, as with blocking and deletion. I think that if protection is indefinite it doesn't need to be mentioned, but that the edit expiry should be like this: [edit=sysop expiry date (UTC):move=sysop] if expiry is just set for edit=autoconfirmed/sysop restriction or [edit=sysop:move=sysop expiry date(UTC)] as it was before for both edit/move protection.
I should add this only applies to the latest trunk build from SVN, which I am using at the moment.
The expiry time was moved before the reason in r40713, so that the details wouldn't get cut off if a long reason was used. I added the (indefinite) in r40770, so as to avoid confusion. Prior to 40770 each protection type (edit/move) used the same expiry time, so you would have something like "[edit=sysop:move=sysop] (expires 15:02, 18 September 2008 (UTC)" for protection that expired on 18 September, and "[edit=sysop:move=sysop]" for indefinite protection. However, with 2 separate expiry times, "[edit=sysop] [move=sysop] (expires 15:02, 18 September 2008 (UTC)" is vague, it would mean that [edit=sysop] is indefinite, but it looks like they both expire on 18 September due to the similarity to the old log type.
The reason field should be before the edit/move/create=sysop bit, though.
Sorry... still getting used to it, probably because I was so used to seeing edit=sysop move=sysop or edit=autoconfirmed move=autoconfirmed a lot. I'm surprised that test.wikipedia didn't update to it there.
