Last modified: 2011-02-12 04:59:46 UTC
The problems are highlighted on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators/Requests/%CE%94 . Solutions could include: cross-platform cascade protection; technical measures to prevent commits of edits to that page if any of the included images are not protected with edit=sysop and move=sysop or are not on English Wikipedia; technical measures to prevent display of any of the included images which are not protected with edit=sysop and move=sysop or are not on English Wikipedia; creation of a new right to edit that page; etc.
Your statement is unclear and contradictory. (In reply to comment #0) > technical measures > to prevent commits of edits to that page if any of the included images are not > protected with edit=sysop and move=sysop or are not on English Wikipedia; What "page", are you refering to the English Wikipedia Main Page? You are saying that we should prevent edits to the Main Page if the images on that page are not protected. How does preventing edits on the main page prevent vandalism with images?
Currently, the only vandalism by non-admins that can happen there (the English Wikipedia Main Page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page ) is through images, in one of the following ways: A. A protected image from Commons is used, but is not copied locally and protected: a vandal uploads a vandalistic image locally. B. An unprotected image from Commons is used: a vandal uploads a replacement image on Commons. I would like to prevent both types of vandalism, as that page "has been viewed 167010381 times in the last 30 days." (an average of over 5.5 million hits per day) per http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Main_Page .
(In reply to comment #2) > Currently, the only vandalism by non-admins that can happen there (the English > Wikipedia Main Page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page ) is through images, > in one of the following ways: > A. A protected image from Commons is used, but is not copied locally and > protected: a vandal uploads a vandalistic image locally. Do you have any evidence that this has happened? This is limited to users with the reupload-shared right, which on the English Wikipedia are administrators. > B. An unprotected image from Commons is used: a vandal uploads a replacement > image on Commons. > I would like to prevent both types of vandalism, as that page "has been viewed > 167010381 times in the last 30 days." (an average of over 5.5 million hits per > day) per http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Main_Page . That makes it a dupe of 23133. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 23133 ***
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > A. A protected image from Commons is used, but is not copied locally and > > protected: a vandal uploads a vandalistic image locally. > Do you have any evidence that this has happened? This is limited to users with > the reupload-shared right, which on the English Wikipedia are administrators. Sorry, I think I was relying on old information from before reupload-shared came into effect there. > > B. An unprotected image from Commons is used: a vandal uploads a replacement > > image on Commons. > > I would like to prevent both types of vandalism, as that page "has been viewed > > 167010381 times in the last 30 days." (an average of over 5.5 million hits per > > day) per http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Main_Page . > That makes it a dupe of 23133. > > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 23133 *** Thank you, I have commented there.
