Author: saibotrash
Description:
... only protecting against uploads (and file version reverts) is a low side-effects measure against edit/upload wars. However it doesn't seem to work.
Does somebody know if that is a bug or a feature? http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:AaatestSonnepalmenstrand-portrait_new.jpg&action=history The page is upload=sysop protected and it works (I cannot upload with my test account). But the testaccount can revert to another file version. This is pretty stupid since I thought it isn't enough at upload edit wars to upload protect ([[COM:P]] should be adjusted then)... Also that is a bad choice for high-visibility files which have more than one version. Mediawiki displays the reverts as "uploads" - but apparently doesn't apply the protection status. I would have assumed that it protects against that reverts. First because it is useful, second because mediawiki [//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=File%3AAaatestSonnepalmenstrand-portrait+new.jpg titles the reverts as uploads in the logs] Asked in Wikimedia tech channel on IRC but got no answer.
I tried again at "my" file: [[:File:AaatestSonnepalmenstrand-portrait_new.jpg#filehistory]] Of, course - still the same.
User:Bidgee in [[commons:COM:VP#upload protection doesn't work for reverts]] seemed to agree that this is a bug and not a feature.
Version: 1.18.x
Severity: normal