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Add option to semi/fully-protect Flow board descriptions
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Please add a way to semi/fully-protect the board description.

Because, some board descriptions get improperly used as a sandbox, or for spam, a lot.
E.g. (ctrl-F for "description")

(Suggested at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_talk:Support_desk#Protect_the_description.3F )

For context, it is currently possible to protect the full board, but not just the description.

We can do this by reusing the existing MODERATED_LOCKED state, adding a new right (flow-lock-header) (flow-lock is given out to all users), and adding the UI. This would provide for full-protection.

See also: T57851: Create a separate history page for the flow board description area

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Quiddity created this task.Sep 27 2015, 8:11 PM
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Catrope triaged this task as Medium priority.Sep 30 2015, 11:35 PM
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Quiddity mentioned this in T114331: Add option to semi/fully-protect flow topics.Oct 1 2015, 12:09 AM
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• Mattflaschen-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 11 2016, 10:54 PM
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• Mattflaschen-WMF merged a task: T123277: Protection for Flow board description only.
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Quiddity merged a task: T126986: Provide a user group right to protect Flow descriptions.Mar 2 2016, 11:20 PM
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Trizek-WMF added a comment.Mar 22 2016, 10:27 AM

New request from fr.wp. Is it possible to improve description protection?

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• jmatazzoni moved this task from Flow Holding Area to Near-Term Interest on the Collaboration-Team-Triage board.Apr 29 2016, 12:44 AM
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Kenrick95 added a comment.May 2 2016, 9:42 AM

After activating Flow at id.wikipedia (T133254), the fifth revision by new users on that flow board is already vandalism on description. Reverting the edit is not straightforward too as the history page is cluttered with other revisions (e.g. replies on the posts). Hence, I'd like to see this task having some priority. Thanks :)

• Mattflaschen-WMF updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 10 2016, 6:55 PM
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Proposed a way to do this.

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• Whatamidoing-WMF subscribed.Oct 18 2016, 3:54 PM

@Catrope, how soon could this be fixed? Semi-protection would be helpful for the descriptions on a few boards at mw.org. (I don't want full protection – just something that signals to IPs and newbies that they're probably in the wrong place.)

Ciencia_Al_Poder added a comment.Oct 18 2016, 6:55 PM
In T113902#2725744, @Whatamidoing-WMF wrote:

I don't want full protection

Note that currently there's no full protection option neither, but both options should exist, just choose whatever you want.

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Trizek-WMF mentioned this in T167928: Improve structured discussion features for the communities that use them, based on user feedback and prioritising technical debt.Jun 23 2017, 8:13 AM
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Aklapper merged a task: T183849: Add protection to the description of StructuredDiscussion pages.Jan 2 2018, 11:07 AM
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Trizek-WMF added a parent task: T85563: StructuredDiscussions history page issues (tracking).Jan 16 2018, 9:55 AM
Trizek-WMF edited parent tasks, added: T170360: Moderation and protection feature parity in Flow (tracking); removed: T85563: StructuredDiscussions history page issues (tracking).
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alaa added a comment.Sep 12 2018, 9:29 PM

Hello, any progress (or expected progress) here?

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Dinoguy1000 added a comment.May 23 2020, 6:48 PM

This can be sort-of done using AbuseFilter, e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/58, but it's not ideal.

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