Auth for large deletions?

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Sun Jan 4 15:30:22 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 08:49:12AM +0000, WikiAdmin wrote:
> The FedoraProject page FUDCon:FUDConF10 has been changed on
> 04:49, 4 January 2009 by anonymous user 83.233.30.38, see
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:FUDConF10 for the current
> version.
> 
> See
> https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=FUDCon:FUDConF10&diff=0&oldid=67589
> for all changes since your last visit.
> 
> Editor's summary: yPcpCeDuDlxsyIQa 
> 
> Contact the editor:
> mail: No e-mail address
> wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:83.233.30.38

This was a vandal who deleted the entire contents of a page and
replaced them with a tiny set of gibberish.  I reverted the change of
course.

Is there a way to require authentication for large changes like this
while still keeping a page editable by the public?

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