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00755: Preventing vandalism using $EnableDrafts and Site.Edit

RoadMap: 2.2.0

Description:

Summary

In a thread on the PmWiki mailing list that started with this Preventing Vandalism post requesting solutions, Luigi offered this suggestion for having saves qued for moderator approval and Pm replied with this proposal:

In followup posts, Pico struggled to

• understand how Save As Draft ($EnableDrafts) actually worked,
• identify the source of (his) confusion, and
• explore whether the user interface should be clarified when using $EnableDrafts, and

Lugi provided this helpful distillation and comment:

Proposal

Taken together, these various suggestions can be combined to propose that the labels for buttons be changed:

• on all draft pages, generally (on all sites that use $EnableDrafts): change Save to Publish and Save As Draft to Save (or Save Draft)
• on sites that use Pm's proposal for Preventing Vandalism:
  • draft pages follow general changes above, except hide the newly relabeled Publish button from authors
  • original pages, change Save As Draft to Save for authors (only: no changes for moderator)

Details and examples

In exploring the user interface for $EnableDrafts, it helps to distinguish the different ways that the Save and Save As Draft buttons behave depending on whether the page being edited is the OriginalPage or OriginalPage-Draft:

Current Functions

This table identifies what each button does, depending on whether the page being edited is the original or draft:

Clarifying Labels

This table identifies current, and proposed changes to, the text that appears on labels, depending on whether the page being edited is the original or draft:

Note: the labels are only changed when buttons are presented for a draft page.

Preventing Vandalism + Clarifying labels

To explore how each issue (vandalism and clarity) is impacted by one, or more, proposals, requires an examination of the following:

• Type of page: original or draft (as above)
• Type of user: author or moderator
• Type of site: default or protected from vandalism

Pm's proposal for a recipe for protecting vandalism viewed in various contexts

Pm's proposal for a recipe for protecting vandalism, modified to clarify labels for $EnableDrafts

Note:

• Both (1) authors on unprotected sites (trusted authors) and (2) moderators, on protected sites, are treated the same and the labels for each are conformed
  • Original pages: no change from current labels for trusted authors or moderators
  • Draft pages: both labels are changed; but no change between trusted authors and moderators
• Authors on protected sites untrusted authors
  • Save: buttons hidden on both original and draft pages
  • Save As Draft: labels changed to Save on both original and draft pages

So, the bottom line would be that the current labels would change when editing draft pages and, for protected sites (untrusted) authors would have the button currently labeled Save hidden (on all pages), and the button currently labeled Save As Draft would renamed to Save (on all pages).