Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment--20150814190019/@comment-11842624-20150815092016

Hiddenlich wrote: What about opening up Special:Allmessages to administrators?

Wikia probablу cant do that so easy. They allow import any MW for a long time. Now to ensure full security they need to check the specific MW page for all projects and to ensure the impossibility of recording scripts and import them using verbatim before unlocking the page. For example css import at right moment: http://ru.test.wikia.com/wiki/(Verbatim)_тест_импорта_стандартных_MediaWiki_страниц?oldid=9714 / http://ru.test.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikia.css?oldid=9713 verbatim gives an empty string, because apparently accesses a file, pre-processed by the server according to the rules of CSS (i.e. all incorrect for CSS syntax deleted) and not the source code of the page.
 * using translate
 * probably this leads to delay unlocking of pages: if the security team took up the mind they are now looking for all possible places of leakage of your data using the built-in scripts. however, this is only a suggestion based on personal experience.

"No more in media wiki messages" /truly deep freeze due to unresolved security issue that no one asked to decide in this way..