Talk:Countervandalism development

Overlap with Admin tools development
There seems to be a lot of overlap with this page and Admin tools development. Is it possible the two efforts could be consolidated? Legoktm (talk) 09:39, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Possibly, although it looked like the focus of that page was more on WMF-like environments where there's a shared backend for a wiki farm, while this is more focused on tools for third party wikis. I do want to avoid reinventing the wheel wherever possible; it's always demoralizing to find out that, due to insufficient research, one's project unnecessarily duplicated someone else's. Leucosticte (talk) 09:45, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

PanicButton
MediaWiki core already provides this functionality which is however presumably rarely used/configured. The "siteadmin" permission allows to lock and unlock the wiki's database for write actions. This functionality may probably be enhanced to provide an interface like the one protecting pages and to allow selectable time spans. Easier access to this could perhaps be added via the AdminLinks extension. --&#91;&#91;kgh&#93;&#93; (talk) 15:54, 18 March 2014 (UTC)