925964 - Ability to lock a page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Janet Swisher]

What problems would this solve?
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Some pages really shouldn't be edited except by admins. The most glaring example of this is https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Midas/Security_preferences which is referenced from within Firefox, because Firefox prevents scripts from triggering copy and paste operations. This page is visited by confused users who paste random content into it.

Another use case is https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/FAQs/Marketplace_payments which describes Mozilla policies with respect to the Firefox Marketplace. 

Who would use this?
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Admins would lock pages that shouldn't be edited by ordinary users. This could be done via the Django admin UI if necessary.

What would users see?
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Users would not see the Edit button on the page, even when logged in.

What would users do? What would happen as a result?
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Users would get correct information and not risk messing up that information for others.

Is there anything else we should know?
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Comment 1

[ali spivak]

I thoguht there was a bug for this when we were specifying Zone requirements?

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

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