User:Bootmii/Conservapedia:Night editing

When Conservapedia is in night-edit mode, only users with the 'edit' right can make edits.

Public editing in 2008 - Log excerpt


Generally, public editing was disabled from 0:00h until 8:00h.

Public editing in 2010


When Guard Dog went mad, it was never replaced. So, Conservapedia has no automatic way to react to orchestrated vandalism. Result: in such a case, some sysop disables public editing. This seems to be done without informing his fellow sysops, and as it has no effect on all the members with edit rights - e.g., all sysops including Andy - they aren't aware that this measure was taken. And the inconvenience for the common editors isn't seen as a big deal, so to turn public editing on again has no high priority, and is sometimes forgotten...

How to detect Night Editing Mode
Night Editing Mode isn't advertised on the main page. But of course, any ordinary user will find out easily that the Night Editing Mode is activated: when they try to edit a page. Instead of the usual edit button, they see a view source button. Clicking the button, they are informed that:


 * The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Administrators, edit.

But for a member of these two groups it is not that straightforward: they see the usual edit button and get no hint that the site is slumbering in Night Editing Mode. If they suspect that this is the case - perhaps because the Recent Changes shows no sign of activity of ordinary editors - they can use the following approach:

As Conservapedia allows only registered users to edit, everyone who is logged off will see the view source button instead of theedit button. If the result is this message:
 * Log off
 * Click the view source button.


 * "The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Administrators, edit."

the site is indeed in Night Editing Mode. If it says:


 * "The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Users, Administrators, edit."

then the lack of activity on Recent Changes shows only that no one cares any longer.