The problem with delete is that they might delete the whole Main space, that includes Search, etc. Some users also try to rename the homepage, which implies a Delete, which usually breaks stuff. For normal applications I would still not allow delete, since the Home should contain livetables, dashboards, indexes with the children, into pages, etc. Thanks, Caty On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 4:46 PM, Thomas Mortagne <thomas.mortagne(a)xwiki.com> wrote: > Hi xwikiers, > > In 10.3 I introduced a "home" type with Main.WebHome in mind with the > following defaults: > * edit allow > * delete forbidden > * no upgrade if modified > > I tough that deleting the wiki home page was not so great. > > Eduard argue that since the wiki home page is configurable there is no > reason to restrict delete right. > > WDYT ? > > I feel that most people don't change the configured home page so I'm > +1 to keep it like this but I'm not strongly against allowing delete > if others think it's fine since I don't have much experience with > configured home page use case. > > -- > Thomas Mortagne >

Hi Thomas and all, I was also a bit surprised to see a special “home” page type. If the only difference between “demo” and “home” is the ability or not to delete it, then indeed I’m not sure we need the “home” type. For me the only pages that would need to be prevented from being deleted are pages that, if deleted, will make the wiki bug (ie the wiki cannot work without them), and, AFAIK we should never have pages that do this (when those pages don’t exist, they should be automatically recreated when needed). Since we support the feature of being able to configure/change the default wiki home page, we should allow deleting Main.WebHome as a user will be able to change his wiki home page. Now if we want to incitate users to not delete “home” pages, we could protect them by default (i.e. have some right on them so that only admins can delete them by default). I think that would be enough for me. All that said, and as Caty mentioned, when we delete a page, the children can be selected too, and a rename will perform a delete. And we might want to prevent this from happening for Main.WebHome. Most users won’t like the name “Main” and will want to try renaming it or deleting it so that they can have their own namespace. IMO the best answer to that is: * Finishing removing default pages located in the Main space and move them elsewhere so that users can rename or delete the Main space without it being a problem at all * Allow configuring the page not found template when on Main.WebHome so that if the page is deleted, the admin/user can see a message with a link, explaining how to change the wiki home page. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent