Hi Markus, Markus Kroetzsch schrieb: > I have read > several people expressing that "only trustworthy" or "experienced" > editors should be allowed to edit certain things. In my view, this is > fundamentally against the way in which Wikipedia is working. Protections > in Wikipedia are used in extreme cases (unresolvable disputes, repeated > vandalism, etc.) -- never as a precaution to keep out "untrusted" > editors from a large number of pages.
This is not really correct -- it always depends on the critical value of who is considered auch a "trustworty" / "experienced" user. In my personal view, there should be two different thresholds: The first (high) one for users who can actively lock statements (keep in mind: single statements, not iteams as a whole) and the second one regarding users who are affected by this lock. The second one should be rather low; I'm thinking of the border like semi-protection in Wikipedia (which is, I believe, IPs and users who registered less than four days ago). So everyone who starts to become active on Wikidata reaches the second threshold easily and quickly and will therefore be able to edit also those "locked" statements. Such proactive limitations are widely used in various Wikimedia projects, thinking of flagged revisions and the possibility of uploading files for example. It wouldn't contradict the wiki principle. Yellowcard
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