We have an alternative betwen a simple procvess that everyone understands and which is most unlikely to go wrong, and a much more complicated one that most Wikipedians do not understand and which is much more likely to be confusing. to try the complicated one first is playing technical games with the encyclopedia.
The example given is simple vandalism, not harmful libel, and what surprises me about it is that the p. was not very quickly protected to deal with it. On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Wilhelm Schnotz <[email protected]> wrote: > If you want flagged reca the instructions for starting the process are > at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-June/043691.html > > On 12/31/08, Maxim <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think a better question at this point would be is how, from a technical >> standpoint, implementing flagged revs or semi-protection on only biographies >> will technically feasible. As for the >> >> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Charlotte Webb >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I'm still trying to figure out why semi-protection is more widely >>> supported than flaggedrevs, especially after seeing the example given >>> here: >>> >>> http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=22088 [warning: badsite] >>> >>> What would be a reasonable timetable for closing this discussion... >>> >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Protecting_BLP_articles_feeler_survey >>> >>> ...with the acknowledgment that there is at least majority support for >>> flaggedrevs on BLP articles, and turn the bloody thing on already >>> (preferably without any technical or social restrictions against using >>> it on other pages as needed, and on all pages eventually). >>> >>> It's a few hours till 2009 here, and I'm about to go get shit-faced >>> drunk. If anyone is reading this I'd like nothing better than to come >>> back tomorrow <s>morning</s> afternoon and see that actual progress >>> has been made. >>> >>> For this new year it's time to try something different. Please. >>> >>> —C.W. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WikiEN-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ~Maxim >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
