Passed on to WP:AN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Protection_template_issue
FT2 On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:36 PM, FT2 <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, found out why. > > You need to account for [[Category:Wikipedia pages protected due to > dispute]] and other protection categories, as well. Pages such as "Russell's > teapot" and "Developed country" are in there, protected, but not tagged. > > The root cause seems to be that the category isn't itself a subcategory of > some "protected pages" category. Specifically, there are protection > templates <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Protection_templates> > such as "Pp-dispute" that don't also include the page in one of the main > "protected pages" categories you name. > > FT2 > > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:29 PM, FT2 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry, no. >> >> A quick look at the protection log shows many more protections of articles >> as well as other pages; listing in the protected pages categories almost >> seems an exception when these are clicked on. >> >> As well a wide range of pages are "salted" - deleted then protected to >> prevent recreation. Those don't appear in categories either. >> >> It looks like you'd need to do a check on actual status of mainspace pages >> via the toolserver to get accurate statistics. >> >> FT2 >> >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Joseph Reagle <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> One of the best responses to some of the hyperbole out there about the >>> closing, failure, end of WP is the figure of how many articles are actually >>> locked down in any way, however, this is a difficult figure to >>> authoritatively find/claim. There's Main and Featured [1] of course, about >>> 11 protected articles [2], and then 785 semi-protected [3]. >>> >>> So are those the right numbers? If so can we claim about .0026% of pages >>> are protected from editing by "anyone" and .00004% of pages are protected >>> from Wikipedians (i.e., you've signed up for an account and haven't done >>> anything stupid for a few days.) >>> >>> How many pages (BPL + ?) are likely to fall under Flagged Protection? >>> >>> [1]: >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_indefinitely_protected_pages >>> [2]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_protected_pages >>> [3]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_semi-protected_pages >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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
