On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Tony Sidaway<[email protected]> wrote: > I'm undertaking to have all article and talk page semiprotections on > Wikipedia reviewed. The process I'm using is to enter a brief > proposal on the article talk page and contact the protecting sysop. > The idea is that we discuss whether to unprotect the article or talk > page and watch it vigilantly. > > This has already met considerable success, with more 30% of the > proposals I've made this evening being enacted upon. There appear to > be a lot of semiprotections that have simply been forgotten by the > original sysop. > > I'll keep this up until I either run out of articles to review or get > bored. Since there are several thousand semiprotected article the > latter is more likely to happen first. > > Gwern Branwen wonders whether semiprotections have taken over from > protections. Well one cannot really compare the current Wikipedia > with the Wikipedia of 2005. Then we had no real way of dealing with > biographies of living persons, and little awareness of the problem, > and as for the protected articles, they numbered dozens at the most, > and certainly not thousands. It's important to strike a balance. > While many of the semiprotected pages may actually be redirects that > we wouldn't normally want to see edited by unregistered users, I > suspect many are not. It's always a good idea to review the situation > regularly.
Excellent idea. Some problem areas just are and will remain so, but a lot of problems were one particular set of editors beating on each other and not a general social or topic issue. Those go away over time. Thanks for the effort in doing that, Tony. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
