On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
We currently have editable pages on Wikimedia sites
with important legal
strings, and AFAIK no one has caused a noteworthy incident by editing or
vandalizing them.
There are several cases that I'm aware of where legally-significant text
was edited in legally-meaningful ways for varying lengths of time, ranging
from hours to (in some cases) months. Without going into details, for
example, one edit made us non-compliant with California law in a way that
had opened up other large websites to large fines. Thankfully none of them
have been used against us, that I know of, so perhaps locking them down
would be a case of premature optimization.
Luis
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