On 19/12/06, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This does make TFA temporarily not-editable, which
people have
objected to, but I don't know that doing so is necessarily a bad thing
given the ongoing highly visible vandalism problem. How many tens of
thousands or hundreds of thousands of visitors have gotten penis
pictures so far? 8-(
The real problem is that the featured article often gets a great deal
of improvement while it's featured. This does require people to be
watching it pretty much continuously for vandalism. It would be much
better for the wiki to arrange patrollers rather than make readers'
first experience of Wikipedia be an article they can't in fact edit,
and I would say it is a worse thing than seeing a picture of a penis.
The only technical solution to vandals is to lock the wiki. That's a
really bad thing. Do we really not have patrollers?
- d.