[WikiEN-l] So, what is the deal with flagged revisions?

[Emily Monroe]

> The idea is that full protection can be slowly deprecated and any  
> page at all can be open to improvement by anyone.

Okay, but what about edit wars, and other cases of "Well, it isn't  
*really* vandalism, but people are distracting themselves from being  
constructive here."? I envision a future where semi and full  
protection is more anti-edit war, forcing people to use the talk page,  
and flagged protection is more anti-vandalism.

Emily
On Aug 27, 2009, at 9:36 AM, David Gerard wrote:

> 2009/8/27 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk>:
>
>> "Full-flagged protection" allows anyone to edit, but only admins
>> (*not* "reviewers") to approve; I would assume conventional
>> complete-lock will remain for stuff we don't *want* edited, such as
>> the main page.
>
>
> Jimbo has said he'd love to have flagged revisions applied to the main
> page specifically so it can be edited by anyone. The idea is that full
> protection can be slowly deprecated and any page at all can be open to
> improvement by anyone.
>
>
> - d.
>
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