[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia page protection report

[Timwi]

Erik Moeller wrote:
> 
> This confirms my intuition that long term page protection is used 
> excessively on the German Wikipedia. [...] One immediate effect,
> besides stagnation, is that sysops become far more relevant in the
> power structure, as they are the only ones who can add information to
> articles after protection. Instead of being janitors, they become
> editors. This, I believe, must have social repercussions beyond the
> articles concerned.

Given these concerns, which certainly could be taken as a criticism of 
the German Wikipedia's methodology, I'm surprised you didn't post this 
to wikide-l.