[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikipedia page protection report

[Pawe³ Dembowski]

> On De, however, I perceive a much more homogenous distribution of
> opinions among the sysops. Since it was a sysop who made the edit, and
> since sysops are trusted users, the edit was probably trustworthy. Since
> there are often no other sysops disputing/opposing the edit, it doesn't
> matter that the edit was of a much greater significance/magnitude than
> some edits that spark violent edit wars. This (among many many other
> things) encourages existing sysops to make sure the community of sysops
> remains broadly like-minded, and this in turn encourages the view that
> dissenting non-sysop editors are just vandals, and encourages the sysops
> to keep the page protected. Hence, as Erik said, "sysops become far more
> relevant in the power structure" and "instead of being janitors, they
> become editors".
> Timwi

The same can be said of Polish Wikipedia, although here we do not
protect as many pages as at de:.

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