On Friday 04 September 2009, Gwern Branwen wrote:

Would it be possible for you to do a comparison with Wikipedia just before semiprotection was enabled? I've long wanted to know whether the argument that semiprotections would replace full protections holds any water.

This would also seem to be quite important to know for flagged, inasmuch as that argument has been recycled for flagging pages...

I'm not a DB/server-tools whiz, so I just did my analysis from a wiki page to get a gloss and hopefully prompt someone who knows what they are doing to correct and extend it. My analysis was prompted because of all the discussion of flagging and I very much second your question and hope someone will step forth.

I'm also cc:ing wiki-research and will refer to my brief analysis [1] in the hopes that a DB/quant person would be interested in the question.

[1]:http://reagle.org/joseph/blog/social/wikipedia/protection-figures