On 6/24/06, Kat Walsh mindspillage@gmail.com wrote:
I do like semi-protection as a defense against the hordes of drive-by vandals who come by in bursts for some reason or another. But I think we should keep it to a minimum, and be careful not to use protection -- full or semi -- where it has not been shown to be needed.
Probably better tools (preferably trigger-based, rather than poll-based) to automatically and accurately detect vandalism would be good. Then allowing open access to articles would not be such a burden, as only a few edits would have to be checked by hand.
Steve