On 3/8/07, Aude audevivere@gmail.com wrote:
I've been exceptionally busy today dealing with juvenile vandalism, in between working on writing articles, and may have issued more blocks today than any other single day. The childish behavior is sure getting annoying.
Months back, I remember reading something on this mailing list about some stable version system or something that provides a delay before anon. edits go live. Does anyone know if that is going to happen (ever?) or what's going on with that? I don't expect anything anytime soon.
Work is ongoing (we've addressed this as a high priority issue on the Board level for some time now); however, I will only give a first report once I'm confident it will lead somewhere - not a good thing to announce potential vapourware.
In the meantime, I think people should apply semi-protection more liberally. Our first goal is to write an encyclopedia, and that can be often done perfectly well with the existing community. I find it absurd that the featured article is still not routinely semi-protected. Yes, everyone can edit Wikipedia. Everyone _knows_ that by now. Many people are starting to think it's a bug, not a feature.