on 2/6/05 7:16 PM, JAY JG at jayjg@hotmail.com wrote:
Stormfront as 43,000 members? That's rather disturbing. However, to be a threat, a sizable number of them would have to be coherent or articulate, else they'll be shot down as garden-variety vandalism. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if we've blocked stormfront members before, for making racist edits.
Wikipedia would not be able to handle 43 Vogels. Even 10 would tax its current resources and structure. If 1 in 4000 is intelligent, coherent, and motivated, Wikipedia is in trouble.
Jay.
Perhaps we need some sort of intermediate form of ongoing protection for certain pages. Perhaps some pages should only have registered editors able to actively edit them with non-editors only able to make suggestions on talk pages? Perhaps other pages should be protected on an ongoing basis and only have admins able to edit them based on proposals on talk pages which have achieved consensus or passed a certain standard?
Andy