View Source could be moved to a permenant tab for all pages if this type of change were going to go through. xaosflux ----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony DiPierro" wikilegal@inbox.org To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 3:39 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Proposal: limited extension of semi-protection policy
On 5/21/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
maru dubshinki wrote:
I have to disagree with you here. Wikipedia is famous as the Encyclopedia "anyone can edit". If a random anon sees a page and tries to edit it, and cannot (while the main page still proclaims how everyone can edit), they are going to be dreadfully confused- lord knows enough are confused by the basic idea without adding on a second level of possible confusion. Perhaps two templates: the scary one for temporary semiprotection, and another, more discreet one for the more permanent ones?
I would support something like that, or better yet, perhaps having the default for semi-protection be that the 'edit this page' tab is still there and active, but when you click it and you can't edit, you get a nice explanation there that yes, anyone can edit, but that for this particular page, you can't edit it at this moment. In this way, we only bother telling people who are interested in editing, without having a strange message for people who only want to read.
The only thing I'd be concerned about is making sure that this is implemented in a way which still allows for easy access to the wiki source (without going through Special:Export). Just an implementation issue, but IMO an important one.
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