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.
Anthony
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