The idea is that full protection can be slowly deprecated and any page at all can be open to improvement by anyone.
Okay, but what about edit wars, and other cases of "Well, it isn't *really* vandalism, but people are distracting themselves from being constructive here."? I envision a future where semi and full protection is more anti-edit war, forcing people to use the talk page, and flagged protection is more anti-vandalism.
Emily On Aug 27, 2009, at 9:36 AM, David Gerard wrote:
2009/8/27 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk:
"Full-flagged protection" allows anyone to edit, but only admins (*not* "reviewers") to approve; I would assume conventional complete-lock will remain for stuff we don't *want* edited, such as the main page.
Jimbo has said he'd love to have flagged revisions applied to the main page specifically so it can be edited by anyone. The idea is that full protection can be slowly deprecated and any page at all can be open to improvement by anyone.
- d.
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