2009/9/5 Gwern Branwen <gwern0(a)gmail.com>om>:
Would it be possible for you to do a comparison with
Wikipedia just
before semiprotection was enabled? I've long wanted to know whether
the argument that semiprotections would replace full protections holds
any water.
Such a comparison should be possible. We have protection logs, we
should be able to go through them and work out how many articles were
(semi-)protected at any given time. A graph of that data would reveal
any obvious impact of the introduction of semi protection (work out a
trend from the data before the introduction and see if the data after
it fits it or not).
Is there a machine readable version of the protection log anywhere?