2008/6/12 Chris Howie cdhowie@gmail.com:
Article specific is fine IMO. Category specific is problematic. I'm sure plenty of sneaky vandals could add unrelated pages to such categories and in effect block those users from editing them. Putting what amounts to admin rights (even if it is over only a handful of people) in the hands of anonymous editors is not wise.
On a related subject, the fact that categories don't allow you to monitor the articles that are in them in your watchlist is incredibly broken. It seems to me if I watch a category and somebody adds or takes away from it, I should know about it.
-- Chris Howie