Today's "Now I Know" by Dan Lewis discusses copyright and involves several links to Wikipedia.
http://dlewis.net/nik-archives/no-copying-grandma/
Sent from my Droid2 Elias Friedman A.S., CCEMT-P אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי elipongo@gmail.com On Jan 18, 2012 5:58 AM, "Carcharoth" carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Jeraphine Gryphon jeraphine@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia should do these complete edit locks more often, TBH. For the sake of Wikipediholics like me, and so admins can catch up with reports and backlogs in peace.
Point of order. This is not an edit-lock. You are thinking from the perspective of an editor. This is a reader lock-out as well (though really, those that know enough to use mirrors or caches or disable javascript are not missing out on reading articles, and that may get mis-reported in the press as those in the know not being inconvenienced but everyone else being locked out from reading Wikipedia).
Not sure if it's a serious suggestion but it's just a thought I had.
It's a nice idea, but there are several problems with that. Firstly, how to handle urgent edits that still need to be made. Secondly, how to restrict editing disablement to just article namespace (which is what would be needed to allow other stuff to carry on as normal). I don't think it would ever really happen.
Carcharoth
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