The most important priority of all is attracting new editors, not preventing vandalism. Vandalism we can prevent in other ways if we have editors, but the absence of new editors prevents achieving anything at all.
Consequently, the likelihood of getting community approval for all pages is very low.
The successful argument --the only argument which finally get a sufficient consensus--was that flagging was a less restrictive environment for new editors than semi-protection. The question now is whether it will be so obtrusive and awkward, that the non-editing of semi-protection makes more sense than fruitless and disappointing trying-to-edit with flagged protection. Unlike some of the other skeptics, I am not willing to predict failure at this. But that we don't even know what to call it remains an indicator that we do not know how it will be perceived.
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 2:39 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
I think the best way of rolling this out if it is possible would be to replace all semi protected articles with flagged protected or"double check" protected. If it works well we could than either add more pages or apply it to all pages.
This would make it more seamless, draw less potentially negative media attention, and allow all those who will be dealing with these edits to figure out how the system works. We do not want to end up like the baggage terminal at that new terminal in London.
-- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, B.Sc. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l