Erik Moeller wrote: <snip>
I can see three immediate ways to address the issue, by increasing complexity:
- limit protections by policy
- add an automated or template-based visible marker to protections in
the article namespace
- add an "expiry" feature for page protection similar to blocks
1 and 3 both sound like good ideas. Policy should state that protection should only be used in cases of heavy vandalism or fruitless revert wars, and should have a time limit (the maximum being 1 week).
(At this point, Tim or Brion says "so write the code for it". I'd really like to, but I'm a bit busy at the moment.)