Is that a general trends in all languages wikipedias ? Or only english wikipedia ?
Are other projects using semi-protection liberally as well ?
anthere
theProject wrote:
I'm starting to become a bit concerned at the rate at which we're applying semi-protection to our articles. This morning I decided to punch in a whole bunch of country names into WP to see what would show up. As you can see, we're starting to see that padlock icon more and more frequently these days.
Australia -- not protected Brazil -- not protected Canada -- sprotected China -- sprotected
- People's Republic of China -- not protected
- Republic of China -- sprotected
France -- sprotected Germany -- sprotected Italy -- sprotected Japan -- sprotected Korea -- not protected
- North Korea -- sprotected (to be fair, this was unprotected, then
re-protected by me)
- South Korea -- sprotected
Mexico -- sprotected Russia -- not protected Spain -- sprotected United Kingdom -- not protected United States -- sprotected
Now, this isn't completely unacceptable, but I think we can do a little better. What are the implications of holding back a bit more on the use of semi-protection (other than the obvious)? Could we do a bit more vandal-fighting work to make our encyclopaedia more open?