Erik Moeller wrote:
This confirms my intuition that long term page protection is used
excessively on the German Wikipedia. [...] One immediate effect,
besides stagnation, is that sysops become far more relevant in the
power structure, as they are the only ones who can add information to
articles after protection. Instead of being janitors, they become
editors. This, I believe, must have social repercussions beyond the
articles concerned.
Given these concerns, which certainly could be taken as a criticism of
the German Wikipedia's methodology, I'm surprised you didn't post this
to wikide-l.