On 11/15/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
A no frills implementation of this would only take about a half hour from idea to tested completion, and wouldn't burden the mediawiki code base with more code which we do not yet have solid evidence of needing.
I just found this on toolserver: http://tools.wikimedia.de/Protect/protect
The statistics for de: in particular, sorted by protection times, are interesting: http://tools.wikimedia.de/Protect/protect?lang=de&project=wiki&sortb...
There are still many articles that have been semi-protected since January. For some of these, that may be a good idea, but I also see quite a few where continued semi-protection seems unnecessary and continued protection mostly an oversight. Again, de: does not label protected pages as such, so they can be easily overlooked. So while it might make sense for them to start doing so, the evidence seems strong enough that auto-expiry alone would be a useful tool for de: sysops at least. I'm sure the situation is similar in other languages (logic can be as valuable as data ;-).
If you want to write and maintain a bot, that would be a great first step.