On Thursday 18 October 2001 21:20, you wrote:
I generally think this is a good idea. I'm not sure exactly how the system should work, but I propose something like adding 1 Karma Point (KP) for signing up with a username, and one more for every day you connect to the wikipedia after that (with the same username), and 2 KP for each day in which you've edited an existing article, and 3 Karma points for each day you add a new article.
Once you get up to 60 KP, you have basic privileges (Editing the home page and the like).
Once you have or so 100 KP you can block an IP address, user ID#, or user alias temporarily (24 hours).
Once you have 200+ KP you can mark an article for deletion. The article is not deleted for 24 hours, and is clearly displayed as MARKED FOR DELETION on the recent changes log if you have at least 150 KP. Anybody with level 1 privileges can then check a "don't delete this" box on the article, and it will be unmarked for deletion.
It seems more complicated than what JW had in mind, and we can haggle about the exact nr of points, i suppose. But I like the idea of gradually gaining more abilities (lets call it that rather than priviliges)
I would recommend that the edit this page link just not appear unless you have privileges to edit that page.
If you want to follow Michel Clasquin's suggestion that we also lock down the pages linked from the main page, I'd recommend that those pages be locked only for those with 4 or less KP, which means if you're logged in, and you created an article you can add a link to it from the appropriate portal page, since you have 1 KP for signing up, and 3 for adding an article.
Or signed up and done 2 edits
Interesting idea. I've rethought the situation and we may need to differentiate here between the English and non-english wikipedias. The portal pages in the non-english wp's are often underdeveloped and may need less strict rules (for now) like you suggest here. But in the English wp most of the portals are well-developed and could use a higher level of protection IMHO.
I would actually recommend that there be a field in the data base which assigns the level of restriction on a page, so an administrator (or potentially anybody with a high enough KP) adjust the threshold for that page. This would be useful if the there were repeated problems with a specific portal page.
Excellent idea Of course, I shouldn't be able to raise it to some ridiculous amount to make it uneditable by anyone (even myself). Perhaps up to my KP - 1?
One more thing: I would very much like my KP to be between me and the software, not publically available. We don't need people to start doing millions of minor edits and putting up a KP counter on their homepages! Rather start getting new abilities automagically and almost without noticing it. In fact, really without noticing it in a lot of cases, I'm sure.