I am familiar with other incidents myself, and would not consider moving away from the existing system "premature optimization". I would consider it "sanity". We exist in a situation where wikis can individually customise, say, the copyright release associated with edits. Changing that is A Good Thing.
On 11 August 2015 at 12:29, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:43 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
We currently have editable pages on Wikimedia sites with important legal strings, and AFAIK no one has caused a noteworthy incident by editing or vandalizing them.
There are several cases that I'm aware of where legally-significant text was edited in legally-meaningful ways for varying lengths of time, ranging from hours to (in some cases) months. Without going into details, for example, one edit made us non-compliant with California law in a way that had opened up other large websites to large fines. Thankfully none of them have been used against us, that I know of, so perhaps locking them down would be a case of premature optimization.
Luis
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