I understand entirely emergency measures; we should
just try to explain people what is going on a minimum
though. Those not on en: just can't guess.
Perhaps temporary measures should be accompanied by temporary warnings - a message, built
into the
software if necessary, that gives a reassurance that this is an emergency measure.
Certainly
something that needs considering whenever such a feature is implemented. [Not that I know
what
message *did* get displayed, but clearly it wasn't adequately informative, else this
conversation
wouldn't be happening.]
> has now been changed
> to allow all but the most recently registered users
> to move pages.
Out of interest, is this being done by time, or by edits - can a user simply not access it
for the
first half hour / half day / whatever, or do they need to earn "experience"?
Mind you, now I think
about it I'm not sure there's much to choose between the two - neither the ability
of a bot to get
round it, nor the slight feeling of inequality created really varies. I'm guessing
it's time-based,
though, cos I can imagine how that might easily be codable.
--
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]