[WikiEN-l] page protection policy (aside:Web of Trust )

[S. Vertigo]

Ive got to go in a minute, so I cant deal with the
David and Pir's comments right away.

But on a sidenote, occurrs to me that we could use a
separate branch of the current category scheme (the
cat namespace should be for articles only) to indicate
trust levels for users. 

Each user has a trust categrory which contains linktos
from each userpage where their name is added, as a
kind of thumb up or down regarding their effectiveness
as a moderator, editor, etc. Im sure this has already
been thought of, mentioned, debated, and scuttled, but
that seems to be an idea.

-S

--- David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Pierre Hentges wrote:
> 
> >SV is right that the current policy on page
> protection 
> >isn't great. Pages are often protected for a long
> time 
> >without any progress on the actual conflict. For
> example 
> >[[anti-American sentiment]] has been protected for
> nearly 
> >two weeks without VV and GBWR making the slightest
> effort 
> >to resolve their dispute, despite me trying to
> help. It's 
> >very frustrating for everybody else. The current
> policy 
> >just isn't conducive to conlict resolution.
> 
> 
> Con for your otherwise good proposal:
> 
> * More bureaucracy. See [[m:instruction creep]] -
> the people causing
> the problem won't read the instructions either, or
> we wouldn't have
> had the problem in the first place.
> 
> One thing I've been wishing for lately is some way
> for third parties
> to drag edit warriors to mediation. The recent
> combatants at [[Jew]]
> and [[Anti-Semitism]] have mostly agreed to
> mediation (though they're
> still extremely pissed off at each other), which is
> a big win. But it
> took a *lot* of dragging. And we appear to have a
> shortage of
> mediators ... (This is me not volunteering!)
> 
> 
> - d.
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