[WikiEN-l] What's wrong with the world?

[steve v]

Simply freezing content seems rather unwiki, but here
"lock" is just a misnomer for "extended protection,"
allowing sysops only to edit them. The idea is that WP
has gotten too big and fast to monitor all vandalism
quickly, and dormant/stagnant pages present an easy
target. 

As long as there are certain degrees between
'completely open' and 'completely closed,' and a means
(other than just talk pages) for non-admins to request
changes on "locked" pages, it should be fine. 

And yes, a disfork linking a pop-band like "Green Day"
from a general article like "minority" IS a problem. 

SV

--- Zachary Harden <zscout370 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> There's nothing wrong in my opinon with this.
> However, I am worried about 
> Jimbo's announcement about locking some articles.
> See 
>
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/computing/20050805-1259-media-wikipedia.html
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Zachary Harden
> 
> 
> >From: steve v <vertigosteve at yahoo.com>
> >Reply-To: English Wikipedia
> <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> >To: wikien-l at wikimedia.org
> >Subject: [WikiEN-l] What's wrong with the world?
> >Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 12:49:06 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> > >From [[ minority ]]:
> >
> >''This article is about the concept of a minority.
> For
> >an entry on the [[Green Day]] single, see
> [[Minority
> >(song)|Minority]].''
> 
> 
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