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Fred Bauder wrote:
When thinking about this idea, don't assume what form it would take. Bottom line, if it takes a few days to gain enough power to do serious vandalism, engaging in serious vandalism would not be fun, but a stone drag since all the rigamarole (which for a first time user could possibly take the form of learning about the wiki) will have to be gone through again. Faster then the first time, but still time consuming.
Aha, a mentoring approach! The wiki purists will have your head! :)
Actually, this isn't a bad idea. We just need to enable per-namespace blocking. All users start out blocked from everything but Talk:, User:, User_talk:, and Wikipedia:. IPs would be permanantly restricted to (main):, Talk:, and User_talk:. It would also make enforcing arbcom rulings like "this user is banned from editing in the Wikipedia namespace for six months" trivial to enforce and impossible to break.
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