On 19/12/06, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
This does make TFA temporarily not-editable, which people have objected to, but I don't know that doing so is necessarily a bad thing given the ongoing highly visible vandalism problem. How many tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of visitors have gotten penis pictures so far? 8-(
The real problem is that the featured article often gets a great deal of improvement while it's featured. This does require people to be watching it pretty much continuously for vandalism. It would be much better for the wiki to arrange patrollers rather than make readers' first experience of Wikipedia be an article they can't in fact edit, and I would say it is a worse thing than seeing a picture of a penis.
The only technical solution to vandals is to lock the wiki. That's a really bad thing. Do we really not have patrollers?
- d.