On 9/8/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
I've seen protection for high-profile templates like this mentioned before, but never implemented; after I mentioned these attacks on WP:AN, someone protected all three. Is anyone capable of coming up with a list of all individual templates transcluded on, say, more than a couple of hundred pages? Even if we don't *protect* these (I strongly suggest we do - they mostly shouldn't be edited without a good reason, much like the MediaWiki messages), having a few dozen admins watchlisting them would be helpful.
See [[WP:HRT]] (1). I put together some stats on high volume templates when I first drafted that page (2), but they're wildly out of date by now. Hopefully when the toolserver is working properly again for en, we'll be able to update those statistics.
-- (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:High-risk_templates (2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_templates_by_usage