[WikiEN-l] Dealing with juvenile vandalism

[Erik Moeller]

On 3/8/07, Aude <audevivere at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been exceptionally busy today dealing with juvenile vandalism, in
> between working on writing articles, and may have issued more blocks today
> than any other single day.  The childish behavior is sure getting annoying.
>
> Months back, I remember reading something on this mailing list about some
> stable version system or something that provides a delay before anon. edits
> go live.  Does anyone know if that is going to happen (ever?) or what's
> going on with that?  I don't expect anything anytime soon.

Work is ongoing (we've addressed this as a high priority issue on the
Board level for some time now); however, I will only give a first
report once I'm confident it will lead somewhere - not a good thing to
announce potential vapourware.

In the meantime, I think people should apply semi-protection more
liberally. Our first goal is to write an encyclopedia, and that can be
often done perfectly well with the existing community. I find it
absurd that the featured article is still not routinely
semi-protected. Yes, everyone can edit Wikipedia. Everyone _knows_
that by now. Many people are starting to think it's a bug, not a
feature.
-- 
Peace & Love,
Erik

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