[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia, the encylopedia that anyone can't edit

[David Gerard]

On 27/03/07, bobolozo <bobolozo at yahoo.com> wrote:

> We now have about 1500 articles in
> Category:Semi-protected, which new editors and IP
> addresses can't edit.  I picked a few at random, and
> most I checked were entirely uncontroversial articles
> which had briefly had some trouble from an IP address,
> which was over months ago and there was no reason to
> believe it would ever occur again.
> This is in violation of one of our basic principles.
> Would it not make more sense for admins to be expected
> to automatically make this sort of semi-protection
> have a time limit, assuming there was no reason to
> believe the article was a permanent vandal magnet?


Yep. Could do with it defaulting to e.g. a week instead of defaulting
to indefinite.


- d.