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

[Jimmy Wales]

I would tend to agree.  The "stable versions" feature should make a lot 
of this unnecessary.  But now that we have the ability to make 
semi-protection time limited, this should likely be the default attempt.

bobolozo 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?
> 
> An ever growing list of permanently semi-protected
> articles is not what we want, especially given that
> it's happening out of sheer laziness.
> 
> 
> 
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