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.
What basic principle is that? I thought Wikipedia's basic principles were a) to be free (as in freedom), and b) to be an encyclopedia. Everything else is a means to that end, not a "basic principle."
Anyone _can_ edit any Wikipedia article, because anyone can create an account. And the account name can be pseudonymous.
And, anyone _can_ edit any WIkipedia article, because they are all licensed under the GFDL. What they cannot do is:
Edit a Wikipedia article --without creating an account --and host that edited version --on the Wikipedia website --in the main namespace.