[WikiEN-l] Putting some perspective on the end of Wikipedia

[Tony Sidaway]

About two-thirds of the 30 semiprotected talk pages (and in some case
the associated articles) have been unprotected.  One of the articles
was reprotected after immediate spamming (to be fair, it *is* called
"poop", so I was obviously very naive there!)  The others are still
unprotected.

I've made slow, steady progress on the semiprotection reviews.  You
can see the results on my talk page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Tony_Sidaway#Review_of_semiprotected_articles


At the moment I'm dealing with the older indefinite
semiprotections--those that have survived for two years--so quite a
high proportion turn out to be obvious vandalism magnets or
biographies of living persons that have encountered severe enough
problems to become semiprotected.

Of the remainder, about 18 out of 100 articles looked due for review
so I put a note on each talk page and contacted the protecting admins.
 Of those 17 reviews, I withdrew one on further information, one has
been declined by the sysop, three quickly reached consensus to keep
protection,  and four have been unprotected.  leaving ten articles
still under review.

This is very slow work but I think we should probably do it from time
to time, as part of the principle of keeping Wikipedia an open
encyclopedia.

On 9/6/09, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/6 Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com>:
>> On 9/5/09, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a machine readable version of the protection log anywhere?
>>>
>>
>> You could probably use the MediaWiki API to do this:
>>
>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
>>
>> Alternatively find some of the following regular reports easy to parse:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports
>
> I've just found that there is a database dump of all the logs. It is
> nearly a gig for enwiki, but I can manage that. I'm downloading it now
> and will try and get some useful stats out of it.
>
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