On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Chuck Smith wrote:
From what
I remember from Wikipedia-L, I thought we
were going to continue to allow subpages
on personal
pages and ditch them on the regular wikipedia. Are
there any plans to put them back in on personal pages?
Don't know.
That would be nice.
Also, when are you going to give back privileges
to
edit the Homepage to trusted users? I made it my
responsibility to update the new language wikipedias
when they came in and now I can't. I think an
unprotected homepage is better than a protected
homepage that only two people can edit... now that's a
cabal!
Well, there was originally a "can-edit-the-homepage" cabal :-) consisting
of about a dozen people, but they all had sysop privileges as well, which
was, er, not to "diss" any of the people in question, maybe a little
dangerous.
Were there ever any actual incidents where this was a problem? If there
were, it should be made public.
Y'know, I think a sensible thing to do would be to make all registered
users members of a "can-edit-the-homepage" cabal, which makes it no longer
a cabal. This would prevent almost all homepage vandalism.
That's a good idea.