On 6/24/06, Kat Walsh <mindspillage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I do like semi-protection as a defense against the
hordes of drive-by
vandals who come by in bursts for some reason or another. But I think
we should keep it to a minimum, and be careful not to use protection
-- full or semi -- where it has not been shown to be needed.
Probably better tools (preferably trigger-based, rather than
poll-based) to automatically and accurately detect vandalism would be
good. Then allowing open access to articles would not be such a
burden, as only a few edits would have to be checked by hand.
Steve