This idea arose in the context of a discussion which
generally addressed
civility. The warnings would be civility warnings.
To that end, a warnings tool would be helpful,
supplementing or replacing the uw- templates with a MediaWiki
extension that requires that warnings be acknowledged by the editor to
continue editing, and providing a record of warnings. This is
basically a very soft block that the editor is free to remove
themselves. Warnings need not be generally visible except in the case
where a matter progresses to arbitration, but they should persist for
a period of time so that patterns of behavior become apparent.
-Stephanie
Brilliant!
Requests for new features should be filed in Bugzilla:
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org>. This ensures that the ideas don't get lost
in mailing list archives and it ensures that eventually these bugs get
looked at and (hopefully) implemented by willing developers.
This particular feature request is no small task, but I think the idea
definitely has merit.
MZMcBride