[WikiEN-l] threats and abuse from IP user

Fri Aug 22 20:53:34 UTC 2003

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, J. Noel Chiappa wrote:
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> First, some pages (e.g. Israel) will probably just have to permanently be
> protected. Well, maybe you need some sort of intermediate level of
> protection; e.g. only editable by someone who a) has an account, b) has
> it for a month, and c) has made a threshold level of accepted edits. But
> allowing anyone, even someone who's not logged in, to edit them is just
> going to turn into a constant edit war.

What's your opinion on some of the suggestions at
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_pages_considered_harmful ?

ie, a system whereby anyone can edit protected pages all they like, but
changes to the generally presented 'current' version are deferred until
the page is left to sit for a time. No limitation on _who's_ doing the
editing.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)