[WikiEN-l] Protecting "Today's Featured Article"

Tue Apr 12 19:23:35 UTC 2005

I think we should try and make an effort to draw the attention of a
number of serious contributors to a current FA. The more we get to
watch it, the better the chance vandalism is quickly reverted.

I thought FA's were well looked after, but since it turns out to be
not so much the case as I thougth, I'll certainly be looking at them
closer from now on.

--Mgm

On Apr 12, 2005 8:41 PM, Stan Shebs <shebs at apple.com> wrote:
> Seth Ilys wrote:
> 
> >On Apr 12, 2005 11:32 AM, David 'DJ' Hedley <spyders at btinternet.com> wrote:
> >
> >>No-one seemed to care...
> >>
> >
> >Not quite true.
> >
> >You cared.
> >
> >And one person is all it takes. That's why we have succeeded thus far;
> >because it's easier to revert vandalism than to cause it.
> >
> This strategy breaks down when the number of vandals is
> considerably larger than the number of serious editors.
> A couple times I've caught front page vandalism and noticed
> that the vandalism had been up for several hours already.
> Likewise, I must be the only person watching some articles,
> because there's been a number of cases where the vandalism
> got by me when it happened, and I only noticed the *second*
> watchlist appearance when it was fixed by a kind anon, after
> several days of being in a trashed state. How many other
> articles have been trashed without any regular editor
> noticing?
> 
> I don't have any great strategies of my own, but I don't
> think we should just assume that everything is fine, and that
> we don't need to be thinking about new ways to keep the
> "free encyclopedia" part working without needing tireless
> vigilance by tired editors, because of the "wiki" part.
> 
> Stan
> 
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