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

Tue Apr 12 19:46:57 UTC 2005

Stan Shebs 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.

The problem there may be because many serious editors bypass the front 
page when they log on.

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