[WikiEN-l] Neo-nazis to attack wikipedia

Mon Feb 7 12:54:45 UTC 2005

Deathphoenix said:
> You'd probably need to have a small team of volunteers willing to act
> as  moderators for each article (of course, people would be moderating
> much  more than a single "protected article"). The current
> {{protected}}  system is good for protecting the article so that only
> admins can edit  it, so if the moderators were admins, that would work.

Create content moderators and you create a point of weakness.  The best
safeguard of content is verifiability.  The existing dispute resolution
process can deal with people who repeatedly make unverifiable edits.