[Wikipedia-l] Semi-protection

Mon Nov 13 02:00:08 UTC 2006

Auto-expiring protection sounds like a very interesting idea -- has anybody
submitted this to  Bugzilla?

On 11/12/06, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> On 11/13/06, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I believe it's been brought up to use an edit-approval program where new
> > accounts would have to get their edits approved if they're new -- this
> would
> > be in place of semiprotection.
>
> I oppose this. It undermines the assumption of good faith, whereas S-P
> is specifically used on pages that have a record of vandalism.
>
> It makes more sense to expand the protection model to allow for
> auto-expiry (as well as automatic labeling of protected pages).
> --
> Peace & Love,
> Erik
>
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