[Wikipedia-l] Semi-protection

Mon Nov 13 02:06:43 UTC 2006

On 11/12/06, theProject <wp.theproject at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm starting to become a bit concerned at the rate at which we're applying
> semi-protection to our articles. This morning I decided to punch in a whole
> bunch of country names into WP to see what would show up. As you can see,
> we're starting to see that padlock icon more and more frequently these days.
>
>
> Australia -- not protected
> Brazil -- not protected
> Canada -- sprotected
> China -- sprotected
> - People's Republic of China -- not protected
> - Republic of China -- sprotected
> France -- sprotected
> Germany -- sprotected
> Italy -- sprotected
> Japan -- sprotected
> Korea -- not protected
> - North Korea -- sprotected (to be fair, this was unprotected, then
> re-protected by me)
> - South Korea -- sprotected
> Mexico -- sprotected
> Russia -- not protected
> Spain -- sprotected
> United Kingdom -- not protected
> United States -- sprotected
>
> Now, this isn't completely unacceptable, but I think we can do a little
> better. What are the implications of holding back a bit more on the use of
> semi-protection (other than the obvious)? Could we do a bit more
> vandal-fighting work to make our encyclopaedia more open?

semi-protection isn't much of an impediment; anyone who really cares
can get an account and wait briefly.  Can you explain a bit more as to
why you think that using it is a problem?  I think it's generally
widely seen as the smallest of many possible evils today, though I
certainly don't think that we will never be able to come up with
better mechanisms.

-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com