[Wikipedia-l] Semi-protection

Tue Nov 14 11:42:18 UTC 2006

Is that a general trends in all languages wikipedias ? Or only english 
wikipedia ?

Are other projects using semi-protection liberally as well ?

anthere

theProject 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?
> 