On 11/15/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
A no frills implementation of this would only take
about a half hour
from idea to tested completion, and wouldn't burden the mediawiki code
base with more code which we do not yet have solid evidence of
needing.
I just found this on toolserver:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/Protect/protect
The statistics for de: in particular, sorted by protection times, are
interesting:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/Protect/protect?lang=de&project=wiki&sort…
There are still many articles that have been semi-protected since
January. For some of these, that may be a good idea, but I also see
quite a few where continued semi-protection seems unnecessary and
continued protection mostly an oversight. Again, de: does not label
protected pages as such, so they can be easily overlooked. So while it
might make sense for them to start doing so, the evidence seems strong
enough that auto-expiry alone would be a useful tool for de: sysops at
least. I'm sure the situation is similar in other languages (logic can
be as valuable as data ;-).
If you want to write and maintain a bot, that would be a great first step.
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Peace & Love,
Erik
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