You would need a bot with admin powers to go through and unprotect the
articles, or there would be massive backlog.
Often, after semi-protection is lifted, the anonymous vandals quickly
return. Therefore, I oppose this idea.
On 11/20/06, Minh Nguyen <mxn(a)zoomtown.com> wrote:
Luna wrote:
Auto-expiring protection sounds like a very
interesting idea -- has anybody
submitted this to Bugzilla?
On 11/12/06, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 11/13/06, James Hare <messedrocker(a)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
>
> Member, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
This should be possible using a couple templates and a bot.
Automatically-expiring templates like [[Template:Prod]] can place an
article in an "expired" category after awhile, and a bot (or human) can
go through and unprotect them. The subst:'d semi-protection template
could take a parameter that determines how quickly the article is placed
into this category, and I'd imagine that you could use the #time:
function to give this parameter the same flexibility as the length field
in [[Special:Blockip]].
I guess it'd be possible for a user to come in later and modify the
expiration date in the article's source code, but since that would
require the user to be unaffected by the semi-protection, they shouldn't
have an incentive to do so. Maybe sysops could compare the original
semiprotect parameter to the current one when unprotecting the page, in
case that parameter gets tampered with.
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