Nevertheless, some are better than others. Certainly an option
susceptible to the easy creation of sleeper accounts is worse than
the other alternatives. I am somewhat at a loss as to how a threshold
based on an edit count could be easily gamed as we could all at least
look at the record. Building up a thousand edits just so you can
vandalize an article seems like an awful lot of work.
Fred
On Jan 2, 2006, at 7:46 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
Fred Bauder wrote:
Please consider my request at Wikipedia:Requests
for
arbitration/Developer help needed
The problem is that semi-protection as now coded relies on % of users
rather than on measurement of edits. This permits stockpiling of
sleeper
accounts which can later be activated as sockpuppets defeating
semi-protection.
There is *no* anything to do with percentage at this time. Nothing
at all.
At the moment, the automated confirmation criteria is based on time
since
registration. Other criteria such as edit counts can be added (but
all of them
can be gamed).
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
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