[WikiEN-l] Re: Re: Re: Separate namespace for Deletions and other achives?

Sun Dec 11 03:57:02 UTC 2005

Oh, I want it very much to be as automated as possible.  A bot could archive what we've got already, and then be set up to archive at such-and-such an interval.  For AfD, it could be every 24 hours.  For RfA, that could be done manually, there's only a few promotions per day at most.

--Ryan

> From: "M. Creidieki Crouch" <creidieki at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Separate namespace for Deletions and other
> 	achives?
> 
> On 12/10/05, Ryan W. (Merovingian) <bigwiki at earthling.net> wrote:
> > I like that idea a lot, but I would suggest that those pages 
> > moved to such a namespace stay protected, in the same way that 
> > the MediaWiki: namespace is.  If the pages are only archives, 
> > there's no reason in having to patrol them for vandalism.
> 
> That sounded really good at first thought, but if the entire namespace
> is protected, nonadmins wouldn't be able to archive pages.
> 
> Admittedly, that would mean that people would run for admin saying, "I
> want to archive ---", and would probably end up slightly relaxing the
> standards for admins.  I don't know whether that would be good or bad.
> 
> We might be able to get around this problem with some sort of an
> "archive this page" bot or tool, or some other hack.
> 
> But if we don't protect the namespace, I don't think that the
> vandalism potential is changed at all from our current position.
> 
> -- Creidieki

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