[WikiEN-l] userpage and user subpage protection

Mon Jul 25 19:38:35 UTC 2005

And furthermore, if for some reason you don't want people editing your
user page(s), you can put a note on them saying not to, and most
people will listen, other then vandals. I have a note on mine saying
TO edit it, and not many people do, other then vandals and
anti-vandals :(

On 7/25/05, steve v <vertigosteve at yahoo.com> wrote:
> It may not be controversial as much as off topic.
> "Protection" is an issue for sysops alone, almost
> exclusively to provide for stability for pages which
> may be too much in flux--from vandalism to POV wars.
> Protection is something that is frowned upon as
> "unwiki", as if one sought to add secrecy or privacy
> to parts of Wikipedia. To distinguish subpages from
> other pages would require some software hacks,
> ("Please DIY") and otherwise would still present a
> wikiethical issue.
> 
> Further, protection may be associated with page
> visiblity, and "blacklists" to keep certain pages
> "private" (software currenly allows for system
> whitelists). While privacy might be nice on Wikinews
> for example, to emulate private "journalistic
> conference" for "scoop" discussions between editors
> and writers, I doubt that even subpage protection will
> happen on Wikipedia, aside from system stuff like
> monobook.css, etc. You can make your notes as <!--
> hidden comments --> on there, if you want, but they
> will still be visible. ;)
> 
> In general, its been principle to keep things open,
> open, and open, though probably nobody would complain
> if you became a sysop and protected your own subpages.
> 
> 
> SV
> 
> 
> --- Jtkiefer <jtkiefer at wordzen.net> wrote:
> 
> > I know that there have been discussions about this
> > in the past and that
> > this subject has been controversial, however for the
> > life of me I have
> > not been able to find a full discussion on this so I
> > thought I'd ask
> > here what the whole issue is with subpage and
> > userpage protection and
> > why is it so controversial and disputed?
> >
> > -Jtkiefer
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