Wikipedia:WikiProject Semiprotect
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WikiProject on Semiprotect status
[edit] Scope
Many RC patrol members spend a significant amount of time to revert misguided energy of vandals. Articles such as George W. Bush, Abortion, Creationism, etc.. are at a constant state of vandalist attack. Vandals would less likely to vandalise these articles as a set of restrictions (to be established) will inconviniance/prevent them from vandalising as easily. Articles such as George W. Bush can be quite unreliable at times. --Cool Cat My Talk 03:26, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Participants
- --Cool Cat My Talk 03:11, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
- -- novacatz 04:23, 10 August 2005 (UTC) (relatively new to wikipedia, not sure what to do)
[edit] Structure
[edit] Estabslishing restrictions. Proposed restrictions
[edit] Edit count, logged in users only
The idea is that we require user to log in and have n many edits prior to editing a semi-protected page.
[edit] Pro
- Vandals will need to make n number of edits. Fewer vandals will have the patience.
- Vandals that vandalise political/contraversial pages due to their personal POV. (ie people vandalising George W. Bush just because they hate the guy)
- Certain articles that exist to be vandalise will be reliable.
- RC patrol will deal with lesser vandalim, or a slower rate of vandalism.
[edit] Con
- Vandals may instead vandalise random pages.
- May promote a minor level of elitisim although not intended.
- An entier new policy. One new thing for admins to deal with.
[edit] Verification
Below is the email from wiki-pipermail
Hi! I've added to MediaWiki a feature which could be an alternative to page protection: the verify feature. I've added to the sysops' bar a 'verify'/'unverify' button: 'verify' sets the current revision as 'verified'. When there is a 'verified' revision, users can still edit the page, but new revisions are not shown until a sysops verifies it again (of course, even new revisions can be accessed though the history, and the verified one, if any, is in bold). 'Unverify', of course, removes the protection. I think this would be a very good alternative to page protection against vandals. I would like to heard what do you think of it. Regards, Salvatore
[edit] Pro
- Already implemented by devs according to the email, not avalible in the admin tool bar, yet.
- Pages will be able to be edited by even the newest editor
- Article will be reliable
[edit] Con
- A new load to admins.
[edit] How should a pages semiprotected status be determined?
[edit] Admins will power, identical to how it works on {{portected}}
[edit] Pro
- Pages are semi-protected swiftly on demand
[edit] Con
- Just like {{protected}}, this function is open for abuse.
[edit] A voting system
SImilar to VfD users vote to semi protect pages
[edit] Pro
- "Democratic"
[edit] Con
- Likely to be cluttered like VfD
- Yet a nother vote!
[edit] Goals
- Inconvenience/Discourage/Exterminate! vandals.
- Make articles such as George W. Bush, Abortion more reliable as these articles get vandalised multiple times a day.
[edit] Projects
[edit] Tasks
- ?
[edit] General strategy and discussion forums
- /General
- /Strategy
[edit] Other subpages
[edit] Templates
[edit] Infoboxes
- {{subst:template}}
- e.g.{{Infobox projectname}}
- {{Semiprotect}}
[edit] Other templates
- {{template}}
Template:VotesforSemiprotect
[edit] Categories
- Category:Semiprotected
[edit] Archives
- #1