About two-thirds of the 30 semiprotected talk pages (and in some case the associated articles) have been unprotected. One of the articles was reprotected after immediate spamming (to be fair, it *is* called "poop", so I was obviously very naive there!) The others are still unprotected.
I've made slow, steady progress on the semiprotection reviews. You can see the results on my talk page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Tony_Sidaway#Review_of_semiprotected_articles At the moment I'm dealing with the older indefinite semiprotections--those that have survived for two years--so quite a high proportion turn out to be obvious vandalism magnets or biographies of living persons that have encountered severe enough problems to become semiprotected. Of the remainder, about 18 out of 100 articles looked due for review so I put a note on each talk page and contacted the protecting admins. Of those 17 reviews, I withdrew one on further information, one has been declined by the sysop, three quickly reached consensus to keep protection, and four have been unprotected. leaving ten articles still under review. This is very slow work but I think we should probably do it from time to time, as part of the principle of keeping Wikipedia an open encyclopedia. On 9/6/09, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/9/6 Tony Sidaway <tonysida...@gmail.com>: >> On 9/5/09, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Is there a machine readable version of the protection log anywhere? >>> >> >> You could probably use the MediaWiki API to do this: >> >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API >> >> Alternatively find some of the following regular reports easy to parse: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports > > I've just found that there is a database dump of all the logs. It is > nearly a gig for enwiki, but I can manage that. I'm downloading it now > and will try and get some useful stats out of it. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
