On 8 June 2010 22:01, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > A coupla years ago we had 200 protected pages and 800 semi-protected > pages. What are current numbers?
In mainspace, "a few thousand", all told, I think. Probably over our 2k limit but not by an order of magnitude. > (Having the protected pages go PC would be a big win for all, and I > include [[Main Page]] in that. Just imagine being able to tell the > press: "The Main Page isn't locked any more." Of course, the templates > that make it up still will be ...) It'd be a bit gimmicky, no? I can't imagine any change that'll not be immediately reverted or ignored. There's no actual content there; it's been edited nine times this year and four of those were errors-and-self-reverts. Pending-changes won't be appropriate for all fully protected pages, either, of course. For example, it'll quite likely prove unmanageable with those which are protected due to sheer volume of editing - I can't be sure of this until it's implemented, of course, but I suspect on an individual basis we'd get overwhelmed quite a bit there trying to separate out the good diffs and the vandalism to get a stable improved version. On the other hand, that's only a very small fraction of protections. I can't immediately think of any others - now we can selectively delete revisions easily, the cases where a page is locked to deal with a particularly focused abuser should lend themselves quite well to this. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l