[WikiEN-l] 172--what happened

Tue Apr 1 19:25:27 UTC 2003

Jason Williams wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:50:52PM -0500, The Cunctator wrote:
>
>>And page protection should just about never be used. It's much healthier
>>to just ignore the page for a while.
>>
>
>And what of the people who come to the 'pedia while it's being
>ignored? 
>
>Perhaps there should be a new option to allow sysops to place
>a block of protected text at the top of a page. A nice way
>would be for text above a certain identifier (eg, "<<<<")
>to only be editable by sysops. This would allow a lighter
>touch than protecting a page while still indicating that
>the contents might need some salt added.
>
I've had an idea.  If a page is being blocked to cool off an edit war, 
trying to edit the page could redirect to a graphic of somebody standing 
in an obviously freezing shower, with the caption "The cold water will 
be shut off in xxx minutes".

Ec