Wikipedia talk:Semi-protection/July 2005 proposal

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I predict the main achievement of this project will be to "Inconviniance/Discourage/Exterminate!" contributors. Our most controvertial articles are some of our most active - "good-willed" editors and, very importantly, anons will not be able to participate. The cost is certainly not worth any advantages. --Oldak Quill 17:04, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

I would disagree with the above sentiment. The cost of having a 'semi-protect' would be the loss of editors with little history. Given the activity of the controversial articles - I don't think barring the potential edits of someone who is new to wiki will have an adverse effect on the article quality. At the end of the day, if they have something important/useful surely they can put up with something like 'you can edit after having an account for one week'. novacatz 09:19, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

Levels of Protection
read this (its the last edit before it was deleted by Angela) --TIB (talk) 00:21, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 14:19, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:32, 30 December 2006 (UTC)