Author: silonov
Description:
Protection of 3 namespaces for the ru:wiktionary
Herewith we request to protect from unregistered users (UUs) three most important namespaces of the Russian Wiktionary (Викисловарь) - the Main namespace, Categories and Templates. We've discussed the issue in our community and agreed upon such a measure. Our considerations:
- At this stage the Russian Wiktionary (as have many other language domains of the project) has evolved into a very complicated system with rather strict rules. Being a multi-lingual, multi-functional dictionary means that it has to strictly maintain uniformity of article structure - otherwise it cannot be reasonably considered dictionary, but merely a disorganized pile of information. Unlike what can be observed in Wikipedia, the representation of the content in Wictionary in not less important than the content itself. Even well-intentioned UUs generally fail to read, understand and/or comply with the rules of the Wiktionary and thus expose the articles to the risk of disfiguring.
- More than 95% of edits made by UUs end up requiring admin attention, whether it involves brushing up the added (usually in miniscule amounts) content, reverting or deleting the changes immediately. To date, according to the estimates, about 40% constitute outright vandalism, about 20% - spam, and the remainder, being well-intentioned, does not comply with the rules adopted for the project and thus deteriorate the articles rather than improve them; moreover, a significant part of it constitutes copyvio.
- Over 90% of useful edits to the Wiktionary are made by Registered Users (RUs), including both creation of the new articles and enhancing the existing ones.
- About 20% of the time many of the most active and productive RUs contribute to the project is dedicated to simply tracking down and undoing or improving the edits of the UUs, which we have started to consider an undue waste of time and effort, not to mention an added wiki engine overhead (dozens and sometimes hundreds of useless transactions every day). Thus, securing the main namespace from occasional unqualified newcomers will very likely accelerate the development of the project rather than slow it down.
- The registration procedure is not at all complicated, while imposing some responsibility onto the users. Besides, all the talk/discussion pages and many other namespaces of the project will remain open to UUs, so restriction will not be excessive. Also, most of the active users of Wikimedia projects use the Single user login feature.
The same goes for the Belorussian Wiktionary (be:wiktionary). There was no discussion there - since there actually is no community at present; so being pretty much the single user and the same time the single sysop of be:wikt I confirm the necessity of the same measure for be: as well.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
URL: http://ru:wiktionary