Thread:Sannse/@comment-30567431-20170727183009/@comment-8-20170727202624

The ideal is for pages only to be protected as an emergency measure when there's a lot of vandalism or something like a edit war (two people repeatedly undoing each other's edits). I'm not saying you can't do it (within reason) but I strongly discourage it.

Protecting for editing has a couple of problems. Firstly, the articles tend to end up being protected long-term, with the protection often forgotten. Even if the protection is removed at the end of editing, it stops people going in to fix genuine problems in between the admin's edits - like typos. It's also something that only admins can do of course, it's not very fair to let admins protect to give themselves exclusive access when others can't.

Talking of admins, I was looking at Recent Changes and was very concerned to see that basically only the admins and Karen are editing - that's not a sign of a healthy community. Given the disagreements among just the four of you who are editing, I can see why others might be scared to jump in! I see that as a serious problem on the wiki.

As I've said before, this wiki needs some acceptance of messiness with the knowledge that the overall trend will be positive.

Perhaps a way forward would be to encourage people to edit with a to-do list like [|this one on the Glee Wiki]. I can enable that for you to have a look if you like.