Thread:Project:Current issues/Replace full protection with FlaggedRevs/reply (3)

I'm thinking all of them, really. It might be worth revisiting what we understand by "worth unprotecting". There is always a small detail (a typo, a minor rephrasing to make things clearer, etc.) that we will overlook — nothing's ever perfect, after all. As an example, just yesterday I noticed that the main page has a link to "How does MediaWiki work?", a redirect that can be replaced with its actual target, "Manual:What is MediaWiki?". Requiring edit requests makes the workload for such small edits triple. Besides, this wiki doesn't get much vandalism/spam (AFAIK), so it shouldn't be such a problem.

In any case, we can certainly try it with one or two pages and reassess after a month or two. Any edits will only be visible immediately if made by reviewers or admins, and should any of them screw up (which is rather unlikely to happen, as you might imagine), the right can easily be removed; at the same time, autoconfirmed users will be empowered to suggest edits (to make a git analogy, that's kind of a pull request rather than a patch, where the final repository gets the actual authorship in the version history). So what do you say about a test trive?