Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-23989026-20140205043307/@comment-366087-20140205050727

Locking Most-to-All pages on a wiki is a violation of TOU. I've seen cases where someone adopted a wiki and within a week's time had been stripped of their newly gained rights for failure to heed the warning of Staff to *unlock* the wiki's pages.

That said, three of the valid default reasons to protect pages includes "excessive edit warring", "Excessive vandalism", and "high-traffic page". Depending on the wiki, high-traffic pages includes certain templates and main pages, and arguably can be protected indefinitely.

Which is not to say that there are not administrators with the "Mine! Mine!" mindset when it comes to the wikis they've been entrusted with.

The above also does not take into account how badly affected by vandals, trolls, and spammers a wiki may be. Last year I came into a wiki in which more than half the pages were protected. However I could see the justification for doing so as trolling vandals would sweep through and affect all the pages they could because the then admin was only on maybe once a week, and had grown tired of having to spend hours mopping up the mess. With the continuous presence of the new admin, the trolls soon left for greener pastures. I'm just now getting around to unlocking those pages, and there are a lot of them.

All I can say about your four examples is if there are active local admins, message them to either unlock the pages so you may effect the needed edits, or provide them the information needed to do it themselves If none are active, consider adopting those wikis.