In order to think about how page protection should change, we need some information about what the current practice it. Especially, it would be interesting to know, if specific protection patterns are used (e.g. no protection - semi protection - full protection - semi protection).
The idea is to build graphs that contain of three parts: The middle part is the protection level in question (i.e. semi protect). The first part is which level there was before the protection level was set to the one in question, and the third part is what it changed to.
The change doesn't necessarily need to have happened immediately after it, but after a reasonable timeframe (maybe 2 days?)
The questions that would be possible to answer is:
Is it true, that protection usually changes after expiry, to something else than "unprotected"?
Is there a typical protection pattern that is currently done manually?
Bonus questions:
- How long are protections currently in place (ideally by level)?
- is it always the same person who does the changes or are the multiple people responsible for protecting one site?
Background:
Wish #7 of the 2015 German-speaking community survey was T142209: Allow pages to have multiple overlapping protection levels