Hi,
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 12:56, Amir E. Aharoni
> <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>> I have accounts on dozens of wikis and i am an admin on a few of them.
>> I opened an account on https://git.wiki.kernel.org/ , created a user
>> page and put there a link to my blog. That's always the first thing i
>> do on wikis to which i plan to contribute, because that's the easiest
>> way to tell the world who i am before i start changing pages that
>> other people wrote. It's not so different from filling in the
>> "website" field on the profile page on GitHub, Twitter, LinkedIn or
>> any other website and it's pretty normative.
>>
>> On the Git wiki, however, the user page i created was deleted for
>> "link spam" and my account was blocked for "Spamming links to external
>> sites". I asked on the deleting admin's user talk page what is wrong
>> about putting a link to my blog. The admin didn't reply, but deleted
>> my question with the comment "Inappropriate abuse of the Wiki as a
>> messenger, as well as abuse of the admin". On all the wikis i know the
>> whole point of user talk pages is sending messages between users and
>> with all seriousness i just can't understand how what i did
>> constitutes "abuse of the admin".
>>
>> It is possible, of course, that this wiki has different rules. For
>> example, you may want nothing but technical pages and no personal
>> content whatsoever. Although it is quite contrary to the wiki idea, it
>> is legitimate, but you should at least write it somewhere. Wikis
>> usually have a "Help" or a "Community portal" page - i couldn't find
>> anything like that on yours. And if you don't want user and user talk
>> pages to exist, just don't allow people to edit them in the first
>> place.
>>
>> I would be glad to have my account, Amire80, unblocked. I can open
>> another one, but i happen to like this user name.
>
> See also the rest of the thread on gmane [0].
>
> [0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/152861
>
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> Cheers,
>
> Sverre Rabbelier
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