Re: wiki "abuse"

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 7, 2010, 20:46 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=zweJJx8LcvBZA2TeLPk4JAg+Utm5yu=pCVTLV@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@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 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.
>
> I say this without malice: Nobody really cares who you are.

Unless somebody wonders... Who did this change? The answer is one click away.

It's a feature of mediawiki, so either turn it off, or allow it. Personally I don't see any harm in user pages.

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Felipe Contreras