Re: wiki "abuse"
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Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
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- Aug 9, 2010, 21:27 UTC
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Heya,
2010/8/9 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>:
> You must be one of those übermench to whom the concept of > procrastination is unknown :)
Not that, but I am leery of people trying to promote their site like this.
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> FWIW the contents were (sorry Johannes): > > Amir E. Aharoni, a proud SVN user. > > * [http://aharoni.wordpress.com/ Aharoni in Unicode, ya mama - blog] > ** [http://aharoni.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/advocacy-for-the-uncool/ a > reality check for git fanboys] > > FWIW he seems to be able to contribute to Wikipedia without being > banned for trolling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amire80
I think there's a significant quality difference between that wikipedia profile and what was on the wiki.
> As an aside, that's not an unusual user page for Wikipedia. Which I > think goes a long way to clearing up the obvious culture clash here.
I agree, the Wikipedia page looks a lot more like a user page, and a lot less like a shameless plug because his wiki profile links to other wiki pages, not to his personal website.
-- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier