Re: wiki "abuse"

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 9, 2010, 23:40 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTinLPAvKpsU+ucNJky7bghy_YAoYYmPisgHq_cdH@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1008100051440.2983@bonsai2>

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> Here's a useful Wikipedia guideline: assume good faith:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith
>
> For the dear love of God.
>
> Just assume -- hypothetically -- for one second that you, Felipe
> Contreras, tried to create a user page on
> http://subversion.tigris.org/wiki/ reading like this:
>
> -- snip --
> Felipe E. Contreras, a proud Git user.
>
> * [http://felipec.wordpress.com/ Felipe Contreras]
> ** [http://felipec.wordpress.com/tag/git/ Keep an open mind]
> ** [http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/ Git is better]
> -- snap --
>
> only that the last link was to one of your blog posts and was not well
> researched.
>
> If you still think that such a completely unbiased and uncontroversial
> user page was a good idea,

That's a straw man fallacy.

What I think is a good idea to have in a wiki is irrelevant; we are talking about how to deal with (apparently) unwanted content coming from good faithed user. Banning right away without warning, nor guidelines is *definitely* not the right thing to do.

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> well, you should take over the monitoring of
> the Git Wiki, I guess, and make sure you remove all link spam. Actually, I
> like that idea. Can you do that, please? Can you watch the recent changes
> of the Git Wiki and keep it a place where information is king? Thank you
> so much in advance!

Yes, give me the admin rights, my user is 'Felipec'. Apparently this is the only way to get rid of spam false positives.

-- 
Felipe Contreras