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Re: wiki "abuse"

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Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il>
Date
Aug 7, 2010, 20:00 UTC
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2010/8/7 Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>:
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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.

And you are quite right, but from several years of experience with wikis i saw much more misunderstanding coming from editing without creating a user page than from creating a user page without editing, so what happened to me today was quite shocking.

And all the more: if you don't care about user pages, just lock them for editing.

-- 
אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
Amir Elisha Aharoni

http://aharoni.wordpress.com

"We're living in pieces,
 I want to live in peace." - T. Moore
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  2. Michael WittenAug 7, 2010
  3. Amir E. AharoniAug 7, 2010
  4. david@lang.hmAug 8, 2010
  5. Amir E. AharoniAug 8, 2010
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