On 5/8/07, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/8/07, K P <kpbotany(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One other problem Wikipedia has. If you log onto
Wikipedia on a public
computer, your user name stays forever on that public computer--there is
no
way to not have a computer you use not save your
Wikipedia user
name. Web
sites that do this are just asking for their
users' accounts to be
hacked--the rest of the universe is probably not as rich and computer
savvy
as many Wikipedia editors.
Not forever, and it's simple to have the 3 most commonbowsers to
"forget that data". You just need to learn it. So it's incorrect to
state "there is no way to not have a computer you use not save your
Wikipedia user name"
OF course, if you don't know how, you can't do it. But it's not
impossible and it's not hard either.
This is about people who use public computers. Many public computers don't
allow you to access browser settings. Many people using public computers
are using them because they don't have one at home, these are the people
least likely to know how to do this, or that it needs done, even if they
were able to access browser settings on the public computer. Wikipedia
needs to function in a way that doesn't require you to be a computer
geek--it's a rich world, but only for a small elite portion of the people
living on it. Wikipedia as a community doesn't seem to think well beyond
their limited sphere--this is always disappointing.
KP