On 12/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/12/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> (Also, look at the press on the WikiScanner.
Wikipedia came across as
> imperfect but basically a useful and noble endeavour; the people who'd
> edited discovered that "conflict of interest" isn't "what I can
> justify to myself" or "what's on the Wikipedia guideline page"
but
> "what the public and press will lynch me for" - and the last of those
> turned out to be a fair bit harsher than the second. We don't *need*
> to make a big fuss ourselves. 'Cos we're nice and all.)
So you support publishing the IPs of every edit?
No, I'm saying it was interesting and a harsh lesson to conflicted editors.
- d.