|From: Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia(a)math.ucr.edu>
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|Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 09:40:39 -0800
|
|Axel Boldt wrote in part:
|
|>* it makes the job of vandals and vandal bots harder, since they have
|>to come up with a meaningful summary each time.
|
|No, they don't -- unless you know of an algorithm
|that we can used to detect whether a summary is meaningful.
|UseModWiki's "*" default isn't empty, after all --
|and "mispeeling" must always work, so they can just use that
|(and look like long-time users that know the inside jokes
|while they're at it).
|
|>* it makes the history page of an article vastly more useful; now I
|>often find myself employing the bisection method to find out when a
|>particular bit of information was inserted.
|
|How about when I just write "Much." in the summary?
|
How about spending five seconds and twenty keystrokes putting in what
you did?
Tom P.
O88
|
|-- Toby
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