On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2008/4/30 Chris Howie <cdhowie(a)gmail.com>om>:
"Again, the district asked Wikipedia staff to remove the message, and
they complied, even placing a block on the page that bars postings
from unidentified e-mail addresses."
It's amazing to me how many journalists don't understand something as
simple as page protection -- which they could fully understand after,
uhm, two seconds on Google?
And when have we relied on email addresses for anything but Special:EmailUser?
On the other hand, it pretty much explains it.. They got the details
of the mechanism wrong, but autoconfirmation is a bit confusing for
our own users much less anyone else, and the gist of it - some sort of
block was applied which limited what casual visitors could do - came
across fine.
Yes, but I'm a technical person. Technical mistakes bug the crap out of me. :)
--
Chris Howie