[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is ... free web hosting?

[Steven Walling]

Steven Walling wrote:
> So, as far as you're concerned I can setup some joke page entirely
> unrelated to Wikipedia on Wikipedia. Redirect a domain name to it. Use
> CSS hacks to overwrite the user interface. .. and keep it protected to
> prevent unapproved people from modifying my website.   Did I get that
> right?

What CSS hacks? It looks like a perfectly ordinary Wikipedia page to me,
complete with all components of the standard user interface. I do notice
now that the text "Welcome to the Jungle!" has been inserted above the
horizontal rule at the top of the page, in a spot that's normally blank
on other pages, but this hardly seems like a reason to freak out.

I oppose protection unless there's a good and ongoing reason, as a
general rule. But that's been taken care of too.

So yeah, I really don't see what the problem is.

I didn't write that, I responded to it.

On Jan 30, 2008 3:20 PM, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Steven Walling wrote:
> > So, as far as you're concerned I can setup some joke page entirely
> > unrelated to Wikipedia on Wikipedia. Redirect a domain name to it. Use
> > CSS hacks to overwrite the user interface. .. and keep it protected to
> > prevent unapproved people from modifying my website.   Did I get that
> > right?
>
> What CSS hacks? It looks like a perfectly ordinary Wikipedia page to me,
> complete with all components of the standard user interface. I do notice
> now that the text "Welcome to the Jungle!" has been inserted above the
> horizontal rule at the top of the page, in a spot that's normally blank
> on other pages, but this hardly seems like a reason to freak out.
>
> I oppose protection unless there's a good and ongoing reason, as a
> general rule. But that's been taken care of too.
>
> So yeah, I really don't see what the problem is.
>
>
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