On 21/04/06, maru dubshinki marudubshinki@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/19/06, BorgHunter borghunter.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
maru dubshinki wrote:
We shouldn't examine that data, however. Very bad precedent, and poor for privacy, especially since we aren't dealing with out-and-out vandals here, but merely critics.
But should critics of Wikipedia be admins of Wikipedia? I don't believe so. However, I suppose it's up to Jimbo and the Board if they want to expend the energy to look into it. As for privacy...it's not against the privacy policy, and besides which, I'm not sure that's an invasion of privacy anyway. You're sending data to the Wikimedia servers every time you visit a page, and that info is logged, and you (should) know that. I have no problems with the devs looking through page access logs, myself.
We should be the critics of Wikipedia! I mean, admins make up by far the majority of the group of the most qualified-to-criticize-Wikipedia. Your average admin knows far more about Wikipedia than just about everyone except the rare various Wales, Sanger, Foundation member/employees, and developers, and certainly more than your average current critic like Brandt or the various reporters we keep reading.
A sample conversation a little while ago at work:
Boss: "Wikipedia scares me." AG: "It scares the *hell* out of me"
This seems to be a broadly held opinion among admins...
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