On 24/04/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/23/07, Blu Aardvark jeffrey.latham@gmail.com wrote:
The author had a legitimate complaint. Wikipedia contained libel against herself which was missed entirely by Wikipedia editors and processes. Let's not attack the author or the paper for once again pointing out one of Wikipedia's core problems.
Quite. I think we're disturbingly close to "killing the messenger" in this thread.
Oh, absolutely. Though that it started as a vanity article really doesn't lessen the living bios headache.
(The stable versions feature is ticking along nicely as I understand it - the paid dev is doing great work and there's a pile of volunteers helping. The problem is that it's an easily-described feature, but actually implementing it on MediaWiki means getting into just about everything. Hence the long time between its suggestion, at the time of the Indian Ocean tsunami, and it going live anywhere at all.)
- d.