On 5/8/07, Pedro Sanchez pdsanchez@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/8/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
One other problem Wikipedia has. If you log onto Wikipedia on a public computer, your user name stays forever on that public computer--there is
no
way to not have a computer you use not save your Wikipedia user
name. Web
sites that do this are just asking for their users' accounts to be hacked--the rest of the universe is probably not as rich and computer
savvy
as many Wikipedia editors.
Not forever, and it's simple to have the 3 most commonbowsers to "forget that data". You just need to learn it. So it's incorrect to state "there is no way to not have a computer you use not save your Wikipedia user name"
OF course, if you don't know how, you can't do it. But it's not impossible and it's not hard either.
This is about people who use public computers. Many public computers don't allow you to access browser settings. Many people using public computers are using them because they don't have one at home, these are the people least likely to know how to do this, or that it needs done, even if they were able to access browser settings on the public computer. Wikipedia needs to function in a way that doesn't require you to be a computer geek--it's a rich world, but only for a small elite portion of the people living on it. Wikipedia as a community doesn't seem to think well beyond their limited sphere--this is always disappointing.
KP