On 10/12/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/12/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
(Also, look at the press on the WikiScanner. Wikipedia came across as imperfect but basically a useful and noble endeavour; the people who'd edited discovered that "conflict of interest" isn't "what I can justify to myself" or "what's on the Wikipedia guideline page" but "what the public and press will lynch me for" - and the last of those turned out to be a fair bit harsher than the second. We don't *need* to make a big fuss ourselves. 'Cos we're nice and all.)
So you support publishing the IPs of every edit?
No, I'm saying it was interesting and a harsh lesson to conflicted editors.
Ah, it sounded like you thought the COI disclosure was a good thing, but since far more COI editors will be smart enough to make accounts....