On 4/11/07, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
As I understand it, a Wikipedian from Chicago wrote about committing suicide on-wiki. This resulted in a flurry of discussion on [[WP:ANI]] on what template to stick on a dead user's userpage, and after a while, a couple of bright sparks had the idea to work on finding out who this guy is and how to get him some help in meatspace. Things just developed from there, I suppose.
Oh, cool. Well, I'm glad we didn't end up in the news for having incited someone to kill themselves over the web, like someone else did a few months ago.
Steve