On Apr 1, 2005 7:04 AM, Rick giantsrick13@yahoo.com wrote:
OK, it's out of control now. Changing all of the edit button titles and making people think they have new messages when they don't are just confusing people. And now people are changing the counts of articles on minor language Wikipedias. We're getting lots of people totally confused and thinking that we've been hacked, and I'm worried that we're not going to be able to put things back to the way they were.
Page move vandalism is vandalism, I don't care what you call it.
And some "apparent" vandal changed the Main Page to say that Terri Schiavo died from autofellatio. How do we tell them not to vandalize Wikipedia if everybody else is doing it, too?
RickK
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I presume the madness will be "officially" terminated at 12pm UTC, and all can get to work restoring things.
In fairness, I think after such time the gloves are off in terms of dealing with those who wish to ensure continued disruption.
Regardless of the madness, I'm glad people decided not to be too high and mighty and pretend Wikipedia was something it's not. The attitudes of Wikipedia's editors mean it will *never* be Encyclopaedia Britannica. But perhaps it has already won some measure of respect for being something a lot more real, and likely to be just as valuable, if not more so (and again, possibly this is already the case).
I hope people are not kept awake at night because we looked a bit (OK, very) silly for half a day.
Zoney