"Again, the district asked Wikipedia staff to remove the message, and they complied, even placing a block on the page that bars postings from unidentified e-mail addresses." It's amazing to me how many journalists don't understand something as simple as page protection -- which they could fully understand after, uhm, two seconds on Google? And when have we relied on email addresses for anything but Special:EmailUser?

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> On the other hand, it pretty much explains it.. They got the details > of the mechanism wrong, but autoconfirmation is a bit confusing for > our own users much less anyone else, and the gist of it - some sort of > block was applied which limited what casual visitors could do - came > across fine.

Yes, but I'm a technical person. Technical mistakes bug the crap out of me. :)

2008/4/30 Chris Howie <cdhowie(a)gmail.com>om>: Special:EmailUser? On the other hand, it pretty much explains it.. They got the details of the mechanism wrong, but autoconfirmation is a bit confusing for our own users much less anyone else, and the gist of it - some sort of block was applied which limited what casual visitors could do - came across fine. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

2008/4/30 Elias Friedman <elipongo(a)gmail.com>om>: That's the most we could ask of generalists. Details are far less important in the scheme of things.