One thing strikes me about this e-mail that makes a part of me say "Oh, well, good then" when I see it, which is the author's comment that she was unaware that Wikipedia accepted external submissions. Not that I think seeing a vandalized article is a good thing, but that... it is probably a good thing that she learned what kind of resource Wikipedia is and how it works.
So I take this as a sign also that we should probably do more to make users aware that they can edit Wikipedia.
-Snowspinner On Jan 7, 2005, at 9:02 AM, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
I am anonymizing this complaint, but I wanted to point it out to people and to point out that complaints of this type are increasingly common. As we get more and more popular, vandalism of popular articles, though corrected very very quickly, is also seen by more and more people.