2005/11/24, ilooy <ilooy.gaon(a)gmail.com>om>:
2005/11/24, Ray Saintonge
<saintonge(a)telus.net>et>:
Before you start engaging in drastic or punitive
actions it helps to
discuss the problem with him first.. Negotiation can be a wonderful tool.
Well, it was maybe a matte of
shoot first then ask questions.
It's unlikely for a dead man to answer...
I had asked about the situation
before from others, and no one
seems to know why there were
so many deletions and why the
article counts were so screwy.
Like a hundred thousand words
deleted. That wasn't just a few
articles with "stubs". And that's
only one instance.
People had been putting up the complete text of books of the Bible,
the book of Mormons and the Koran. Those have been deleted by
Dissident in February.
There are
negative new article entries???
What's up with that?
There was a whole lot of inappropriate material added (articles in
other languages, year pages that contained no text except for on each
page the same explanation of what Interlingua was, entries with
nothing but a single translation, empty pages, vandalism), and there
was no sysop to clean it up. Then someone took on the job (I don't
remember who, but it was a German and I helped him) and deleted it all
in less than a week. Thus, for that month (August 2004) the number was
indeed negative.
And the complaints from disgusted
contributors who kept wondering
where were articles that they'd
edited? And I've experienced it
myself. Sometimes I'd think that
they were problems with the software,
that perhaps there were upgrades,
or shutdowns which required the
reloading of a database... and what
else... I don't know... no one seems
to know obviously.
No, and apparently if Jcb can't say anything about it, you suddenly
get to know it?
What I did find was that Jcb was
deleting articles. And he did have
a bot active on the wiki. So I posted
that I was blocking him until the
matter could be resolved with the
deletions going on in ia.wiki
and that's the situation up to now.
Shoot first, ask questions later, and then complain when you are
blamed for shooting, in other words.
Get rid of the only person actually doing moderator work. Excellent
way of improving your wiki...
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