On 11/24/05, ilooy <ilooy.gaon(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The fact remains that hundreds and
hundreds of articles were missing and
at that no record of deletions. But
contributors would make new entries
and these would disappear. It has
happened to me and to several
strong contributors on ia.wiki who
are disgusted with the project now.
But you notice, I haven't given up and
I am active in several wikis and I am
asking for a resolution to the matter.
This I find hard to believe. If it is really the case, then you should
get the programmers of the Wikimedia software. Undoubtedly they would
be very interested to hear of even ONE article being lost without a
trace, let alone if it happens regularly as you claim.
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.
So hundreds of thousands of words.
This is definitely not some articles
with a few words each, and definitely
some articles with a lot of text. Are
you telling me that you and this German
collaborator of yours decided to delete
willy-nilly without discussion and with
only the traces of Statistics Tables
to show your massive deletions?
The Wiki was mostly dead at the time. There was nobody to discuss with. I had
But actually you could have had a
discussion with several of us admins,
why didn't you? Why not?
Because there were no sysops around at the time.
...Actually there were sysops around.
Who?
...And stuff was getting cleaned up also
Nope, was not.
...And vandals blocked. And what is your
relationship to Interlingua and who is
this German fellow who you were
collaborating with? Why didn't you
discuss with some of the admins in
ia.wiki?
As I said before, there were none.
Actually, I didn't get rid of anything after all,
did I, and now it seems you had a hand in
ia.wiki all along without discussing anything
with any admins that I know of. So I'm
pleased that things are coming out now.
BTW who is the German fellow you were
collaborating with? And why isn't he
communicating with the admins either?
For the last time, there were none.
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