On 10/02/2014 09:07 PM, Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
Anybody that risks death by editing Wikipedia is an idiot: no privacy system is secure enough and no information is important enough to make that a reasonable decision.
I wouldn't have put it that way, but I've been saying something to that effect to sockmasters for some time when they pull out the "my security is in peril" card -- editing Wikipedia is an intrinsically *public* activity, and if doing so places you at risk of harm then you should not be editing at all as no technology or privacy policy will protect you to that level.
[...] Recognizing that it is nothing more but a repository of pop culture would allow us to prioritize protecting the site over the imaginary right to privately edit articles about Disney starlets.
That, on the other hand, is a both unfair and unwarranted slur on the work of countless volunteers. Even those that /do/ work on topics of popular culture bring value, but that characterization is nothing short of a demeaning insult to all -- including those volunteers who slave away on the parts of the encyclopedia even the snottiest of elitist must admit has value to mankind.
Please read he (coincidentally topical) https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-October/074792.html before you embarass yourself further. (And a worth of thanks perhaps couched as an apology to those volunteers might be in order).
-- Marc