Using Wikipedia, to me at least, means reading, learning from. Editing, on the other hand, means making changes.

You'd say the same for any other encyclopaedia -- I have used EB, but certainly never _edited_ it.

Mark

On 02/11/05, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:

Forwarded from Wikien-l.

I wonder if it would be useful to have an index of external URLs that supports throttling of the # of times per day a given base URL can be added to WP sites...

SJ

PS - this is my favorite part -- "I'm a regular wikipedia user although i don't have an account here" I wonder how many people consider themselves 'regular uers' -- and how many of those actually read user and policy pages...

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brett Gustafson brett.gustafson@gmail.com Date: Nov 2, 2005 7:22 PM Subject: [WikiEN-l] Shock site bot To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org

I recently recieved this message from a user: "I'm a regular wikipedia user although i don't have an account here. I think this site is great and it really helps me with my college work. But I recently heard of these people that were talking about wikipedia that they were all programming a hack for it. So after a little while I found it was a spider to hunt down all the pages links and change them to shocks site links or something along those lines. I didn't know who to tell so I just thought I'd tell an administrator as they might know who to tell or what to do. Just giving an advanced warning so you might be able to do something to protect this wonderful resourse. Apparently they permenantly change their ip address using some thing (a bit beyond me). Something like that. I just didn't know what to do. I hope I didn't embaress myself here. Thanks for your time."

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