I guess what I suggest is that we thank them for whatever data they collect and use it to correct any problems they find to the extent we can without disrupting the Wiki mechanism. If Wikipedia can stand amateur editors it can stand amateur researchers, especially if we welcome whatever they discover.
Good ideas have already come out of these researches.
Fred
From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com Reply-To: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com, English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 00:15:31 +0200 To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Another troll "testing" Wikipedia
The harm is that everyone and their brother is trying to be a smart ass by posting these "researches" and "investigations into the effectiveness of the wiki system" on their stupid blogs and its turning into some lame trend of late.