[WikiEN-l] Colbert Report heads-up

[Philip Welch]

On Aug 3, 2006, at 6:14 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:

>> People who follow such a call are often not very patient. We could  
>> have
>> proected the whole site until the idiot-storm is over. With a big  
>> banner
>> saying so.
>
> That kind of reaction seems like going the wrong way. At the end of
> the day, Wikipedia wants to be open, and it wants to grow and develop.
> We should look at these "idiot storms" as opportunities to attract new
> contributors. It would be cool if we could replace the {{test}}
> template with something like "Hey, thanks for the test - we've undone
> it now, use the sandbox if you need to test anything else. You
> wouldn't happen to know anything about <insert item from requests for
> expansion> or <another item> would you? We're short on information on
> them!"

Great. Invite more vandalism.

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Philip L. Welch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Philwelch