[WikiEN-l] Please change your passwords.

[K P]

On 5/8/07, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/8/07, K P <kpbotany at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > One other problem Wikipedia has.  If you log onto Wikipedia on a public
> > computer, your user name stays forever on that public computer--there is
> no
> > way to not have a computer you use not save your Wikipedia user
> name.  Web
> > sites that do this are just asking for their users' accounts to be
> > hacked--the rest of the universe is probably not as rich and computer
> savvy
> > as many Wikipedia editors.
>
> Not forever, and it's simple to have the 3 most commonbowsers to
> "forget that data". You just need to learn it. So it's incorrect to
> state "there is no way  to not have a computer you use not save your
> Wikipedia user name"
>
> OF course, if you don't know how, you can't do it. But it's not
> impossible and it's not hard either.


This is about people who use public computers.  Many public computers don't
allow you to access browser settings.  Many people using public computers
are using them because they don't have one at home, these are the people
least likely to know how to do this, or that it needs done, even if they
were able to access browser settings on the public computer.  Wikipedia
needs to function in a way that doesn't require you to be a computer
geek--it's a rich world, but only for a small elite portion of the people
living on it.  Wikipedia as a community doesn't seem to think well beyond
their limited sphere--this is always disappointing.

KP