[WikiEN-l] School threats on Wikipedia for more than a year, classes canceled, teen held -LA Times (UPI)

[Andrew Gray]

2008/4/30 Chris Howie <cdhowie at gmail.com>:
>
> "Again, the district asked Wikipedia staff to remove the message, and
> they complied, even placing a block on the page that bars postings
> from unidentified e-mail addresses."
>
> It's amazing to me how many journalists don't understand something as
> simple as page protection -- which they could fully understand after,
> uhm, two seconds on Google?
>
> And when have we relied on email addresses for anything but Special:EmailUser?

On the other hand, it pretty much explains it.. They got the details
of the mechanism wrong, but autoconfirmation is a bit confusing for
our own users much less anyone else, and the gist of it - some sort of
block was applied which limited what casual visitors could do - came
across fine.

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- Andrew Gray
 andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk