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

[Chris Howie]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, but I'm a technical person.  Technical mistakes bug the crap out of me.  :)

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Chris Howie
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