On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
2008/4/30 Chris Howie cdhowie@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. :)