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

[Elias Friedman]

I still think it highlights a problem with being over reliant on such
outlets as "reliable". My own "original research" has been that
journalists often get the gist right but the details wrong. No
solutions, just pointing it out.

On 4/30/08, 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.
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>
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