[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is ... free web hosting?

[David Goodman]

I think any joke about a cabal is a disaster, and an example of trying to
inappropriate defuse what is a serious concern. This is all the more true
when the people involved are important enough to be part of a real cabal if
there were one. Come to think of it, I haven't seen any low-status editors
making jokes about cabals. i wonder why.

On Jan 30, 2008 3:13 PM, Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com> wrote:

> So, as far as you're concerned I can setup some joke page entirely
> unrelated to Wikipedia on Wikipedia. Redirect a domain name to it. Use
> CSS hacks to overwrite the user interface. .. and keep it protected to
> prevent unapproved people from modifying my website.   Did I get that
> right?
>
> First off, I didn't know it was protected. That is inappropriate, and
> makes
> no sense.
>
> But the Bathrobe Cabal isn't just a joke page. It's a humorous page that
> is
> a community building tool for admins and a resource for non-admins to find
> help from a friendly and knowledgeable set of sysops, which is far useful
> than a lot of the off-topic userpage stuff that gets let alone. I do not
> understand that logic of attacking an obviously useful page just because
> someone has bought and redirected an outside domain to it. It's more than
> just "no harm done". There is a palpable benefit to the page.
>
> On Jan 30, 2008 11:36 AM, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > Peter Ansell wrote:
> > > If they leave because a userspace page, which was not promoting
> > > collaboration on wikipedia articles, was deleted then they were *not
> > > valuable* to the encyclopedia.
> >
> > That seems like an extremely petty criterion of "value." Have you
> > checked the contributions lists of the Bathrobe Cabal members? If all
> > they do is work on the Bathrobe Cabal page, sure, no big loss. But
> > considering they have to run the gauntlet of RfA to join the Bathrobe
> > Cabal that seems unlikely. Almost by definition they've had to
> > contribute a lot of valuable work to Wikipedia to get there.
> >
> > > It could however be affected if others figure out that admins aren't
> > > consistent and chuck a fuss because their Userspace pages were deleted
> > > for the same reason that page was kept in a shortened discussion.
> >
> > We could leave all harmless user subpages like this one alone,
> > admin-created or not. That would be a consistent approach.
> >
> >
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David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
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