Re: [MLUG] Re: Wikipedia on /.

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 EMAIL:PROTECTED wrote:

> Mike Miller wrote:
>
>> So, the world's greatest expert could write an article on some topic, 
>> then anybody could go in and change what the guy had written.
>
> And then the world's greatest expert (or some kind WikiGnome) could go 
> in and restore the previous version from version control, and restoring 
> what was originally written.
>
> The effort to remove the detritus of a WikiVandal is trivial in most 
> wikis.

That's good, but the detritus has to be detected, the wiki owner has to be 
alerted, then he has to decide if he should act, how far back the damage 
occurred, then he can do the trivial fix.  Between the time of the 
vandalism and the time the page is fixed, the page may be read and the 
reader may be misled.  Of course, the vandal may return, every few days, 
to make sure the damage, if fixed, is repeated.  And the world's greatest 
expert might not wish to spend his time checking intermitently that his 
web page wasn't defaced, so he might not contribute to Wikipedia in the 
first place.


> There is plenty of discussion on this in the links from my previous 
> post.

That was a very helpful post.  Thanks.

Mike
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