On 4/19/06, BorgHunter
<borghunter.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
maru dubshinki wrote:
We shouldn't examine that data, however. Very
bad precedent, and poor
for privacy, especially since we aren't dealing with out-and-out
vandals here, but merely critics.
But should critics of Wikipedia be admins of Wikipedia? I don't believe
so. However, I suppose it's up to Jimbo and the Board if they want to
expend the energy to look into it. As for privacy...it's not against the
privacy policy, and besides which, I'm not sure that's an invasion of
privacy anyway. You're sending data to the Wikimedia servers every time
you visit a page, and that info is logged, and you (should) know that. I
have no problems with the devs looking through page access logs, myself.
We should be the critics of Wikipedia! I mean, admins make up by far
the majority of the group of the most
qualified-to-criticize-Wikipedia. Your average admin knows far more
about Wikipedia than just about everyone except the rare various
Wales, Sanger, Foundation member/employees, and developers, and
certainly more than your average current critic like Brandt or the
various reporters we keep reading.
A sample conversation a little while ago at work:
Boss: "Wikipedia scares me."
AG: "It scares the *hell* out of me"
This seems to be a broadly held opinion among admins...
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk