[WikiEN-l] Break

Sat Sep 20 21:17:56 UTC 2003

--- K Forstner <kurt.forstner at chello.at> wrote:
> Wikipedia actually forces me to take an indefinite
> break until the whole
> thing is running properly again. A couple of days
> ago, I wikified a long
> page and for once forgot to copy it before pressing
> the "save" button.
> Needless to say, the whole thing was lost
> irrevocably before I had realized
> my mistake. Yesterday I was careless again and added
> five titles to
> Kingturtle's reading list -- lost forever. Now I
> just wanted to update a
> page -- impossible.
> 
> I'm still amazed that this is not being discussed.
> Instead, I am inundated
> by e-mails about bots, most of which are just copies
> of old e-mails with one
> sentence added at the bottom. I don't understand
> participants' priorities
> here.
> 
The issue of the bots has been resolved, I think.
Steve seems to have stopped arguing, so I think it's
OK to go ahead with the bot.
>
> I have been used to having a look at Wikipedia first
> thing whenever I sit
> down at my  computer. I guess I'll keep doing so and
> occasionally try to
> edit an article, but since all good features
> (watchlist, search function
> etc.) are more or less gone and as it now usually
> takes one minute or so to
> get from the edit history back to the article I
> don't think I'll be able to
> contribute a lot. This is just too frustrating.
> 
> Whatever happened to the "new server madness"?
> 
> KF

Funny, I haven't been experiencing any of those
problems.
LDan

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