[WikiEN-l] Re: A danger of massive homework and research requests

Thu Jan 29 13:01:34 UTC 2004

daniwo59 at aol.com a écrit:
> Wikipedia is becoming a resource. What more can we ask for? I also 
> answered, like this:
>  
> "Here's a hint for your homework:
> Look up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_stream"
>  
> It hardly delayed the expansion of Wikipedia. On the other hand, I do 
> think a place or list for people to ask questions of this kind is a good 
> idea. In fact, it would be helpful to us in finding out where we should 
> focus some of our energies to fill in incomplete articles. We could link 
> to it from the Main Page.

True, but if you set such a list, it has to be open (not member 
restricted)...and then, I really suggest that we set an anti-spam list.

Seriously, during my 2 weeks taking care of the english list, member 
restricted, I had up to 30 mails per day to check.
with several ones per days infested by virus or worms.
We just can't have an open list any more, if a solution to found for
1) limit spam
2) improve security for the recipiendaries