I guess what I suggest is that we thank them for whatever data they collect
and use it to correct any problems they find to the extent we can without
disrupting the Wiki mechanism. If Wikipedia can stand amateur editors it can
stand amateur researchers, especially if we welcome whatever they discover.
Good ideas have already come out of these researches.
Fred
From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab(a)gmail.com>om>, English Wikipedia
<wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 00:15:31 +0200
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Another troll "testing" Wikipedia
The harm is that everyone and their brother is trying to be a smart
ass by posting these "researches" and "investigations into the
effectiveness of the wiki system" on their stupid blogs and its
turning into some lame trend of late.