[WikiEN-l] Re: April 1st 2006, IRC, the mailing list, and the Cabal

Sun Apr 3 00:02:12 UTC 2005

That's actually a good idea.  And we may as well make it read-only for
anons all the time; they often have no intention of cleaning up after
themselves.  Think of the massive effort that goes into monitoring
their edits -- just for the sake of 'community' -- that could go into
writing quality articles.   --sj--

On Apr 2, 2005 11:24 AM, Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> Next year we should switch the wiki to read-only mode for 48 hours and
> take the opportunity to clean up the database schema a bit. Remember
> it's not just admins messing with articles, there's plenty of anonymous
> users too, and not all of them are careful to clean up the next day.

ps - I hear there are five very powerful Japanese-built multi-lingual
Internet-crawling robots now out of business since the upgrade to the
new "self-cleaning" Internet v2... maybe we can hire them.