[WikiEN-l] Neo-nazis to attack wikipedia

Mon Feb 7 00:31:36 UTC 2005

Actually I think we can handle this. But let's cross that bridge when we
come to it.

Fred

> From: "JAY JG" <jayjg at hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 19:16:39 -0500
> To: mackensen at gmail.com, wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Neo-nazis to attack wikipedia
> 
>> Stormfront as 43,000 members? That's rather disturbing. However, to be
>> a threat, a sizable number of them would have to be coherent or
>> articulate, else they'll be shot down as garden-variety vandalism.
>> Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if we've blocked stormfront members
>> before, for making racist edits.
> 
> Wikipedia would not be able to handle 43 Vogels.  Even 10 would tax its
> current resources and structure.  If 1 in 4000 is intelligent, coherent, and
> motivated, Wikipedia is in trouble.
> 
> Jay.
> 
> 
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