[Wikipedia-l] Tangent on obscene language thread.

Fri Jan 7 17:06:10 UTC 2005

One thing strikes me about this e-mail that makes a part of me say "Oh, 
well, good then" when I see it, which is the author's comment that she 
was unaware that Wikipedia accepted external submissions. Not that I 
think seeing a vandalized article is a good thing, but that... it is 
probably a good thing that she learned what kind of resource Wikipedia 
is and how it works.

So I take this as a sign also that we should probably do more to make 
users aware that they can edit Wikipedia.

-Snowspinner
On Jan 7, 2005, at 9:02 AM, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:

> I am anonymizing this complaint, but I wanted to point it out to
> people and to point out that complaints of this type are increasingly
> common.  As we get more and more popular, vandalism of popular
> articles, though corrected very very quickly, is also seen by more and
> more people.