On 6/16/06, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
6/16/06, Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> And what if they've moved an article from the main namespace to their
> userspace? How would you prevent users deleting real articles in this
> way?
Ordinary users can move articles into their
userspace???
Not only that, they can even wipe out entire pages or replace them
with ASCII porn. ;-) Besides page moves, there are other problems,
such as user pages used as collaborative work areas, new methods of
trolling, and a possible incentive to use someone else's wiki as a
temporary scratchpad for just about anything ("I'll just delete it
later").
User pages exist to serve the community and the project, not the
users. As such, I think we should de-emphasize the notion of personal
page ownership, and preserve community review on such pages. Improving
these review and deletion processes, both on the policy and the
technology level, strikes me as a better way to address any currently
existing bottleneck situations.
Erik