[WikiEN-l] Re: WikiEN-lWikiEN-lWikiEN-lWikiEN-lWikiEN-l

Wed Oct 22 00:44:09 UTC 2003

Message: 6
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:17:52 -0700
From: Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] ALERT: Idea for new feature:
"Who's watching
	this	page?"
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Message-ID: <3F95BEA0.7080708 at telus.net>
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Audin Malmin wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 06:02:22PM -0700, Daniel
Ehrenberg wrote:
>
>>OK, but the default preference should be to keep it
>>private by default, and the new feature would mainly
>>be used just to see how many people are watching it.
>>
>
>	I disagree.  That default will make the feature
useless.  Make the
>default Public and place a good notice on the edit
page next to the 
watchlist
>chechbox.
>
>	Why is making a watchlist public any worse than ones
contributions?
>

The proposal to watch who's watching which page is the
kind of thing 
that's worthy of an aspiring KGB or CIA agent.  The
potential for 
mischief is too high.  I want to be on the record as
absolutely against 
it.

Ec

Bonjour Ec

Envisagerais tu de bien vouloir ecrire a la liste de
discussion appropriée pour tous les sujets relevant de
l'aspect international du projet que nous partageons
tous ?

Merci Ec

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