[WikiEN-l] Policy on putting email addresses on wiki pages

Tue Jan 31 12:36:17 UTC 2006

Tom Steinberg wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> We've been mulling dumping all the Northern Ireland Assembly member's
> email addresses onto the relevent page on wikipedia, and then writing
> a scraper script to keep our own WriteToThem systems up to date.
> 
> This raises a policy question:
> 
> Is it permissable to put email addresses on wikipedia, if they're
> already public?
> 
> We've noticed that they're *not* featured for most MPs.
> 

Please consider the amount of spam that they would receive from
address-scraping scripts that are running around, and the fact that
Wikipedia is one of the 20 most visited sites on the internet...

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