[PLUG] Re: A wiki for plug

Geoffrey Burling llywrch at agora.rdrop.com
Tue Mar 21 06:16:58 UTC 2006


On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>
> One advantage of MediaWiki is that it seems to have nice features for "recent
> change patrol" people... who can watch for vandalism on their pages of
> interest, and the revert-to-prior versions is almost painless.
>
> Because, that needs to be your number two concern... what to do with vandals.
>
I'm sure we can all think of suitable punishments; the challenge is how 
to track them back to their homes & inflict said punishment. Then there 
is the issue that one man's vandal is another man's free speech hero.
Not that anyone actually believes that line, but it's amazing what some 
people will post & expect to receive a serious response.

No, I'm not speaking from experience.

Geoff




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