Re: wiki "abuse"

"Amir E. Aharoni" [off-list ref] writes:

2010/8/7 Michael Witten [off-list ref]:

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On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 12:56, Amir E. Aharoni
[off-list ref] wrote:

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I opened an account on https://git.wiki.kernel.org/ , created a user
page and put there a link to my blog. That's always the first thing i
do on wikis to which i plan to contribute, because that's the easiest
way to tell the world who i am before i start changing pages that
other people wrote.

I say this without malice: Nobody really cares who you are.

And you are quite right, but from several years of experience with
wikis i saw much more misunderstanding coming from editing without
creating a user page than from creating a user page without editing,
so what happened to me today was quite shocking.

And all the more: if you don't care about user pages, just lock them
for editing.

Just adding my 2 cents: I don't think user pages are terribly usefull,
but I don't think they harm either. I also have a user page on the
wiki with a link to my homepage, and I find this to be a simple and
good way to actually identify myself on the wiki.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/