From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Amir E. Aharoni" Subject: Re: wiki "abuse" Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 23:00:08 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Witten X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 07 22:00:52 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhpZU-0000sO-T3 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 22:00:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753692Ab0HGUAa convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2010 16:00:30 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com ([209.85.216.181]:57780 "EHLO mail-qy0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753404Ab0HGUA3 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Aug 2010 16:00:29 -0400 Received: by qyk7 with SMTP id 7so5044636qyk.19 for ; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.62.5 with SMTP id v5mr8823765vch.244.1281211228159; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.193.2 with HTTP; Sat, 7 Aug 2010 13:00:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 2010/8/7 Michael Witten : > On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 12:56, Amir E. Aharoni > wrote: >> 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 easies= t >> 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. --=20 =D7=90=D6=B8=D7=9E=D6=B4=D7=99=D7=A8 =D7=90=D6=B1=D7=9C=D6=B4=D7=99=D7=A9= =D7=81=D6=B8=D7=A2 =D7=90=D6=B7=D7=94=D6=B2=D7=A8=D7=95=D6=B9=D7=A0=D6=B4= =D7=99 Amir Elisha Aharoni http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, =C2=A0I want to live in peace." - T. Moore