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Secret Mailing List Rocks Wikipedia
privatemusings writes "Wikipedians are up in arms at the revelations that respected administrators have been discussing blocking and banning editors on a secret mailing list. The tensions have spilled over throughout the 'encyclopedia anyone can edit' and news agencies are sniffing around. The Register has this fantastic writeup — read it here first." The article says that some Wikipedians believe Jimbo Wales has lost face by supporting the in-crowd of administrators and rebuking the whistle blower who leaked the existence of the secret mailing list.
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> rely on the sensible majority policing a malicious minority on an equal footing by weight of numbers
Yeah. Hitler did have some pretty good ideas for dealing with those pesky jews and homosexuals, didn't he ?
The problem with that aproach is that it intrinsically creates another hierarchy: the self-declared 'moral majority' (now where have we heard that one before) versus the 'socially unadapted'.
At which point does a minority view switch from 'abnormal and wrong' to 'unsual, but valid' ? Ten people ? A hundred ? A thousand ?
What a depressingly stupid machine.
""Wikipedians are up in arms at the revelations that respected administrators have been discussing blocking and banning editors on a secret mailing list."
WTF?? Is this Junior High or something??
What a bunch of whiney faggots
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Even if it is open, I don't want my email laying around in the net just because I mentioned it in a chat.
Yes there are.
And no, it doesn't keep people from discussing it.
One thing is quoting and an entirely different one is posting a log of an irc chat
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Why not avoid public channels altogether while we're at it
So let's allow/'legalize' posting entire logs of irc chats because somebody has probably done it already.
Let's make their work easier.
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