So it isn't the software but the settings they're using? There is no way to read the contents of that deleted article.
If a paragraph has been removed in an article, I can still read it in the history. Even put it back, without even having an account. Wikipedia were the folks who dared to do that!
And yet they have this inconsistent policy of article removal, controlled by an elite who are the only ones who can touch it. It's just weird.
The whole debate is caused - IMHO - by having a bad versioning system as the Wikipedia's backend. Deleting and undeleting whole articles should be as transparent and open as deleting and undeleting paragraphs within an article. The history feature provides such transparency. Currently, instead, deleted articles are zapped: inaccesible, unreadable, unrecoverable. Allowing history access (and an option in "advanced search") for deleted articles would make this issue a lot simpler.
> Look at it. Not only is it extremely provocative from the average > persons TV-level awareness of bomb gadgetry, but personally with a EE > background I'd be even more alarmed by it's context.
Not the person behind the airline counter nor the airport police are average TV-level persons: all are airport personnel who have been trained in security, specialy after 9/11.
For me the funny thing here is that it wasn't anybody in the general public who got alarmed or scared. There was nothing scary about a girl wearing a shirt with some homemade blinking LEDS. Instead, those who overreacted are the ones with the supposed training plus the experience of working in an airport every day.
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Hey, I found an old mbox with samples of Agora usage, it looked like this:
Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 23:28:24 +0500
From: agora@www10.w3.org
Subject: Document requested (was: no subject (file transmission)) (URL: http://www.med.harvard.edu/programs/.index.html)
To get help, just send a mail with the body WWW
Please mail to agora-bug@mail.w3.org if you have a problem
Harvard Medical Area Institutions, Programs and
Departments
Harvard School of Public Health[1]
Department of Biostatistics[2]
Harvard Medical School and Affiliated Hospitals[3]
Harvard Biophysics Program[4]
[...]
So it isn't the software but the settings they're using? There is no way to read the contents of that deleted article.
If a paragraph has been removed in an article, I can still read it in the history. Even put it back, without even having an account. Wikipedia were the folks who dared to do that!
And yet they have this inconsistent policy of article removal, controlled by an elite who are the only ones who can touch it. It's just weird.
The whole debate is caused - IMHO - by having a bad versioning system as the Wikipedia's backend. Deleting and undeleting whole articles should be as transparent and open as deleting and undeleting paragraphs within an article. The history feature provides such transparency. Currently, instead, deleted articles are zapped: inaccesible, unreadable, unrecoverable. Allowing history access (and an option in "advanced search") for deleted articles would make this issue a lot simpler.
> Look at it. Not only is it extremely provocative from the average
> persons TV-level awareness of bomb gadgetry, but personally with a EE
> background I'd be even more alarmed by it's context.
Not the person behind the airline counter nor the airport police are average TV-level persons: all are airport personnel who have been trained in security, specialy after 9/11.
For me the funny thing here is that it wasn't anybody in the general public who got alarmed or scared. There was nothing scary about a girl wearing a shirt with some homemade blinking LEDS. Instead, those who overreacted are the ones with the supposed training plus the experience of working in an airport every day.