Today's "Now I Know" by Dan Lewis discusses copyright and involves several links to Wikipedia.
http://dlewis.net/nik-archives/no-copying-grandma/ Sent from my Droid2 Elias Friedman A.S., CCEMT-P אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי [email protected] On Jan 18, 2012 5:58 AM, "Carcharoth" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Jeraphine Gryphon <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Wikipedia should do these complete edit locks more often, TBH. For the > > sake of Wikipediholics like me, and so admins can catch up with > > reports and backlogs in peace. > > Point of order. This is not an edit-lock. You are thinking from the > perspective of an editor. This is a reader lock-out as well (though > really, those that know enough to use mirrors or caches or disable > javascript are not missing out on reading articles, and that may get > mis-reported in the press as those in the know not being > inconvenienced but everyone else being locked out from reading > Wikipedia). > > > Not sure if it's a serious suggestion but it's just a thought I had. > > It's a nice idea, but there are several problems with that. Firstly, > how to handle urgent edits that still need to be made. Secondly, how > to restrict editing disablement to just article namespace (which is > what would be needed to allow other stuff to carry on as normal). I > don't think it would ever really happen. > > Carcharoth > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
