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Anonymous edits cause far more harm than good as far as I'm concerned. People who care about Knowledge (XXG) will create accounts so they can edit articles. Just like crime most vandalism on WP is opportunistic. A minimal physical barrier will prevent most crime and similarly a minimal barrier to
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Some liken anonymous editing to the open source philosophy of allowing anyone to modify source code but this turns out to be a false analogy. All but the smallest open source projects restrict "commit" privileges on the source tree to trusted coders - open source is very much a meritocracy. The
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was actually nominated for deletion and the result was "no consensus". Many of the comments claimed the article was spam (for an open source project?) or made comments that since the software was not used on a home PC it did not warrant inclusion in WP. At the very least this is parochialism.
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since January 2022. As of 19 September 2024 the wiki page hasn't been updated yet. Let's see how long it takes for other editors to figure this out. Many other statements on the page are out-of-date, aside from the ones that are outright wrong of course.
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and has been for nearly 30 years. Having said that, I dream of the day when many of today's theoretical concepts in OS design can be rolled out into production. The OSes we have available today are good, but we can do better. In 1995 I founded the
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I tend to edit all over the place. I have a wide range of interests. Outside of computing I'm not a specialist in any area although I am well read in many areas of science and the arts. I have a strong interest in the
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editing (creating an account) will prevent most vandalism. From now on I will comment on the problems with anonymous editing in the edit summary whenever I revert anonymous vandalism.
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I think Knowledge (XXG) is great. I caught the open source bug a long time go so as soon as I saw it I realised the value. Having said this I do feel there are problems:
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It is far too easy to nominate an article for VfD IMHO. Too many articles are being nominated. My position is that deletion should only be used in extreme circumstances.
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Maui is a specialised piece of software. It has as much right to an article as any specialised subject. Much of the encyclopedia is taken up by specialised articles.
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was once nominated for Speedy deletion. People need to stop nominating articles for Speedy deletion just because they don't know anything about the topic.
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I fear there is a rise of some who do not seek consensus. I have recently seen a concerning instance of this:
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as a sworn officer. My time in the police has left me with an interest in, and appreciation of,
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and hateful statements against me (see the page history for details). I'm not actually
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This very page was anonymously vandalised recently. The vandal made a series of
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ability for anyone to edit the source tree comes from the ability to create a
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so the anti-semitic statements were a bit odd, while still being offensive.
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but Knowledge (XXG) is uncredited as the source. I always preferred
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the date, location and circumstances of his death are unknown
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cribbed a line from Knowledge (XXG) and didn't tell anyone
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