2009/7/31 Jay Litwyn <brewh...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>: > I can almost see a whack-a-mole problem happening if we tried to control it, > say by listing IP#s by default on edits to commercial interests. Then they > would just do the suppresion through remote access to their home computer. > http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/ I should check that out. Maybe a link to it > should go on commercial interests.
There's no real reason for us to do much. When the WikiScanner first hit the news, I was surprised how upset the general public and the media were at the idea of companies editing pages related to themselves - they were actually much, much more upset about it than Wikipedia itself is. "Reasons not to edit the page about you: massive PR disaster if you're found out." - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
