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Re: Fixing wiki performance by purging non-editing wiki users.
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, "Roland McGrath" <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim at kugelworks dot com>, "Ryan S. Arnold" <ryan dot arnold at linaro dot org>, Konstantin Serebryany <kcc at google dot com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 17:27:07 +0000
- Subject: Re: Fixing wiki performance by purging non-editing wiki users.
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On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Hi -
>
> jsm wrote:
>
> > I'd like to see meaningful attribution for non-spam edits. [...]
>
> You're assumption that such attribution necessarily exists is
> erroneous. Those edits occurred before the trusted-editor
> restrictions were activated, so the wiki was world-writeable.
I mean whatever identification (user name) the editor chose for themselves
as the way to identify their contributions, with the legitimate
expectation that the contributions would remain attributed to that name.
I see no reason to suspect anyone of using a misleading attribution for a
non-spam edit.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com