[linux-audio-dev] OT: Wikipedia, FM and John Chowning

[Phil Frost]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:04:16PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 04:23 +0100, Esben Stien wrote:
> > Jens M Andreasen <jens.andreasen at chello.se> writes:
> > 
> > > Some of you guys might care to take a brief look
> > 
> > It's so sad that wikipedia has let us down. We are now required to
> > register to add new pages. I hope there will soon be a fork, cause I'm
> > not going there anymore.
> 
> Um, they had a very good reason.  People were using the site to
> anonymously slander others.

Libel, not slander :)

Also, there is the issue of general wiki spam, posting crap,
advertisements, etc.