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[morwen]

back home now. will write long update tomorrow. briefly -

• wearing steel toe-cap boots through metal detectors is a bad idea
• apfelwein (frankfurt/hesse cider) is bitter but palatable. for some reason, it is offered diluted as well as neat. when i drank some at the funfair i was mocked as if they could not believe a foreigner would have neat apfelwein. this would make sense except it tastes quite weak.
• some wikipedians aren't geeks!
• a crazy man wants to start up sign language wikipedias, featuring video footage of people signing articles. this i think will be very interesting to edit!
• tlh.wikipedia.org has a limited life expectancy
• richard stallman is still mad
• i should make openid support for mediawiki
• jimbo can dance.

yawn

Comments

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

If you added OpenID support someone with a small penis would just ban them all for vandalism.

How strong (alcohol wise)is apfelwein?

What actually happened with klingon? Jimbo said in public "Brion lock it" and he did?

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

a) don't quite follow you

b) apparently 5.5 to 7% according to wikipedia article about it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apfelwein)

c) yeah. it was a public board meeting thingy Q&A session, someone asked about fictional languages and Jimbo was talking about how yeah, klingon was indefensible and actually why didn't they just delete it now, and there was general agreement. and asked brion to. who then locked it. using his wi-fi. :)

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

a) People ban whole country's schools. Some people like having their modicum of power. If you allowed people to login to Wikipedia using an OpenID then they would be watched to see if they brought the dreaded vandalism with them. I would expect people to be talking about banning OpenIDs within the week.

b) Obvious answer!

c) When I left Wikipedia there was one email list I couldn't unsubscribe from. When I tried to unsubscribe it told me I wasn't subscribed - yet it still sends me messages. It's Wikipeida-l which disintegrates into discussions on whether there is such a thing as Low German when most of the participants don't speak it anyway.

Jimbo behaved undemocratically and with an eye for the audience seems to be one of the whinges.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

a) I don't see any difference between this and having user accounts. OpenID is just a technical system to make sure that you only have to sign in to one website, and it can then vouch to you for others.

c) I would ignore anything that Mark Williamson says.

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

a) But they won't be "our" user accounts. I accept that some people may minorly be getting on my tits which may have caused an over reaction on this point ;)

c) Granted.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but we can still ban them and IP check them and suchforth. It may even be possible to allow people to have local display names in the User: namespace.