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Re: Fixing wiki performance by purging non-editing wiki users.


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.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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