Wiki Index was Re: Wiki editors

Thu Jul 17 21:43:39 CEST 2008

Stroller wrote:
> The purpose of user pages is generally for users to tell readers 
> about themselves.
>> "Hi, my name is Bob and I've been an Openmoko user for 2 years. I 
> have a PHd in technical writing and I enjoy contributing to the wiki 
> in my spare time."
>> Just look at some of the Wikipedia user pages for fuller examples - 
> there they often display "awards" for number of edits made, the 
> user's country of origin (even countries they've travelled to!) 
> spheres of wiki interest and probably even hobbies!
>> It is right and logical that user pages shouldn't be indexed.
>> It is wrong (and "illogical") that zedlock should be listed only on 
> Quicksand's user page - it should have a proper page to itself.

Definitely agreed.
> although I have to admit to being reluctant myself to edit 
> someone else's userpage!!.

Same here, as that's the one area of a public wiki that I still feel 
someone else has "ownership" of; rare exceptions include 
objectionable/inappropriate content/spam. However, I should think it 
would not be out of line to copy the content to it's own page, and then 
place a short message/link on the user's page to the new location.
-- 
John Reese
LeetCode.net