If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I am a user of a fairly large enterprise wiki based on MediaWiki. Recently, a colleague and I were discussing the merits of introducing a graphical editor to our wiki. There are not many options, and the best of these [...]
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May 8th, 2009
In defense of Wikipedia admins and rules [reconsideration]
I initially started mrmerlot.com to rant about injustices I felt I had received trying to edit articles on Wikipedia (see here and here). This was, in fact, only the catalyst as I’d intended to start a technology-related musings site for quite some time.
However, today’s Dilbert post makes a point about why careful tending of the [...]
April 27th, 2009
Banned from Wikipedia: The Aftermath [reconsideration]
As a follow-up to the first post here at mrmerlot.com, I thought I’d post some additional observations about my experiences with the Wikipedia “admin” community and a “rebel underground” that I learned is moving against the cynical majority. Perhaps there is hope yet for Wikipedia.
Not one to back down from a confrontation, I continued to [...]
