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It's supposed to work because when you post a page you can add your e-mail to a (hidden) list and get a notification when that page is edited.

Oh yeah, and there's also this "vote for deletion" -system... :-)

adok: They log every IP used and they keep the old versions so it's possible to revert to previous versions when someone fucks up.

deetsay:
That's a good solution.

Gargaj:
That's also a possible solution and good in order to stop people from abusing the service several times.

adok: They log every IP used and they keep the old versions so it's possible to revert to previous versions when someone fucks up.

Exactly. You'd have to be pretty subversive and low-under-the-radar to plant incorrect information. If it is non-verifiable or flat-out wrong it will get reversed quickly and easily.

The main problem is rogue dumbfucks who think your articles are "not notable" enough. Since this whole trainwreck has occurred, the existence of various factions have been brought to my attention. Groups such as http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Inclusionist_Wikipedians.

Haha. Can someone please translate this for me? I have a distinct feeling it does not belong on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights/ :)


ACHTUNG!
ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS!
DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKSEN.
DER MASCHINE IST DIGGEN BEI EXPERTEN ONLY!
IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.

Nevermind, it's pretty clear it isn't really German. ;-)

For more information on blinkenlights, see:

www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/blinkenlights.html

radman1: It seems like somebody used a (bad) Babelfish-style translator program to translate some text into German.

RaD Man: Adok seems to be right, but there exist texts like that in some weird German accents which are real.
But otherwise -> ODERWISE is totally fucked up.

Attention!
All tourists and nontechnical look'n'peepers!
The computermachine is not for touching and taking away. Otherwise it's easy to [... I don't really know, maybe "you should run away very fast"]
The machine is [operated] only by experts.
Not for operating by fools. The rubberneck sightseers must keep their cotton picking hands in their pockets.
[Now] relax and watch the blinkenlights.

Wow, that was very hard, it wasn't real German, it wasn't real English, ... maybe dutch, who knows. ;)

before you germans etc take it too seriously:
read this

Inside the German speaking countries, the mastering of the German orthography is considered a sign of a person's intelligence.

Inside the non-German speaking countries, the mastering of the German orthography is considered a sign of a person being a dork.

Mastering Bate also has something to do with dorks.

...

adok, with all sincerity, what kind of a translator would produce words like "gefingerpoken" or "oderwise"?

i'm not judging people with no eye for humour, but in some cases it may cause awkward situations.

Inside the developed countries, consideringy anybody intelligent for a dork is considered primitive.

dont make hasty conclusions, stelthz :P

offtopic: what happend to your lovely heart, stelthz?

At least the delete process is semi-democratic.
Flame wars are funny.
I am a Martian.

It was replaced by an honest and lovely seal, although very difficult to recognize.

*bash*

sometimes when i surf the internet i feel the irresistible urge to call sombody a "cunt".

that's considered to be sexist

hehe.. live is unfair.. isn't it radman :)