"Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.aharoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 2010/8/7 Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx>: >> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 12:56, Amir E. Aharoni >> <amir.aharoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I opened an account on https://git.wiki.kernel.org/ , created a user >>> page and put there a link to my blog. That's always the first thing i >>> do on wikis to which i plan to contribute, because that's the easiest >>> way to tell the world who i am before i start changing pages that >>> other people wrote. >> >> I say this without malice: Nobody really cares who you are. > > And you are quite right, but from several years of experience with > wikis i saw much more misunderstanding coming from editing without > creating a user page than from creating a user page without editing, > so what happened to me today was quite shocking. > > And all the more: if you don't care about user pages, just lock them > for editing. Just adding my 2 cents: I don't think user pages are terribly usefull, but I don't think they harm either. I also have a user page on the wiki with a link to my homepage, and I find this to be a simple and good way to actually identify myself on the wiki. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html