On Sunday 19 January 2003 04:00 am, wikitech-l-request(a)wikipedia.org wrote:
As a conclusion
1. I can't do any revert back, or it will lose the new
stuff
2. I lost my time yesterday
3. I can't edit that page again, without breaking
things up, or making some stuff disappear. In other
words, either I am a vandal (if I edit) or I am
censored (If I don't)
4. What I did was utterly misconsidered, and abused by
Mav, who didnot even "try" to understand why I was
doing it.
So, I am very upset
I am sorry that I made you upset, but I looked at the diffs - all that was
done was breaking off a couple of proposals onto separate pages. Was there
other editing that you did? If there was I didn't see it.
The revert was needed due to the fact that your browser (I know it wasn't you
on purpose) inserted HUGE amounts of whitespace inbetween each and every
line. See the revert diff here
http://meta.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=What_to_do_with_www.wikipedia.…
notice all the extra spacing that was deleted and also the two proposals that
were pasted back-in.
I would have done what I normally do in these cases and perform version
management but the proposals you moved were still very relevant to the
current discussion. It will take only a few minutes to delete these proposals
and provide links to the new pages you created.
So even though I still don't think it is such a good idea, I've already done
this. Now look at this diff
http://meta.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=What_to_do_with_www.wikipedia.…
the only difference between your last version and the newest one is all the
white space placed into your version.
--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)