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[abigailbrady]

back home now. will write long update tomorrow. briefly -

• wearing steel toe-cap boots through metal detectors is a bad idea
• apfelwein (frankfurt/hesse cider) is bitter but palatable. for some reason, it is offered diluted as well as neat. when i drank some at the funfair i was mocked as if they could not believe a foreigner would have neat apfelwein. this would make sense except it tastes quite weak.
• some wikipedians aren't geeks!
• a crazy man wants to start up sign language wikipedias, featuring video footage of people signing articles. this i think will be very interesting to edit!
• tlh.wikipedia.org has a limited life expectancy
• richard stallman is still mad
• i should make openid support for mediawiki
• jimbo can dance.

yawn

Comments

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

a) don't quite follow you

b) apparently 5.5 to 7% according to wikipedia article about it

c) yeah. it was a public board meeting thingy Q&A session, someone asked about fictional languages and Jimbo was talking about how yeah, klingon was indefensible and actually why didn't they just delete it now, and there was general agreement. and asked brion to. who then locked it. using his wi-fi. :)

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

a) I don't see any difference between this and having user accounts. OpenID is just a technical system to make sure that you only have to sign in to one website, and it can then vouch to you for others.

c) I would ignore anything that Mark Williamson says.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but we can still ban them and IP check them and suchforth. It may even be possible to allow people to have local display names in the User: namespace.