[hackerspaces] Deleting Wikipages

[Yves Quemener]

I think that as long as a page is not an obvious spaming and as long as
there are not dozens of places per city, it is useful to have a list of
groups, however small they are, that one can meet.

nicolle wrote:
> i am the one who started going through and deleting pages.  i don't know
> if anyone else did, but i know at least the vast majority of it (and
> quite probably all of it) was me.
> 
> i didn't mean anything malicious by deleting the pages, and didn't mean
> to make anyone mad.  however, i was under the impression that this was
> supposed to be a directory of hackerspaces, and not necessarily a
> directory for any and all hacker clubs, meetings, or places hackers
> happen to congregate.  i didn't mean to trivialise the importance of
> hacker clubs that weren't permanent spaces, but i found (and knew others
> who found) that the overbroadness of the "list of hackerspaces"
> detracted from the more specific mission of hackerspaces.org.
> 
> nicolle
> 
> 
> 
> Caspar Clemens Mierau wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 05:03:04PM +0100, Jonas Lerch wrote:
>>  
>>> I am still not able to wrap my head around how a hacker could come to
>>> the point that the deletion of a groups wikipage might be a good idea...
>>>     
>>
>> Maybe let's just keep calm on this: Somebody wanted to help out and to
>> clean up. He was maybe wrong doing so, but I guess nobody wants to
>> declassify efforts. So: Doing might result in doing wrong, but it is
>> fine somebody took the time, to do something. The ongoing clarification
>> might be enough for future.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> ccm.
>>
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