Vladimir_Nesov comments on How to incentivize LW wiki edits? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 05 December 2012 06:00:29PM *  1 point [-]

If so, not a particularly serious issue, as MediaWiki is GPL2ed (not sure what is the relevance of your remark that each wiki account has a userpage; userpages are not created automatically on registration, at least in the LW wiki configuration).

Comment author: [deleted] 05 December 2012 06:45:23PM *  0 points [-]

I meant that if a userpage was automatically created (I was under the impression that they were, based on this user list and my experience on Wikipedia - feel free to correct me), then it would count as a recent "change" and show up in the recent changes list.

Comment author: gwern 05 December 2012 07:13:44PM 1 point [-]

I don't think they are. I rarely have to delete user pages because most spammers never create a user page. The items in the sidebar with my name seem to refer to me blocking the user accounts.