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== What was Wards last edit in C2? == | == What was Wards last edit in C2? == | ||
''I'm not sure how you're determining "his last edit", because there have certainly been signed edits by Ward since 2005. See, for example (which I found by taking random stab at the History), http://c2.com/wiki/history/WikiWikiSystemNotice/893 which dates from June 10, 2010. (See http://c2.com/wiki/history/WikiWikiSystemNotice/ for dates.) That trivially refutes your assertion. There are newer edits which may either have been signed and subsequently deleted as the content was refactored, or which were unsigned, and I'm sure others can be found in the History. Also, in keeping with the trend toward unsigned edits since roughly 2005, Ward didn't always sign his contributions.'' 12:18, 26 January 2015 195.194.178.189 (Talk) (moved here from document page by Manorainjan) | |||
* This is rather a good example of Ward '''not''' editing his wiki. | |||
As one can see on [http://c2.com/wiki/history/WikiWikiSystemNotice/ the list of the history pages of the system notice board] of [[WikiWikiWeb]] on 11th May 2010 appearing on history page [http://c2.com/wiki/history/WikiWikiSystemNotice/880 880] one askes about the outage at 10th of May. They did not get any answer from Ward until a whole month later on [http://c2.com/wiki/history/WikiWikiSystemNotice/893 893] 10th of June 2010: | |||
<blockquote> | |||
We've had two unrelated server problems that have lead to the service interruptions noted above. | |||
The operating system failed due to high process load caused by search engine bots getting caught up in old slow scripts that were not properly listed in robots.txt. Unfortunately some mis-communication with the co-location facility led to a reboot begin delayed until the following Monday morning. | |||
QuickDiff was one of several scripts that were removed until a recently exploited vulnerability could be corrected. (I did so this morning.) I apologize for letting this chore drag on for so long and for not posting situation updates here promptly. | |||
As always, I appreciate this community's willingness to carry on with the quirks of this historic, but aging site. -- WardCunningham | |||
</blockquote> | |||
This proves three things: | |||
* Ward is responding to serious technical problems whenever the server is affected which is the same server his business homepage is hosted on. | |||
* He is likely to neglect the questions of the so called community about matters serious to them for quite a while. | |||
* He regarded this wiki to be 'historic' and 'ageing' defining it as a matter of the past from his perspective. | |||
Therefore he did not contribute to this wiki any more. He only kept it up and running from a purely technical perspective of the one who has back-end access and the one who can remove scripts that proved causing server-problems. | |||
In other words: Ward was forced to cripple the wiki by cutting off some scripts in order to secure the safe operation of the server his own business site was hosted on. He did not care to notify the public or the people assuming themselves to be the community of this antique wiki any further for about a month until obviously some people pestered him to say something. Then he did nothing until late 2014 when Dave Voorhis pestered him again via facebook. So he got fed up and finally locked down the wiki to ensure his own peace. [[User:Manorainjan|Manorainjan]] ([[User talk:Manorainjan|talk]]) 13:54, 26 January 2015 (UTC) | |||