Wikipediocracy

Comments by Greg, crossposted from elsewhere: I hear from Garfield Byrd, the financial wizard at the Wikimedia Foundation, that the WMF uses the investment services of U.S. Trust . How did their Wikipedia article get so spiffy? Well, there's this social media and strategic marketing consultant name...

This is rich.

It's like two court jesters slapping each other back and forth, while the audience chucks pieces of rotten produce at their heads.

Who wants to bet that Corbett will be unblocked, "retire", and come back in a week?

Speaking of geography stubs, check out this hilarious exchange.

Virtually all of those were auto-generated with a translating bot. No one ever looks at them. Whenever someone runs a cross-WP bot, English Wikipedia's geography coverage becomes biased in that direction. It's even worse with Polish locations. I recall that Blofeld got nailed on many occasions for ...

Lists of populated places in Turkey contains one of two types of monster lists. Either completely empty or completely full . Almost all of the filled in pages are one-line, cookie-cutter stubs like this one . And all created by Dr. Blofeld and Nedim Ardoğa . What is the point of creating a page for...

All of the articles (save for the Occitan one, which is blank anyways) were created in 2011, many in December. My guess is that it was some sort of edit-a-thon.

New York Medical Times (T-H-L)

Hilariously useless. Full of redlinks. Gives no information other than its existence and minor publishing history. First created in 2007, picked at by gnomes over the years. Last edit was Cluebot reverting a vandal in 2012.

Zoloft wrote:If anyone makes this a blog post, please title it 'Wikipedia: Dumb and Dumber.'

Two Commons admins, nefariously planning their next foul deed

Both "sanctioned" by Philippe: linkhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?t ... d=10058489[/link]

Well, let's be fair. This is a nice, not to mention unusually wise, thing for them to have done and they should be commended for it. Sure, there will probably be "deletion reviews" and eventually it might be restored, but until that happens they should be given props for doing the right thing. So, ...

Suppose Mediawiki exploded tomorrow, whether it be from a bad line of code, too many features that clog the servers, or otherwise. And Wikipedia needs a new software, and it needs it fast. Never mind the how. I am well aware that Wikimedia would shove their own software down our throats even if it ...

Randy from Boise wrote:Welcome to WPO, Montoya!

RfB

Thanks!

I don't think either that the line of conflict is 'WMF vs. community', but rather 'superprotect vs. powerless'. There is no free knowledge project without free self-governance by the community. The WMF has done away with our freedom as we knew it. It now behaves in an authoritarian way. I cannot se...

The transcript of that meeting is quite telling as well: [link]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Mobile_contributions/September_2014[/link] [slide 12] User engagement spectrum: Who are we supporting? Lila: this is about web / app? (Maryana:) This i...

As it happens, the current http://wikipediocracy.com/2014/09/21/wikipedia-keeping-it-free-just-pay-us-our-salaries/,WO blog post has some data related to this. Imagine that. I wonder where the original poster of the thread BethNaught , got the idea from? She likes us a bit, I think: User_talk:BethN...