Wikipediocracy

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1. There are powerful individuals who can influence the course of history. No, it's all random: being "in the right place at the right time". 2. Decentralised forms of organisation are always preferable to versus centralised ones. depends on what is being organised. However, whatever happens natural...

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What's funny is that MSJ/somey and GB/Gomi have been completely overtaken by what has been done here. The rationalisation and over-simplification is coming hard and heavy here. You guys have lost. I think that probably this is more serious for MsJ/Somey, since he's been doing this for a living....bu...

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Oh well that's trashed pretty much the whole of a book which took nearly two years to research and write. You should have mentioned that earlier. Ignore all of that. MSJ has never really understood Wikipedia. You're on exactly the right track, which is why I decided not even to start. Your book wil...

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This should be the theme song for this site!

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Does no one remember this? Quietly started by Wikiproject Oregon leader and WMF insider Pete Forsyth, who has repeatedly bragged about his company dedicated to making Wikipedia pay, Wikistrategies . In August 2012, Forsyth and partner, University of Mississippi professor Bob Cummings, received $140...

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Prolly because that nice Pete Forsyth told her all about his BFF Davie. Other interesting cases: Andreas, the "black metal librarian" . Adrianne and her cleavage Gideon (Father of Eight) And our favorite poster boy, http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Thank_You/Jimmy_Wales,Jimbo himself! (Among othe...

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Lots of LOLZ are to be had here : http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Thank_You_All

My favorite (of course) : http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Tha ... _Shankbone

You don't even have to say anything. The parody speaks for itself. (Next time, why not wear long pants, Davie?)

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What I want to know is : who is Crisco 1492?

If this isn't a Benjiboi sock, I'll eat my hat!

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The polls be damned: you definitely need to write a detailed article about this character.

Of course, you will.

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Well, we now know when it is appropriate to use the term "fucking idiot on WP"! Think of all of the disputes that have been resolved!

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TungstenCarbide wrote:
oscarlechien wrote:There's only one thing to do here: bring out the heavy artillery!
Haha, you forgot the EMF shielding!

It's a "tin-foil hat" for your junk! Surely the "Wikipediot in the know" needs one of these (at least!) for Christmas!

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There's only one thing to do here: bring out the heavy artillery!

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Tarc is always "right". I should have thought that this was obvious by now!

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Where have you people been?

This is hardly news and, quite frankly, I can't believe that anyone would actually be surprised because of anything concerning a PR scandale. The horse has been out of the barn for YEARS now...

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He just learned to play the game. As with all of the others, he'll eventually get his due through the usual process of "Wiki Evolution".

WHO is at fault doesn't matter. They all suffer the same fate in the end. It's part of the way the game is played;

Prove me wrong.

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...the silence is deafening here.

Am I wrong? Make your case and prove that I'm another "tin foil hat" brigade person.

I am 100% convinced that I'm right. These people are going to go down through internal conflicts.

Prove me wrong! Fight my ideas, damn it!

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Let 'em fight it out. Don't react. Let the evolutionary warfare take place. The more I think about this, the more I think that either 1. this situation will fix itself because of the ridiculous way the people who run Wikipedia are handling these sort of things. or 2. humanity will lose all sense of ...

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...of couse, to understand what they're going on about, you have to speak French:

http://www.franceinter.fr/emission-toil ... -wikipedia

(and more than it takes to read Paris Match, "Barbe Grise"...

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Students should report the professor to their University ethics committee for ethics violations. Anyone who require anyone to edit Wikipedia for course credit should be reported, on any number of levels. You would think that even the most entrenched Wikipedia Kult members would be in agreement with ...

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Guys can you stop this. I'm trying to write a book about the mess that is Wikipedia, and every book needs to have an ending. Why do you keep on adding more to the mess? WHY do you think that I gave on the idea of ever writing anything definitive about Wikipedia? There is not way to ever get to the ...

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Definitely!

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UAE be damned, at least it's not Quatar, who seem to have purchased all of France!

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Why don't you do so here, if you're so keen on being "out" and all?

The point being, of course", "que l'exception prouve la règle..."

which it doesn't, of course...but that's for you to prove.

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Also from my notes : this blog post from Naoko Komura , the WMF program manager heading up the Wikipedia Usability Initiative, funded by the Stanton Foundation... ...there was quite a discussion of this issue on WR , if I remember correctly... Also, the Ruth and Frank Stanton Fund changed its name t...

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Lilburne/TDA, could this develop into a blog post? It looks to me like you might have the beginnings of one there. You'd need far more research capability then I suspect either of us could generate. Also it would tend to end up looking like some weird New World Order RAND conspiracy nonsense. Short...

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...which means having to enter the data once again....losing the immediacy of the actual experience. As a musicologist, I know that this almost always entailes loss of the original experience. I own the copyright to my own contributions on WR. I would be happy to release them as a searchable ressour...

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It looks as if their mascot could be easily morphed into "Pedobear" for "great lolz"... (not that I'm suggesting that anybody does this....) Obviously WP has a great interest in protecting the Interwebz. What I'd like to know whether they have an interest in protecting civilization as we know it ......

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that link doesn't resolve to either "Stanton" or "Sloan". What is the connection to the Stanton fund, here?

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Yes, but that history has already been gone over. We're repeating ourselves here. The intial press release for the Stanton fund grant listed the Sloan foundation incorrectly. This is old news. We've already gone over this material. When are we going to get the datadump so that this material can be ...

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Yes, but that history has already been gone over. We're repeating ourselves here. The intial press release for the Stanton fund grant listed the Sloan foundation incorrectly. This is old news. We've already gone over this material. When are we going to get the datadump so that this material can be s...

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Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath : This is a famous photo of a victim of Minamata disease, which was taken to draw attention to this issue and the real human drama that this condition created. Twenty years after the death of Tomoko Uemura, the family decided that they wanted to withdraw the image from cir...

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Yes, it is indeed the "Stanton fund", which was originally refered to as the "Sloan foundation" for some reason and which has been known for several years. ...I really wish that this material which has already been collected (and which is no longer under our control, even though it is under our copy...

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He is/was a deputy "cadet" in training when he was a high school student. At his second RfA, concerns where raised that he was trying to pose as a law officer....He should not be allowed to have any positions of power, as he's obviously has a "law and order complex". Bad news all around here!

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WE ARE NOT THE FAETHFUL!

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It seems that there will be a Wikipedia picnic on June 23rd in various places. For example, in Pittsburgh : Schenley Plaza, 4100 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA (the green next to the Cathedral of Learning, between Hillman Library and the Carnegie Library) Should there be a Wikipediocrary presence at...

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What's the problem with taking a picnic to a public park, with a name tag saying "Hi I'm Oscarlechien on Wikipediocrary"?

Is eating your lunch in a public park suddenly against the law?

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It seems that there will be a Wikipedia picnic on June 23rd in various places. For example, in Pittsburgh : Schenley Plaza, 4100 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA (the green next to the Cathedral of Learning, between Hillman Library and the Carnegie Library) Should there be a Wikipediocrary presence at ...

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What's funny about this is that "Aussiebum" is "prestige underwear" for Gay men. I believe you, but still find it a bit bizarre. It doesn't look like "prestige" anything, more like children's underwear. Garish and tasteless. It's quite simple: he bought these on sale . ..which makes this all rather...

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(Who the heck has adverts in their underwear?) I don't know... maybe the chair of Wikimedia UK had a pay-per-click deal with Ottawa? What's funny about this is that "Aussiebum" is "prestige underwear" for Gay men. I suppose that when you go out to the clubs, you can pull your pants down or somethin...

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EricBarbour wrote:I'd ask him why the WMF isn't there, and remind him that Wikipedia is now the world's most popular place to plagiarise school papers.
But my browser won't let me post a comment for some reason. I will email him.

Done.

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All I can say is "Amen". I've been saying this for years: the "Free Culture" movement is the biggest enemy the individual artist has. If you like it enough to listen it to more than once/read the whole book/look at it more than once, please pay for it so that the person who created it can live. It's...

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FWIW, I don't think that Wnt is going to have a very long career on EN:WP. Read this warning on his talkpage. Note this remark by an Arb : :::: BTW, it's Feyd Huxtable, not Fred. Don't know if he's the sort to get pissed off if you get his name wrong. --[[User:Elen of the Roads|Elen of the Roads]] (...

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Vigilant wrote:Who the hell is this guy?
He can't be serious. It must be a troll.

This is just a hunch....but I can't stop myself from wondering if this guy might not be a sock of Benjiboi who's somehow slipped through...In any case, troll on a roll!

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According to this discussion (open the hatted discusion), somebody on WP is actually talking to the suspected murderer to try to get clarification for the article.... Interestingly, if he's still alive he's a clued up guy and it's possible that he's monitoring this talk page. Discussion isn't about ...

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Well, he's certainly notable now! Maybe that's the point? I also wonder why his WP editing isn't discussed in the article itself, as it may relate to his case at some point. If I were in LE, I would be looking at these sorts of articles closely, because at some point he's going to log onto an accoun...

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(This discussion was split off from the Fae Thread, since it's off topic. However, this subject should be discussed on its own) (worth pointing out as well the main porn problem exists on Commons; Wikipedia is not too bad as the "objectionable" images mostly sit in the porn related articles, which i...

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One might ask whether any child is notable, even if they are the child of notable parents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infanta_Leonor_of_Spain Some children definitely are, such as child actors. Would anyone doubt that, had WP been around, Margaret O'Brien would deservedly have had an article befo...

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The thing is: according to this very policy, they are transcription monkeys . They really are not supposed to do anything more than mindlessly quote the sources, taking content which is almost certainly in copyright and spitting out "free" content. There's no getting around that, in spite of what Ji...

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I just posted about this. Haiduc has been ID'd. He's almost certainly not a pedophile. This is a cultural misunderstanding. PD knows what I'm taking about here.

Risker should learn to keep her mouth shut. She doesn't understand at all what's going on here. It's going to end badly, obviously....

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He also expressed the idea at the very end that there was a need for 'healing' in the community. This was positive. On the other hand, he made a vague offer (though I may have misunderstood this, and don't want to get him into trouble with the trustees) of my starting editing again. That was a big ...

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