Wikipediocracy

Dan Gardner wouldn't happen to be related to Sue Gardner, would he? Well, they're both Canadian, so... :unsure: During a quick look at Mr. Gardner's Substack I found this piece from November 2023 entitled "The History of Technology is Most Relevant," in which he "teases" what is almost certainly th...

Does anyone think it's possible Jimbo would admit, in a book no less, that vandalism has long been a WP recruitment strategy? :dubious: I forget if it was me or Kelly Martin who first suggested that, way back during the ol' Wikipedia Review days, but I'm pretty sure nobody connected with Wikiland ma...

Okay, another good post — though, admittedly, too long again — but this does tend to contradict some of your earlier statements on the subject, no? In the past you've tended to say that the WMF is not so much to blame for Wikipedia's problems, not to mention that you seemed to be firmly in the anti-...

I'll throw my hat in on why Molly didn't make the block herself: sometimes that's the smart move. I'd say it's always the smart move, if you can get away with it and you're pretty sure the end result will be the one you want...? The only scenario in which it's advantageous to act unilaterally on a ...

Looks like nobody attempted to answer this question: P.S. Hmmmm, GW has buttons. She was not an involved party... Why didn't she do a quick, quiet block on her own? Why go to AN/I at all??? Hopefully she'll drop by and answer this one herself, but if I really had to guess, I'd say it's probably beca...

It probably depends on your genitals I daresay, but I don't think I have ever interacted with the guy directly, so that may be unfair. Hey, I agree completely. In an ideal world, you could say that "dominance behavior" only applies to sexism when the sexist is actually in a "dominant" position, i.e...

Well that's pretty amusing if true. Shall we let them know they are potentially being impersonated in a seedy Mos Eisley cantina? We wouldn't want rumours to start spreading across the Galaxy. Rumour leads to uncertainty, uncertainty leads to doubt, doubt leads to fishcakes, and you all know what t...

And the women In the room share a look. If you're referring to my saying "even if it really just amounts to (or is indistinguishable from) heavy-handed dominance behavior," that probably is unclear/overstated verbiage on my part. It should probably be something like, "even if there's a risk that ce...

Who dis? New phone. I could be mistaken, but we were under the impression that Mr. Ahypori is User: Acalamari on Wikipedia (where he/she is a Bureaucrat), and that both names are Star Wars -related. However, we didn't verify this because he/she registered before we started verifying certain WP peop...

It is seemingly something Jordan Peterson has said, or as has been speculated the Maher/NPR farago, that prompted Chris to make his comment. Something in the air. It's something Peterson said on the Joe Rogan show , back in 2018, I think - "men are more interested in things, women are more interest...

"Wikipedia: not writing articles about people before the secondary sources do"? I don't think Mr. Kraken is suggesting that Wikipedia should have proper articles on these folks (yet), nor am I suggesting it, though he does make a good point about the (lack of) redirects. Then again, I guess you cou...

Good post; we could even make it a blog entry with minimal alterations (we'd just need to expand on a few terms and conceptual references that might not be immediately apparent to non-insider/savvy readers). Of course, you might not want us to use it in such a fashion, since that level of participat...

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Is there a two-letter prefix for commons? I didn't even think about this (it's been a while), but 【neluser="commons"】and【neluser="simple"】both work too, it doesn't have to be just two letters. (Mr. Rnu's method might be easier though, in many if not most cases.) Here's Mr. Corbett on Commons: Malle...

Look, people are constantly making fun of What-Openness-Can-Be's level of intentionality, and how hard it is for non-living entities (like websites, for example) to live into it, and that's fine because everyone appreciates a good intentionalized laugh. And sure, it's easy to say that NPR brought th...

I have a vague memory about being delighted when I learned that someone had created a code to link to non-English wikipedias with the WPARTICLE tag, but I can't find the post... Maybe I was dreaming that ChatGPT posted a hallucination? That was me, but it was for users, not articles — the tag is【ne...

Would it surprise you to learn that it's Burberry ? I'm not so sure about "surprised".... "Shocked and horrified" seems like the more appropriate term... But check it out, it's on sale at Jomashop for less than $300 bucks! :smiling: (You can also get one on eBay for $115, but I wouldn't advise that...

Elinruby wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:07 am

It doesn't look like anyone has done this yet. If not shame on us

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tarantino wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:33 pm
From the file name and category, this is Canadian model James Lam, presumably taken by fashion photographer Greg Swales...

TIL that if you want to find hats like this online, you have to type "wide brim bucket hat" into Google Images, not "large bucket hat" or "oversized bucket hat."

Newspapers are well known to have an anti-Trans bias... I know there was the big story about the New York Times having an anti-trans bias, but is it fair to generalize about this by saying it's "newspapers" and not just the NYT (and, presumably, other even more right-wing-friendly outlets)? I don't...

Just as a quick update, yesterday Uri Berliner, the NPR reporter who wrote the essay for Bari Weiss's The Free Press site in support of Christopher Rufo's Twitter-targeting of Katherine Maher, was suspended by NPR for not having obtained authorization before having stuff published in other new outle...

PirateFood wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:18 am
rnu, why don't you contribute to the DYK process and step in when you see problematic hooks? It can't be harder than posting about them here.

Well... putting aside our current problems with page-load times, I suspect it would actually be a lot harder.

Maybe you could start a user group and become an affiliate (or whatever they call it) of the Wikimedia Foundation. Then your group could discuss what they highly prioritize and ask for grant money from the Wikimedia Foundation. You could channel your energy in that direction.... :welcome: They do u...

Religious editors, or editors that edit about a certain religion? In this context it's "religious editors who write/edit about their own religion," isn't it? :unsure: At least in the English language, "religious editors who write about other people's religions" are usually only objected-to by right...

Looks fine today so far. Don't worry, I promise not to accuse you of "jinxing" us when it inevitably goes to shit again. :) Then again, I did figure something out that forces me to correct something I wrote earlier: I should mention that late last year, they "rolled out" a new CPanel wherein I can ...

WMF, doing WMF things. Fuck 'em. You first! :ermm: Right-wing "critiques" of Ms. Maher's tweets from her WMF days never mention the WMF or Wikipedia, because they're worried people might figure out that her so-called "woke tendencies" were reflective of the WMF's need to close the "gender gap" and ...

Somehow, for lots of assorted reasons, Chelsea's incredibly bad 2022-23 season made Roman look even more of a nice guy than he did before, made the British government look totally incompetent, and reinforce the idea that rich Americans are stupid while rich Russians are clever. FTFY. :) On the plus...

What is the actual data on the amount of male:female editors? How can it be certain? Everything I’ve read about this is just mere assumption, and attempts to profile people based on their edits to stereotypically gendered subjects. They did an online survey of users back in 2013 or 2014, as I vague...

Are people not incredibly embarrassed by the fact the edit history for the article about them is full of paid editor accounts? No. The only people who look at edit histories are Wikipedians, and there aren't enough of them to compel anyone to make even the teensy-tiniest little alteration in their ...

Anyway, they tell me they're doing some sort of major "server maintenance" thingy that's supposed to start in about 10 minutes, and maybe last 5-6 hours, which — in theory — could mean they're trying to do something to stem the tide of complaints from customers on shared-server plans. Okay, it's no...

I'm not exactly sure how "donor rights" are being protected. I don't doubt that there's some angle I am missing. What's interesting to me is that making it easier for "stakeholders" to collaborate with each other will actually jeopardize "donor rights" rather than safeguard them. Presumably, the "r...

Seems to come and go (or as someone I know once said of their Dalnet connection, to be bouncing up and down like a $20 whore). My understanding is that the bouncing-up-and-down thing has become more of a "high-end escort" type of offering among the sex worker community, but of course I can't speak ...

I noticed that for both Paris Hilton and Pamela Anderson , the Celebrity sex tape is mentioned in the first or second paragraph of the article, but for Tommy Lee and Rick Salomon , it isn't mentioned until much later. I'm pretty sure the defense of the terminology will be that if it's referred to as...

I remain convinced, as I always was, that en.wiki doesn't need a shit tonne of admins. But it has always needed a mix of admins both in backgrounds and attitudes (including some softies to offset the hardasses) and in the kinds of tasks they do. Do you think that adding all the additional roles lik...

ltbdl wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:14 am
unless i'm stupid, the sockmaster would also be blocked

Call me naïve, but I strongly suspect that if a "sockmaster" account were to be identified in this case, that account would be blocked regardless of your level of intelligence.

Then out of the blue WMrapids was checkuser blocked by Primefac ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=&user=Primefac&page=User%3AWMrapids&wpdate=&tagfilter=&wpfilters[]=newusers&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist ). Simón, el Silbón was similarly blocked a minute before ( https://en.wikipedi...

Yeah, that didn't last long. I wonder if there are Wikipedia fans on Bluehost's server-op staff?

ltbdl wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:48 am
uh, the lock isn't very secure

Well, we bought this one from Amazon.

Trying again...

Nihonjoe was a good boy after all. Little noticed. I'm dying to know how he came to the attention of Eddy Landwher. If nobody wants to spill the WO:BEANS, the depressing reality might well just be that it was dumb luck. A chance discovery while someone was looking for something else entirely. "Eddy...

Literally what was even the point of necro'ing this thread if not for attention lol I think he's trying to say that Mr. Barkeep49 has achieved a level of influence in just 5-6 years (since becoming an Admin) that Mr. Newyorkbrad took roughly a decade to achieve, and with arguably less "fanfare," wh...

Is this saying that each user can have only one connection, or that there can only be one user connection? Technically it's both, but the "user" in that context isn't each individual visitor or forum member, it's the entire website. All of our requests to the database server come from our one hosti...

Also.... It looks like one of the things they did to ameliorate (I refuse to say "fix") the page-load-times problem was to enable caching when you use the back-button. So if you read the site via the "Active Topics" page and use the back-button to go back to Active Topics after reading the new post...

I have updates... My guess is that Bluehost totally knows they've overloaded their servers, and have been fiddling with their configurations in hopes of reducing the number of complaints. I just spent another hour or so chatting with one of their support people, and this time they seem to have — fo...

(IIRC you once called me Yog Shoggoth. I just can't remember exactly how you spelt it.) It's " Yog-Sothoth ," and it was actually a compliment because in the Cthulhu Mythos, Yog-Sothoth is basically the all-powerful universal deity, the "All-in-One and One-in-All of limitless being and self." Much ...

Agreed, this is getting ridiculous. I'm looking at A2 Hosting, Siteground, Greengeeks and maybe Hostinger as potential new hosting providers. If anyone wants to recommend some others, or un-recommend any of those four, feel free to post here or send me a PM, or if that's too slow, e-mail the Support...

Known issue. They are contemplating a hosting upgrade. More like a hosting change — unfortunately, the situation hasn't gotten much better since this post of mine a month ago. I was hoping we'd see more improvement in recent weeks, but IMO we really haven't, and Bluehost is still aggressively adver...

I thought that was a BS argument then, undescriptive of reality, and it's an argument that can't even rationally be made a decade or more later — because teenagers don't stay teenagers forever. Most of the rules and conventions put in place by those teenagers and freikulturkinder 18 years ago are s...

It seems fairly clear to me that this guy is using the term "legacy admin" to distinguish between admins who were active in the early days of WP and had (and might still have) that "must grow the database at all costs" mentality, as opposed to more recently-promoted admins who better understand that...

...I do however take the points of those who are interested and were reading and have given good advice, on board. They are my peers. And so I invite their comments regarding how such things should be covered in a Wikipedia criticism forum setting for the maximum benefit of wider society and the be...

Mods, time for a word limit for Crowken. We'll probably need one for me too, since you skipped paragraph 4 of my earlier post about this problem and you probably would have caught it if it had only been one or two paragraphs. As for the posting-length question(s), once I upgrade to the latest phpBB...

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