Wikipediocracy

Larkin

That's a good argument that she's notable and worth an Wikipedia article. She's said she doesn't want to involve herself with that and I think that's wise. She shouldn't have allowed that Wikimedia blog to go forward as it did.Extraordinary that she was just 12 or 13 at her RfA. There was a https:/...

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Evasion of a block is the reason given, but I couldn't see any indicator as to who it is meant to be. Maybe this editor? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/JVollenhoven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yngvadottir#Lady_Agnew Lady Agnew It's not just an IP, as you know. I hav...

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Can anyone explain the reasoning behind 86.167.158.39 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lady_Agnew_of_Lochnaw&diff=705443590&oldid=705236065,this revert by a Wikipedia administrator. The edit summary is "Reverted 4 edits by 86.167.158.39 (talk): DENY, with apologies. (TW))". The edits were ...

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Randy from Boise wrote:A tedious debate between hysterical obsessives happening over a fine point of the Manual Of Style*?!?!

Perish the thought!!!

RfB

* - See what I did there?

You're such a card Randy From Boise.

Larkin

The Robert Frost article threw Prosody at me. :blink: Although Pound would become the first American to write a favorable review of Frost's work, Frost later resented Pound's attempts to manipulate his American prosody. Frost met or befriended many contemporary poets in England, especially after hi...

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I'd no idea that "retrospect" was a verb until now. OED gives "1659 Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 270, I came here with a resolution not to retrospect" and offers nothing after "1896 Lumsden Poems 52 Morosely, by a glowing fire I retrospect the habble" . It's actually not a noun formation so common in ...

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I would say I've never been harassed on the web before making an account on Wikipedia. One reason I made an account was because I kept hearing how awful it was on Reddit (and not just from the gamergate crowd!) I figured I could write a few articles because there really are some big holes on Wikipe...

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I asked a more educated friend about 'murine' and they thought the slower adoption of the word in the United States might be due to a commercial product known as Murine (ear wax removal). I thought it might be because it sounds like 'urine.' Originally eye-drops and way back in the early 1970s when...

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Fae calls Jimbo out on his “utter fucking bullshit”: [link]https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-January/081512.html[/link] Bravo. :applause: More brownie points for Fae. If he keeps this up, some people here will actually start to like him. Erm ... I've always liked Fae and have s...

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There is no doubt that Demiurge was banned for child protection reasons. None. Kiefer was banned because he wouldn't shut up about it when the wiki-l33t didn't want a public spectacle about child molesters grooming children on the wiki talk pages. I think we can agree on that beyond any doubt whats...

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:backtotopic: The thread title (with spelling corrected) is meaningful and can be answered. The question is what the answer tells us. It certainly tells us little or nothing about whether good, relevant information is being added to the project. That of course raises the question of how we measure ...

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greybeard wrote:

<snipping the image>

Excellent cartoon!

Larkin

I kind of believe the world's knowledge is already out there. It doesn't need to be on one site. Maybe what's really needed is a non-profit search engine? By no means everything you want to know is online, and even if it is, finding it all and assembling the jigsaw takes time. I can't see how anoth...

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I wonder if that is the source of conflict with Heilman? Having just read far too many posts on Wikimedia-l, I can pretty well give you the cause now. There has been serious staff discontent regarding Lila's regime. This is not necessarily due to her making the necessary heads roll, it is due at le...

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Slashdot submission: http://slashdot.org/submission/5441793/meltdown-at-wikipedia As Wikipedia is about to turn 15 years old, relations between the volunteer community and the Wikimedia Foundation board have reached a new nadir. First, Dr James Heilman, an immensely popular volunteer noted for his ...

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Photographer plans to sue Wikipedia after judge rules monkey doesn't own the copyright to 'selfie' picture http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/photographer-plans-sue-wikipedia-after-10699073 Mr Slater said he was “very angry” at the way his images had been reproduced across the world witho...

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Korean-noble-on-bamboo-wife.jpg,There's a Commons image here which gives you handy tips on how to use the latter (so-called "incel inside" position). I don't see how that photo has a GFDL licence. It is taken off the photographer's personal site, but not by t...

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I thought that a simple concept like involuntary celibacy wouldn't be that controversial. There have been actual academic studies into the phenomenon. However, apparently on Wikipedia, it is highly suspect. I think there are a couple of reasons why Wikipedians view the topic with distrust. One, is ...

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Large enough body pillows (those at least five feet long and be well-stuffed) can be used for "male personal bedtime activities" as well without others becoming suspicious of one's "nighttime habit." Yes, body pillows are not just for pregnant women. For the record, I don't want to know how you kno...

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@ Dennis and NYB The cult of virtual friendship is one of Wikipedia’s biggest problems. I know nothing that distorts decisions more than that twaddle. WP is, if anything, unusually paranoid about canvassing. What a horror that a project relying on collaboration between humans might lead to friendsh...

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Anthonyhcole wrote:
Kingsindian wrote:
GorillaWarfare wrote:Really high-quality discussion happening here.
This is mostly because there is nothing interesting in the video. I watched it, it's mostly same old same old.
Yep. That's it.

Graph databases new to me. Probably they shouldn't be, but all the same they are. I shall resist the temptation to dabble.

Larkin

Jim wrote:See. I said it would improve.

I shan't put up the usual emoticon, but I had tears running down my eyes laughing here. Excellent.

Larkin

Red patent leather boots with 5-inch spike heels... Hmmmmmm. RfB Rackspace, that name is a godsend. Really high-quality discussion happening here. Thanks Molly. I do my best. As for her dress sense and the divinity of her boobs, I'm content to leave that to my distinguished colleagues here, but I w...

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Recorded at the Rackspace Solve 2015 conference, March 2015, published Dec 14. Treterikov is a Rackspace board member. The video has 10 views as of now, two of them were me. jPyb5f7iIds She said nothing that was really interesting to me, other than she lets her 10-year-old son fix things on wp (at ...

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the wikimedia blog that trumpeted it: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/04/06/tenure-awarded-based-in-part-on-wikipedia-contributions/,Tenure awarded based in part on Wikipedia contributions . It starts: "[John Doe's] Wikipedia resume is impressive – more than 60,000 edits, a couple of Good Articles, ...

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Don't kid yourself. http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/2010/lookup_listings/view_institution.php?unit_id=100858&start_page=standard.php&clq={%22ipug2005_ids%22%3A%2219%22},Auburn is an international prominent research-university , and nobody is awarded tenure on the basis of having written schol...

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Don't kid yourself. http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/2010/lookup_listings/view_institution.php?unit_id=100858&start_page=standard.php&clq={%22ipug2005_ids%22%3A%2219%22},Auburn is an international prominent research-university , and nobody is awarded tenure on the basis of having written schol...

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WO is considered social media by definition as well, as it has an online message board, as well as blogs that allow for commenting. Indeed. I mean I don't think it's a very significant distinction for Wikipedia from a legal point of view, other than in terms of individual liability which has been w...

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Why do you say Wikipedia isn't a social networking site (theoretically)? It http://www.wac6.com/wac6/2012/10/defining-social-media-legislatively.html,plainly is and US case law treats it as such I believe? Perhaps NewYorkBrad can elaborate. I think aspects of it are very much like a poorly designed...

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I volunteered to get something on my resume. I still volunteer when I can when my part-time job allows it. Volunteering has its ups and downs like any job. The lack of pay or benefits while dealing with the aggravation associated with the position is clear down. “I spent a number of years editing W...

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I volunteered to get something on my resume. I still volunteer when I can when my part-time job allows it. Volunteering has its ups and downs like any job. The lack of pay or benefits while dealing with the aggravation associated with the position is clear down. “I spent a number of years editing W...

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Wasn't it generous of Jimbo to let Tim Berners-Lee get half? Tim's father Conway Berners-Lee is a computer scientist (naturally retired) who was one of the earliest inventors of binary tree imethods in computer science. His insertion technique was described in the literature around 1959. The point ...

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Is it in fact possible to edit Wikipedia from a TOR node? Every time I've tried, I find the exit node has been blocked. There's a special permission (torunblocked) that can be given to people to edit logged in from a blocked Tor node. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&gro...

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Is it in fact possible to edit Wikipedia from a TOR node? Every time I've tried, I find the exit node has been blocked. There's a special permission (torunblocked) that can be given to people to edit logged in from a blocked Tor node. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListUsers&gro...

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<snip>The truth is many of these spend far more time on the drama boards than they do on content creation. It's not that people like Dennis are in some way baddies. But you have to admit, looking at the amount of time (historically in the case of Dennis) they devote to Wikipedia, that the charge of...

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It's over buddy boy. Whether you are an incel wannabe like your Earthy Astringent buddy, and want to threaten to shoot people they feel threatened by, or just threaten to mute someone not parroting your echo-chamber line of bullshit. It's over. Wikipedia has had enough of the misogynist bullshit fr...

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It's over buddy boy. Whether you are an incel wannabe like your Earthy Astringent buddy, and want to threaten to shoot people they feel threatened by, or just threaten to mute someone not parroting your echo-chamber line of bullshit. It's over. Wikipedia has had enough of the misogynist bullshit fr...

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Doug explained it further No he didn't. Not for me, anyway. He said: It's "net 4". "each "oppose" vote subtracts a "support". Doug Weller talk 16:35, 25 December 2015 (UTC) That was implicit in what I already knew, and said, even if I didn't quote that exact bit. What else would "net" mean? It's st...

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Teahouse main page Teahouse page on Meta This is supposed to "improve relations" and "encourage editing", especially among women. Feel free to post opinions on this worthy and loving project. I can see one problem off the bat: how does the average Randy find this page? It's not linked from the fron...

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Didn't Keilana become an admin at age 12 or something? And now she's on Arbcom. I believe in the little girl from Africa! Or the little girl in India, who writes about her favourite Indian towns in a not-so-oxfordian English on the English Wikipedia. Or perhaps the little brazilian girl who writes ...

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The one time that I encountered Byrne at an article, it became apparent that he's the kind of man that thinks he can push other people around online. It was an unpleasant experience. However, from this thread I can draw a more accurate picture. He is clearly a man large in neither mind nor import -...

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Very late to this as I only check Wikipedia and Wikipediocracy very sparingly these days (though I'd like to get back into it at some time), but I'd like to comment that the people who were similar to the last umpteen ArbComs were elected, and I have no faith in any of them regardless of their prev...

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Oh I know that a lot of admins and even other editors think its a big deal, but its not, its just a few extra buttons and someday they need to realize that. The sooner they are shown that they are just editors with a few extra buttons and not deities the better off the project would be. The questio...

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AGK turned in his checkuser and oversight permissions , and deleted 91 pages of his talk page archives . Since his archives were created by copying rather than moving, all the edits are still in the history. Well, all except the 500 revisions of his talk page he rev-deleted 3 years ago . How did he...

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I can't find a single main stream media report (or for that matter a significant blog) on these elections. Anyone know of one? For the book :B'. Can anyone help with an edit whose genesis strikes me as suspect? It concerns https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Veres&oldid=351908808,the sta...

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The number of abusive administrators has fallen dramatically over the years... {{Citation needed}} The trouble is that administrators do acquire power and it is an age old truth that power corrupts. Something of the sort is the basis of an integrative theory of power developed by Dacher Keltner , D...

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From ROT13 : ROT13 is not intended to be used where secrecy is of any concern—the use of a constant shift means that the encryption effectively has no key, and decryption requires no more knowledge than the fact that ROT13 is in use. Even without this knowledge, the algorithm is easily broken throu...

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Hm. If I were a malicious code person (which I most assuredly am not), encryption is not the weak point I would attack. Cross-site scripting and SQL injection look like more promising avenues for privilege escalation. Unless they were quite fantastically incompetent, encryption would not be a "weak...

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No implications for Wikipedia. All personal information is self submitted so data transfer rules do not apply. Pretty sure that can't be right. In the absence of Safe Harbour there must be some contract. However Jimmy Wales is on record now on the issue. He says there's no implications for Wikipedi...

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Well, The Starry Night looks good. Even has the Doctor Who link. {{tick}} Most of that article is from other editors whom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:C1cada#East.2C_as_opposed_to_east-southeast,C1cada praised . He was in the process of contributing to the article when he was blocked. He...

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