Wikipediocracy

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maunus and Jytdog make the argument that MEDRS applies to genetic studies (or at least genetic studies related to ethnic groups) 718484538 I think it would make sense to adopt a strict sourcing policy for genetics sections - possibly MEDRS. There are so much unreviewed terrible genetic/ethnicity stu...

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Try making sense out of Centrifugal pump : Centrifugal pumps are a sub-class of dynamic axisymmetric work-absorbing turbomachinery. There are a lot more mish-mash articles on mechanical and electrical engineering. "Crap article" applies to almost all of them. It might make more sense to have a "goo...

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Try making sense out of Centrifugal pump : Centrifugal pumps are a sub-class of dynamic axisymmetric work-absorbing turbomachinery. There are a lot more mish-mash articles on mechanical and electrical engineering. "Crap article" applies to almost all of them. It might make more sense to have a "goo...

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Biscuittin's position on COI is made clear on his talk page: "Holding an opinion is one thing. Being an active campaigner for or against a particular cause is quite another". http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=7520 Clearly not what is generally understood by the term 'conflict of ...

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I noticed Is Wikipedia getting better on Jimbo's talk page a few days ago (already archived). Statistics based on ORES (part of the Revision scoring as a service project)? Don't know exactly what they base the scores on... According to the great scientist "Smallbones" (who lives near me, in Media, ...

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We don't seem to have discussed WikiProject Accuracy , a project started this year to "help solidify WP's reputation as an accurate and trustworthy source of general knowledge" (sic). Why on earth has such a thing not existed since the earliest days of Wikipedia? I noticed Is Wikipedia getting bett...

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They don't even manage to fix simple mistakes. Some nitwit who never worked in IT decides that a range is owned by a webhost and blocks it, and all other admins are too chicken to go against him.

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No. I don't think two unblocks is necessarily proof of cronyism either, but at three or four, especially when no one else is willing to unblock, or when the blocks are long and quickly overturned, it might be. If you want to look for evidence of cronyism: blocks, unblocks, changed block settings fr...

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EDITOR= Giano II; ADMIN= Jimbo Wales; 21:49, 8 February 2009; (Be good) EDITOR= Giano II; ADMIN= Jimbo Wales; 00:24, 23 December 2006; (I fully endorse the previous block, and unblock with a FIRM request for civility going forward) Yes, we obviously need to stamp out the cronyism between Jimbo and ...

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I had an idea that might help discourage cronyism at Wikipedia. What if admins were only allowed to unblock editors one time each? If an admin had previously unblocked you, they would be disallowed from ever doing so again. If this were policy, certain editors would quickly run out of sympathetic a...

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Payed for by the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority. The Wikispeech pilot project is a collaboration between KTH, the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority, Wikimedia Sweden and STTS speech technology services. PTS is financing the project. https://www.kth.se/en/forskning/artiklar/kth-hjalper-wikipedia...

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Well, they've got a lot of work, with about 8,000 registered users and 20,000 to 40,000 IPs and IP ranges blocked each month. Although Procseebot (T-C-L) does most of the IP blocking. The Admins do about 500 blocks a day.

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Standing Outside the Fire Why are the "Edit" links in such a large font and squished next to the section title? :blink: Bizar. 'Edit source' links are missing. Tried the source text on my user page, result was ok. is the html code saved on the server or generated when a page is viewed? Could try ma...

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Unfortunately, as big a site as Wikipedia is, this is just one of those things we have to deal with sometimes and unfortunately we are not going to stop it every time. Personally this is at least the 3rd one I have seen (and others can probably list more). The problem I have is this. Everyone knows...

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That pdf of the court proceedings is worth reading, some mildly amusing passages. Don't really agree with (or maybe better: "don't like") the use of "electromechanical" for such switches, simply "mechanical" would be better, but taken as a whole, "electromechanical snap-action switches for a current...

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Also, is there any way you could calculate this for sessions with no breaks longer than one hour? longest session and number of sessions longer than16h, 20h, 24 hr, with time between edits less than 1 hour. All users with ten or more 16 hour sessions: Editors .....longest >16 >20 >24 RonaldB 49 148...

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Is that UTC? I freaking hate UTC...lol Gilliam is in Kentucky (not stalking him, he just has that on his userpage), so can we adjust that to EST? I mean, he pretty clearly is editing almost any time he isn't asleep, but I'd like to see that adjusted to his (and my) time zone. You hate UTC? Stay awa...

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Sorry, yes, you're right. But Gratus needs the IPBE because https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Global_permissions/2015-12#Global_IP_block_exempt_for_Gratus,he uses TOR so it's not a question of lifting a range block. He has pointed this out to MikeV but has been ignored. Maybe MikeV t...

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If anyone's wondering, I meant people who, judging by their contributions, are always on Wikipedia. Guess I should have clarified. The guy I mentioned in the first post sometimes edits 16 hours a day. On a forum I used to post on, several people accused me of being several people or a government tr...

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If someone has a named account and is editing in good standing, doing positive contributions and requests it through UTRS or some other method, there is no reason at all to deny it. That is exactly what Ignore all rules is for! It isn't there just so some admins or arbs can ignore all the rules whe...

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thekohser wrote:A revised report has been released.

Perhaps I should have mentioned that in my post (Fri 13 )..

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The NOMINATE part was simply a thought. I would probably do something rather quick and dirty. A simple thing would be to simply see who votes together and separately most often. That in itself would give an indication of polarization or cliques. I did that back in 2006 on about two years' worth of ...

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Perhaps I've missed it, but the search doesn't turn up any discussion about such a change in policy. So if I want to run a webserver at home, I have to pay for a second IP address, because a server might possibly be a proxy? I instituted a policy of blocking IPs that appeared to belong to webhostin...

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Mike was conducting a periodic audit of all users with IPBE, and as far as I can see he generally acted within the bounds of the policy as written. And therein is the problem, I think we are a bit too stingy with IPBE. The policy needs to be loosened up. Unfortunately that would involve a big polic...

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Weren't you the admin who banned WP's greatest mathematician? :lookdownnose: I'm not sure who you are referring to. The one who really didn't like admins... Linas (greatest is perhaps an exaggeration, he would have named Silly rabbit , I think) ok, yep I did block him. He was lashing out at everyon...

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Beeblebrox wrote:
Drijfzand wrote: Weren't you the admin who banned WP's greatest mathematician?
I'm not sure who you are referring to.

The one who really didn't like admins... Linas (T-C-L) (greatest is perhaps an exaggeration, he would have named Silly rabbit (T-C-L), I think)

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Some years ago I came to the conclusion that using profanity on Wikipedia is a mistake. What happens, pretty much every time, is that whatever idiotic behavior drove you to the point of swearing is suddenly not the issue anymore, the one or two words you said in exasperation at said behavior will n...

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Since the other thread was locked... As reported February 19 by Iridescent on their talk page, Mike V recently removed IPBE rights from "a big batch of editors" (211 to be precise). The discussion was locked before I got any answers to my question: Could IPBE be used to dodge policy or cause troubl...

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I've got the names of all the pages from the oktober DB dump, 5307 of them contain "Wikipedia:Requests for adminship", may include a few other pages like essays... I'm not going to unzip all the 7z-files again,takes way too much time, but downloading them with wget is easy. After that, parsing the h...

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Why are Tretikov and Möller even discussing editor retention, something that depends mainly on the community, not on actions by the WMF? Surely VE was supposed to be about editor recruitment and retention. That it was a fiasco is irrelevant. That would depend on how they measure retention; if they ...

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Could you explain what IPBE is, assuming you didn't mean Institute of Practical Bible Education? Sorry I didn't reply sooner. I was busy with other tasks. IPBE is Wikipedia:IP block exemption I had to look it up myself when I first read the comments about it, but I figured everyone here would alrea...

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Indeed, his edits have https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sad_Puppies&diff=705688093&oldid=705639127,twice been https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sad_Puppies&diff=next&oldid=705694372,reverted on grounds of COI. As if that article was of the slightest importance! And restored again...

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Don't know about Corbett, but some users are definitely affected by this. Kleinzach (prolific contributor, mainly about opera) Can you let me know why this has been done. I still need IP block exemption. Kleinzach 03:32, 19 February 2016 (UTC) @Kleinzach: A review of your account shows that you have...

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Why are Tretikov and Möller even discussing editor retention, something that depends mainly on the community, not on actions by the WMF?

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What are the boundaries of the WMF discussion list? It was never intended to be a free-fire zone for staff to vent against their boss. Obviously, Lila reads and responds to the list as well as her talk page on the Meta Wiki.[link]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:LilaTretikov_%28WMF%29[/lin...

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Hmmm. I wonder. If you were to put an article in your sandbox, would google hit on it? You have to check the robots.txt file to see which pages are and aren't supposed to be excluded from search engines. How would I do that? namespace 2, 3, 118, 119 are non-indexed by software settings (user + talk...

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Why the fuck didn't they? seems to be answered by "because they're all known, but not super famous, and coverage on them is limited online. Many of the articles heavily source from obituaries.While this is a poor line of argument, I could make a "why the fuck are these white males involved in subst...

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See:
Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia content (T-H-L)
Wikipedia:Buying Wikipedia articles in print or another form (T-H-L)

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I'm not seeing it. Are you using a proxy or something? No, stable IP. Strange... it's been replaced with a message about the steward elections now. Did someone screw up? :twilightzone: Didn't find details about it (the idea was mentioned on their talk page 7 or 8 months ago, the launch was mentione...

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Elizabeth Alexander , this lady was an ACCIDENTAL astronomer. In her regular life she was a freaking geologist who accidentally made a bigger discovery (radio waves coming from the Sun) than most of us could dream of by, like, trying our whole lives. I'll be in the corner feeling inadequate if anyo...

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What bothers me is the claim that these articles "should have existed long ago" (as Gorillawarfare writes in the comments). That would be hard to prove based on objective criteria, and such a statement illustrates cognitive bias imo. Gorillawarfare also believed the false results from the harassmen...

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What website is Drmies talking about? Maybe the one I linked to yesterday on Re: A question about Drmies? Here is the site's "About" page: http://marinkavandam.com/about.html. I wonder why they removed the navigation menu a day later? Larkin, this page writes: " one of us contributed at the end of ...

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Do these articles deserve space? I don't know, but as a few pointed out on the discussion that in their opinion (I'm not knowledgeable about biology or policy in science matters to have an opinion) these women are mostly minor players and there are thousands of other people who similarly don't have...

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Wasn't there a study that pointed to lower participation from both men and women when news reports about gender gap, GG etc. appeared in the media? If there was, you're free to provide a link so everyone can read it. Arguing based on something you haven't provided to the people you're talking to is...

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As to the op-ed itself, I don't find anything wrong with it. The language was not gratuitous; it did have a point, though it did get repetitive. Mike Peel is free to object to the language. Different strokes for different folks. The comments attacking editors who object to the language are rather s...

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The irony of men tut-tutting over the language over an intelligent young woman seems completely lost on those who found it offensive. Speaking of double standards, I look forward to hearing the Usual Suspects with their chatter about Hostile Work Environments and Actionable Culpability Under Workpl...

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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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Earley's last post with his WMF account was on the 3rd. oh fuck it, got better things to do. I'm sure that Neotarf will stay on the task, on your behalf. :D Checked her WP account today. And then looked up her name here. That explains a lot, I guess I was the only one who didn't know her yet... She...

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It isn't always sensible to count a range of 256 IPs as 256 blocks. A range may be entirely owned by a firm or a university, and someone editing from there might use any of those addresses. Thus to stop an individual requires a range block; that's exactly what they're for. However, range blocks sho...

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What are IPv4 ranges counted as? Also 1? So that means Elockid has blocked an IP address or range on nearly 4 million separate occasions? Doesn't seem likely---he's not online all that much. Or are you counting the number of actual addresses? FWIW, Elockid has always seemed to me to have more techn...

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