Wikipediocracy

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They've even got a Nobel-winning physicist, though I'm not sure I'd recommend him for anything controversial. While just about anything can become controversial on Wikipedia, however cut and dried you might think it is, it would take a pretty twisted mind to make Hawking radiation a controversial t...

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Juan Guaidó (T-H-L) seems to be moving rather quickly.

The little map that was on the page seems to have disappeared some time between last night and today. I wonder what the Official Wikipedia Stance™ will be on his presidentialness (or lack thereof, depending on who you ask).

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These single-purpose accounts, of course! ... Ithmaarbank ... Looking through the edits on the contribs page, I feel like there may have been more than one person on the account. Or at the least, whoever did this 517727392 might have been someone else. Every other edit seems to break the formatting...

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I forget, what exactly was the revenue model for this thing again? Lily Cole: Profit still looks almost Impossible.com Year end P&L accounts filed with Companies House revealed that I Am Possible Ltd - with Cole as director - was £257,889 in the red for year ended October 2015. That’s worse than 201...

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Endless Makes Its Powerful Endless OS Available to Anyone to Download Free of Charge Endless OS was created to help people with no computer training and limited or even no internet connectivity join the digital world. Its primary feature, however, is the way in which it works on any form of interne...

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David Auerbach seems to be thoroughly disgusted with Wikipedia. Is he a member here? I smell expose, and a reliable source to flesh out Jimmy Wales . While I can't say for sure if he is or isn't a member here, I do recall him posting a screenshot on twitter of a post from some thread or the other. ...

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Would it be possible to get a slightly more visible icon for stickied threads? I can certainly live with the paperclip icon, but it's somewhat hard to see.

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I mistook the attachments icon for a "stickied" icon. In any case, a visual indicator of some sort would be nice.

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Somehow, a case about an Admin/Arb's behavior over a joke article about a U.S. presidential candidate is slowly warped into a case about... GamerGate. I can't be the only one tired of 75% of topics looping back to it. ArbCom finds a way. Whatever the outcome is now, the arbs lose and the opposition ...

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MyAnimeList turns up nothing as well.

The user who made the article, Oh hey Johnny (T-C-L) mainly edited the Saka no Prince article in 2011, disappeared for around two years, and made one edit to the End of Evangelion (a different anime) article, and vanished into the ether again.

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...penned by the big man himself. Unsurprisingly, the editors note doesn't buck the trend of unpersoning Larry Sangner. Jimmy Wales is the founder of Wikipedia.org as well as other wiki-related organizations, including the charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation and the for-profit company Wiki...

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This is an excellent point — there needs to be some organized "legal defense" for good faith content people who wind up wearing white smocks and facing the executioners. In concept I like the idea quite a bit, but it's always the implementation where good ideas get fudged. For something like this, ...

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I fixed already some of these errors. And someone will maybe fix them back one day. You seem like a really industrious worker. Good job, helping to fuel the $80 million that the Wikimedia Foundation desperately needs just to keep Wikipedia ad-free and running smoothly. I have to disagree. I like to...

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full quote included to avoid the dreaded revdel. ... I would have used an archive. Don't get me wrong, I trust that you wouldn't have edited the message to suit some agenda or the other. However, others might be lest trusting. Should the edit be revdeled, and you don't have an archived copy, what's...

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Kancho The Japanese never cease to amaze me, but neither do Wikipedia shitforbrains who write stuff like this. Linked from Kancho is this, while interesting (as in, "this exists, huh"), more or less unnecessary article about the video-game adaptation. Boong-Ga Boong-Ga Only source is an article hos...

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Curious that he says nothing about the quality. Also, I'd point him to the missing articles thread, if possible.

I can't be the only one who feels uneasy that a professional would endorse Wikipedia as a good reference.

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Who cares abiut a low traffic Wikia site? Considering due to intentional brand confusion between Wikia/Wikipedia, as well as gaming of SE algorithms via backlinks and whatnot, Wikia constantly appears after WP for many topics, so like with WP articles, your average (l)user won't click past it, so i...

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New Reg Piece

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5. And whatever you do: don't ever edit the Israel/Palestine any remotely controversial area. Whatever your views: the will be a large group with opposite view, who ends up hating you. Failure at RFA is guaranteed. FTFY. It's more of a general property inherent to any mildly polarized topic on teh ...

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Liz, maybe you can ask your contact to confirm or deny that one very specific piece of information. Contact? I'm not sure what you mean. This is the thread where the image originates from: https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiInAction/comments/3tqepn/2015_arbcom_elections_voting_phase/ It's a comment by Mi...

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El Reg piece by Andreas Kolbe . Pretty good read. ---(edit)--- On an related note, I decided to stroll over to my search engine's news tab after posting and entered a query for "wikidata", and this popped up (the site is about SEO, presumably). In the section "Promote Your Content With Structured D...

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Kingsindian wrote:Introduce a block button, watch 95% of the drama disappear.

The only thing that would be worse is shared blocklists. Won't go into detail, but let's just say that this will only lead to more problems, more drama, and more factionalization, if implemented.

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tarantino wrote:Another monumental exposé by Andreas in the most recent signpost op-ed.

The search engine partnerships are very concerning. It's well known how good Jimbo's Bright Red Line works to keep out those evil paid editors. Wikidata can easily be used to game not just Wikipedia, but also search engines.

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Vigilant wrote:
AnimuAvatar wrote:Wikipedia founder considers updating policies following 'The Hunting Ground' controversy
Who wants to break it to her? I elect Kohs.

Swine!

I was just posting this.

viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7089#p163252

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Wikipedia founder considers updating policies following 'The Hunting Ground' controversy
Who wants to break it to her? I elect Kohs.

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Everyone who's suggesting GamerGate/8chan users did it/offsite canvassing wrote:...

Did nobody notice the GG/8ch slate vote I found? Nobody?
The vote for the GG/8chan slate (possibly

due to the integrated chat on the poll)
WiA thread
Misleadingly titled KiA thread

I wouldn't think they'd have more than 20 voters among them though. Still amusing.

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Hmm, could this be related? User talk:Tarc#Indefinitely_banned (T-H-L)

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Jimmy himself kicked off the discussion on his talkpage.

Should be fun fun fun

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I checked the 8chan slate vote again and well, the winners are:
MarkBernstein, GorillaWarfare, Gamaliel, NE Ent, Rich Farmbrough, Kevin Gorman, Kudpung, Drmies, and Kirill Lokshin

Best hasten slate I've seen yet.

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For some reason, DHeyward's avatar has vanished into the ether. I've tried this with two browsers, FireFox 41.0.2 on Linux, and Rekonq 2.4.2, which is linked against QtWebKit version 4.10.2 (according to my repositories). The picture I included is what I see on both browsers.

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Beat me to the punch there V.

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Vigilant wrote:
Zoloft wrote:Obviously Visual Editor "isn't here to build an encyclopedia..."
In its current release, it's a strict deletionist.

VE for ArbCom anyone?

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Captain Occam wrote:What blog posts has Mark Bernstein written that were criticizing individual arbitrators?

On here or on his own website?

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Someone linked me this over IRC: http://poal.me/3i3wmw

(The poll itself is, well a poll, the chatlog however does have an anti-semetic joke)
This will surely end well. /s

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I guess we should merge the two then.

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What happens if someone gets hold of your password manager? Surely, for safety no passwords should be kept anywhere but in your head. Most have encrypted connections and require yes, a password. An online password manager requires one to trust the host to not decrypt the passwords in their spare ti...

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http://mywikibiz.com/images/a/a6/Impossible_Alexa.jpg Sorry about the awful quality of my edit, but this rise (in the green rectangle) feels a bit too linear, especially for a dead site like Impossible. https://my.mixtape.moe/cqvxqa.png Is it possible that there was a bit of botting used to inflate...

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It's a shame the pie lady isn't running this year.

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People tend to pick very bad password. A basic requirement of a 64 character password with 10 randomly distributed symbols and 10 randomly distributed number would be near infinitely better than vast majority of password in use (probably infinitely better than all non managed passwords actually). Y...

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Ever since reading about this comic, I feel like there should be some study of how wikipedia affects the media and vice versa. See the excellent "Search: Theory and Practice in Journalism Online", by Murray Dick. He notes that many careless journalists from even the most reputable papers have copie...

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Ever since reading about this comic, I feel like there should be some study of how wikipedia affects the media and vice versa.

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They still use mailman 2. Idiots. - https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/266821 A comment on the WMF blog linked this: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52864 Upgrade Mailman to version 3 Priority Lowest I sure hope those guys don't do this. Seriously, all security-related bugs should always be...

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It seems my parrots have been lost to the ether of the fetid basement. Shame, I like parrots.

I am still waiting on diffs.

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From a quick look at Wikipedia:Security review RfC , results at the time of posting are as follow ([supportvotes/opposevotes]), Status Quo [2/20] Length increase to 6 bytes [12/1] Length increase to 8 bytes [17/2] Length increase to 16 bytes [3? (I can't tell if one vote is serious or not)/11] Case ...

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It's 2015, and we don't have HTTPS. For shame. If it's a cash issue, i suggest looking into this.

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I detect 4 diffs on this page. None of those are from slacker. Still waiting on those diffs incriminating Black Kite.

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Auggie wrote:How about enabling poll creation?

Why not strawpoll, or poal.me?

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I swear we're going to run out of server space soon...

Also there are precisely 0 (zero) diffs in the above post.

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http://tanasinn.info/

Seems to be about imageboard culture.
Or Haruhi Suzamiya.
Or both.
I can't tell.

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slacker wrote:
Dennis Brown wrote:You talk more and say less than anyone I know.
words

You remind me of Mark Bernstein. (I don't mean that as a compliment, mind you.)

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thekohser wrote:Another proof to my theorem that Wikipedia's best value to mankind is entertainment.

Considering that funny redirect death cults are a thing, I would have to agree.

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