Wikipediocracy

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Heh, some first rate academics there.
" ... Here i will write it with spaces: This ... article ... is ... a ... WP:POV fork. There. Did you catch that? ... "

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Jim wrote:
Randy from Boise wrote:He clearly doesn't have the hang of keeping it short. Or, in this case, logical.
I've always found Dan both extremely logical and extraordinarily insightful. Not something, I agree, best conveyed via the twattersphere.

+1.
Always worth reading,

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Getting back on topic, Clinton could have won three close states and the election with just another hundred thousand votes. So there are any number of small things people can point to as having made a difference. In my mind, it was simply the smug arrogance and misguided faith in their own superiori...

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Meanwhile in Canada;

http://twitter.com/HassanJ__/status/799 ... 52/video/1

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And if this RFC had a vision for the future which was likely to motivate other developers, then I would support it. But all I see here is negativity, and as such I would support closing it. Tim nailed it with that comment in the discussion. Tim is one of the few MediaWiki developers who is not an u...

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Semi related ... Years ago there used to be this guy who patrolled new pages. He wrote a clever little Python script that stripped the text and fed it thru a Google search looking for matches. Somewhere around 20% of new pages were cut and paste plagerism. Anyone know if new pages are still checked ...

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Sorry to hear as bout Ta bu shi da yu 's struggle He's a damn nice guy. I believe he's tried quit Wikipedia more than once, going back maybe ten years the first time. I can't agree with him being a "nice guy". He is, in fact, a jerk, much of which stems from the fact that he's a deeply conservative...

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Sorry to hear as bout Ta bu shi da yu (T-C-L)'s struggle
He's a damn nice guy. I believe he's tried quit Wikipedia more than once, going back maybe ten years the first time.

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Midsize Jake wrote:
Vigilant wrote:Sorry, did I trigger you?
Well, at least he wrote it out in a nice calligraphic script, instead of one of those hasty scrawls with a magic marker like we usually get from people.

Hey, don't go disrespecting sharpies.

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Midsize Jake wrote:... he did OK, especially since it's now clear that he has an even lower opinion of Dave Gerard than I do.

Oh man, I want to hear that. I'd be surprised too if someone had a lower opinion of Gerard than myself, as if it were even possible.

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Rip Kevin, u have good heart.

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I'm eagerly awaiting to see what happens when he actually shows up, ticket in hand. Then they might have an actual reason to ban him, maybe. Heh, meatspace sockpuppet? Maybe you could put on a disguise and blend in; long unkempt hair, don't bathe for a week, ratty jeans and tee-shirt, some extra pa...

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https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/sources-tor-project-board-knew-about-allegations-against-jac?utm_term=.dc9agR05wx#.pn58ZyJ9dear " ... (Sue) Gardner, not yet a Tor employee, broached the subject. According to a source with knowledge of the dinner, Gardner said her friends had been asking her...

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And that's relevant to this thread because... There has been a recurring theme in the various threads related about this topic (Julian Assange, snowden, wikileaks) whereby some of the whistle blowers idolized as heros are actually nasty vile hypocrites. That needs to be squared and considered when ...

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One of the hacker/privacy/anti government surveillance activists just took a nasty tumble;

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/tor-devel ... se-claims/

Website detailing allegations;

http://jacobappelbaum.net/

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BTW, I just filed my first ANI , based on a conflict on the Jedediah Smith article. Not sure why this dweeb-bag Jojhutton is pissing me off so much, but he is. Heh heh. Wikipedia is a dweeb-bag magnetic. Using Wikipedia articles for self published books has been going on for years. In fact, the pro...

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Commons definitely needs to be their own boss. Just think of the work they could do unshackled.

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August 16 , 2015: I have a longstanding view that we need to get serious about this and that a fair number of toxic personalities need to be shown the door immediately. If anyone wants my personal list, I can give it. August 19 , 2015: It was a foolish remark said in an emotional moment. It's not r...

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Do they not do any sort of UAT before they unleash each new cowpat on the unsuspecting user base? Many of the reported bugs should have been caught by even fairly rudimentary testing. I've done more rigorous testing of throwaway sysadmin tools than the WMF Engineering team seems to do of live produ...

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Konveyor Belt wrote:And here comes Coretheapple, here comes Resolute, the whole gang is here. Assholes one and all...

Ringing endorsement, their opposition is.

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SB_Johnny wrote:
SB_Johnny wrote:Is Dingley one of those who turns over every rock looking for traces of anyone not of the body?
Ah, apparently so.

This one is turning into a classic; https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =669238737

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Dingley has posted at the conflict of interest noticeboard that he thinks Metasonix should have a notice on it and its talk page, despite the glaring fact that EricBarbour has been blocked since 2009. Alison made this very obvious observation and removed the tag, but has run into resistance, includ...

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Dingley has posted at the conflict of interest noticeboard that he thinks Metasonix should have a notice on it and its talk page, despite the glaring fact that EricBarbour has been blocked since 2009. Alison made this very obvious observation and removed the tag, but has run into resistance, includ...

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Hex wrote:
Vigilant wrote: He's shitting up the Mongol empire with SCA faggotry.
I understand your point, but would you please mind not using the word "faggotry" again?

That's speaking both as myself and as Wikipediocracy's newest forum mod.

Yeah, Vigilant, don't be a cunt.

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I think I proposed once that WP punish activists by removing the affected articles from Google searching. In other words, don't allow the articles to show up in Google searches. I don't know if it's technically feasible, but if it is it would probably work because the reason people fight over the c...

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... Dr. Paul McHugh, June 10, 2015 ... In two states, a doctor who would look into the psychological history of a transgendered boy or girl in search of a resolvable conflict could lose his or her license to practice medicine. By contrast, such a physician would not be penalized if he or she starte...

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This was a slam-dunk for the WMF -- a woman of color, converted (hook, line, and sinker) to the joy and wonder of Wikipedia! How Hosting an Edit-A-Thon Made Me Trust Wikipedia - by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson of Waitt Institute National Geographic Voices Once I had a deeper understanding of the process...

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The online version of EB is thin. If you go to your local library an read the bound versions from the last century, it's a different story. ... and one of course that's badly out of date. Many articles on science, history, geography, and other topics do not go out of date. I still use my bound, 32-...

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Well, if this is the new Wikipedia-bashing/I love EB thread, time to chime in... Let's all agree on this from the top: the electronic version of EB is terrible, sort of a trite and fluffy cross between Wikipedia and some second string hardcopy EB wannabe. It is not a stylistic masterpiece, it is no...

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Shitposting - because you're still in the basement. Heheh, mellow out Hex. Oh dear... American LARPing. How is anyone meant to take fighting seriously if your "sword" looks like a foam-padded wiffle bat? ... All the armor, helmets and mail are steel. I dated a LARPer for a long time - they take it ...

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Richard Symonds is now being stripped of his last life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Sockpuppet_investigation_block/Proposed_decision#Chase_me_ladies.2C_I.27m_the_Cavalry:_Desysopped I see that GorillaWarfare fashioned her shield into a sword . And, ever strong ...

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Last time I used Bessel functions it was to better understand and model resonance peaks in neutron-nucleus cross sections - there are peaks and valleys in elements corresponding to thermal energy. I mapped Bessel functions to experimental data and got a nice correlation, which in turn allowed me to...

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http://www.vox.com/2015/6/3/8706323/college-professor-afraid This new understanding of social justice politics resembles what University of Pennsylvania political science professor Adolph Reed Jr. calls a politics of personal testimony, in which the feelings of individuals are the primary or even e...

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Last time I used Bessel functions it was to better understand and model resonance peaks in neutron-nucleus cross sections - there are peaks and valleys in elements corresponding to thermal energy. I mapped Bessel functions to experimental data and got a nice correlation, which in turn allowed me to...

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I stopped donating to public broadcasting about 15 years ago. I had donated $50 that year and was immediately rewarded with non-stop junkmail and solicitations for more donations. I got multiple letters from OPB, NPR, PBS and pretty much every associated group. One solicitation letter was four pages...

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And the results are in... Complete turnover of the board, with the election of Dariusz Jemielniak (User:Pundit), James Heilman (User:Doc James), and Denny Vrandečić (User:Denny). That seems about as good a result as could have been hoped. As anticipated, I finished in the middle of the pack, runnin...

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User:Kevin_Gorman/exp An Explanation As some of you (especially anyone on this page :P) may have noticed, my use of Wikipedia since December/January has been erratic. Since I'm an admin (and have at times acted oddly,) I figured this deserved an explanation, especially since I used the toolset duri...

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Looks like he went off on a tizzy after he got publicly called out on AN/I ([link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Unblock_of_JackTheVicar[/link]) Edit: Add link Oh my, there's Ironholds strutting around and dispensing of his wisdom. I'd like those five...

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Very entertaining. You came off well Greg. As much as the guys were doing their juvenile act, you could tell there was some genuine interest there.

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Nilfmonkey Probably Ryan Flynn. Google+ page; Flynn “Nilfmonkey” Ryan Currently 'Grants Officer at Friends-International' https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanaflynn Just erased two of the three original founders from history. The article now reads as an advertisement and qualifies for 'crap article' st...

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http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-hastert-misconduct-20150529-story.html I think Hastert is about to be crapped on thoroughly. It looks like he deserves it from the reports. Indicted former House Speaker Dennis Hastert was paying a former student from Yorkville, Ill., to conceal his alleged sexua...

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I stand corrected. I and others would no doubt apply "lovable" to Eric Barbour and Vigilant, and describe other men's apparent second-thoughts about them as "fickle". :sarcasm: I'm as lovable as can be...just not to shitheels. So you're saying that everyone who doesn't like you is a "shitheel", wha...

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I stand corrected. I and others would no doubt apply "lovable" to Eric Barbour and Vigilant, and describe other men's apparent second-thoughts about them as "fickle". :sarcasm: I'm as lovable as can be...just not to shitheels. So you're saying that everyone who doesn't like you is a "shitheel", wha...

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... the culture emerged because of "beliefs" about the technology held by influential participants, not the technology itself. While that is a potentially defensible position, it's fundamentally unprovable -- which held more sway, the way the software started, or the core beliefs of the initial use...

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Mmmm... I am curious to know if that is edible. http://babyparenting.about.com/od/miscellaneousrecipes/f/is-it-safe-to-eat-playdough.htm,It should be. "The good thing is that the commercial brand of modeling clay Play-Doh is non-toxic and has been since the first day it was marketed to children." I...

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2009–11 Toyota vehicle recalls (T-H-L)

17,000 words of regurgitated news articles, with no clear conclusions.

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Inclusionest/deletionest debates lose sight of the forest for the trees. You should be far more concerned with improving quality. Improving quality requires work, and leadership from the WMF, which doesn't seem to care about quality, only quantity. It's really much easier just to tag articles for d...

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Inclusionest/deletionest debates lose sight of the forest for the trees. You should be far more concerned with improving quality. Improving quality requires work, and leadership from the WMF, which doesn't seem to care about quality, only quantity. It's really much easier just to tag articles for d...

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Fastily has resigned from Commons :( No sad face here. Not a single tear or even the hint of a pout. Fastily was one of the worst arch-deletionists among the Free Files Only, Maaaaaan crowd at En-WP and his departure there singlehandedly improved the weather by two degrees. He'll be back, hopefully...

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