Wikipediocracy

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The answer, unsurprisingly is 'probably'. link

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Midsize Jake wrote: ↑
Mon Nov 28, 2022 6:41 am
I mean, some of you are acting like you've never met a transgender person before.

That particular issue has been causing the Wikipedia criticism community's brains to periodically short-circuit for as long as there's been a Wikipedia criticism community! Why would it stop now?

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...I check in on these things extremely rarely now, but my impression is that, as Wikipedia ages and becomes accepted as part of the San Francisco liberal info/tech ecosystem, the WMF has been stepping in more and more (however arbitrarily), to the point where the ArbCom is gradually losing its odd...

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Is there any use caring about ArbCom anymore, from the standpoint of a '''''serious critic of Wikipedia''''' (If such a thing still exists, if it ever existed...)? I check in on these things extremely rarely now, but my impression is that, as Wikipedia ages and becomes accepted as part of the San Fr...

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It has been odd seeing the American right suddenly take aim at Section 230 because I remember a time when the only people who seemed particularly interested were, well, WO/WR posters.

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This creature has certainly learned the tricks a good member of the '''''community''''' needs to stay afloat - he's already crying that it's all a conspiracy of the Banned Unpeople. The fact that Wikipedia's internal processes, such as they are, are dominated by a relatively small group of frankly o...

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Randy from Boise wrote:I'd say the biggest surprise of this election was the horrible candidate Sir Joseph pulling a nearly 40%. He was an epically bad prospect that should have been in the low 20s. There were a ton of Hasten The Day sockpuppets in play there, or something.

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I certainly voted for him.

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From 1828 to 1960 it was the Bourbon Democrat (and the pre-Bourbon slave-owners who were the backbone of the Democratic party in the South) who carried the state consistently... My GOD, man, do you even know what year it is? Have you been in a coma for most of your adult life? Have you any sense of...

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Well in the end I decided to vote tactically in such a way as to hurt one particular candidate. It won't do much good since he's extremely likely to get in anyway but at least I'll have done all I could. Aww, Hayward & Anythingyouwant (god I hate usernames that you can't really address as an actual ...

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Isn't it amazing that Crowsnest shows up at election time, with so far every post he has ever made to this single thread? NEWSFLASH: this isn't Wikipedia. You don't get to dismiss people you don't like as SPAs here. NEWSFLASH You are a Wikipedia troll who wants to disrupt the discussion here, I can...

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JCM wrote:Isn't it amazing that Crowsnest shows up at election time, with so far every post he has ever made to this single thread?

NEWSFLASH: this isn't Wikipedia. You don't get to dismiss people you don't like as SPAs here.

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Randy from Boise wrote:Nah, his name is Rick Krabapple, Jr. or some such.

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Zoloft wrote:Right now my two choices are Sarek of Vulcan and The Rambling Man.

Negative votes for everyone else.

Convince me otherwise, candidates.

Oh, and I'm not voting for last-minute entries.

Do your time in the barrel, folks.

I'm probably going TRM and nobody else. Hasten the day and all that.

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RickinBaltimore is a member here, using the name wildthing61476 . Eleven of his twelve posts were to the December 2015 Arbitration Committee Elections thread, though. His original wp user name was RickKJr , which was obliquely referenced here . What do you think about the, ahem, 'allegation' made e...

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I guess I got involved in AP after Sir Joseph mellowed then. Funny how everyone gets such light sentences (24 hours for edit warring, commuted indefs for calling people terrorists, etc. 1 month for a dozen AE cases (here I'm thinking of Marek). I got indeffed for posting authorship information. Som...

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At the present pace of nominations, this should be a good demonstration of just how much Wikipedia seems to have slowed down in the last few years if nothing else. Not this is a bad thing, of course. Most nominations (i.e. self-nominations) happen in the last 48 hours, which would be Nov. 20 and 21...

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At the present pace of nominations, this should be a good demonstration of just how much Wikipedia seems to have slowed down in the last few years if nothing else. Not this is a bad thing, of course.

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Now on the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... hool-abuse

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https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/somethi ... 9c471271d2

Long and somewhat rambling, but a fascinating read nonetheless.

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Among the pieces of evidence that Google suggests the Trust API could use are some obvious biometric indicators, such as your face shape and voice pattern, as well as some less obvious ones: how you move, how you type and how you swipe on the screen. With the service continually running in the back...

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In case anyone had any doubts about startup culture.

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This deserves some explanation. Edmund Janniger was recently hired by the new Polish Minister of Defence as an advisor. It was the kind of appointment that wouldn't usually garner too much attention, if it weren't for the fact that Mr. Janniger happens to be 20 years old. A biography soon appeared o...

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Reading this thread, I feel like I just travelled back in time to the Wikipedia Review, circa 2006. It would surely be very surprising if the intelligence services of the USA and quite a few other countries were not trying to manipulate the contents of some articles. How good these agents are at act...

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Joanna Mucha - so short, you can quote it in full... Joanna Mucha (born April 12, 1976) is a Polish liberal politician, economist, former member of the Polish Sejm, academic teacher, doctor of economics[1] and from 17 November 2011 to November 2012 Minister of Sport and Tourism of Poland in the gov...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&offset=20070531155646&type=block&user=David+Gerard&page=&tagfilter=,For the record 17:34, 30 May 2007 David Gerard (talk | contribs) blocked Voice of Britain (talk | contribs) (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of indefinite (refer t...

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National conservatism (T-H-L)

Parties and elections..... is a useful resource, but come on.

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Cla68 wrote:If I understand correctly, "manosphereists" do not consider themselves to be misogynists.

What they consider themselves to be is not relevant, only what they say and do. (Whatever that might be, I have little desire to look into that mess.)

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A lot of the vandalism studies on Wikipedia define "vandalism" as "any edit that is reverted as vandalism". Which means 100% of "vandalism" is detected, and all that is measured is how fast it happens. Actually independently reviewing even a sample of edits and classifying them requires effort that...

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EricBarbour wrote:[...]you'd think Wikipedia would have decent coverage of the DPRK's military, nuclear and space-launch facilities.

To be fair, does anyone?

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Sentinelese language (T-H-L)

No one knows jack shit about it, but we'll write an article about it anyway!

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Again, I could bring up RationalWiki here. It is the "purest expression of Wikipedia culture". And there are many Wikipedians on RationalWiki. From my book-wiki article: A very high percentage of RW's few regular users have administrative rights, and seem to think that blocking themselves, or each ...

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EricBarbour wrote:Mebbe tomorrow. (Did you know that most of the primary editors have admin powers, and they block themselves and each other constantly, for "fun"?)

I made an account there a few years ago. I was immediately granted 'autopatrolled' status, on the grounds that my username was cool.

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Using that picture is slander in itself.

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Brussels just banned Uber. Predictably, all the usual suspects are up in arms over it.

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EricBarbour wrote:I might add that Fred Bauder's early edit history is total crap, completely unreliable and missing large chunks. And again, nobody cares.

He had another account in the early days: Fredbauder (T-C-L).

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Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam (T-H-L)

Then he shows how the concept of atheist was originally a pejorative connotation and concluded that the survival of Christianity in the form of Christian atheism on the Judeo-Christian morality.

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When I saw Skyfall, I couldn't help but notice that, when he hasn't shaved, Daniel Craig is the spitting image of Jimbo.

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Vocal wrote:Matthew Bellamy (T-H-L)

I don't even know where to start.....are the guitars he's used really more important than his childhood?

Lovely, there's another one like this: Geddy Lee (T-H-L)

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Vigilant wrote:
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Mancunium wrote: And when I explain "oversight" to them, they are just shocked and amazed.
If you like, I could make a list of examples of oversight being abused to perform coverups.
Remind me again this weekend. (It will be a rather long list.)
Carolyn Doran was my favorite.

Mine was FT2.

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Matthew Bellamy (T-H-L)

I don't even know where to start.....are the guitars he's used really more important than his childhood?

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That account doesn't exist. Misspelled?

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The Joy wrote:[...]Donald Trump[...]

I suspect he might be a bit of an embarrassment.

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At least Templerun5 mentioned as blocked in that same diff was a time-traveller. 198 years might have been in order for him but he only got 5 - he'll probably just power up his flux capacitor/TARDIS/star-gate/whatever and jump past the block end without learning his lesson. {{ClockBlock}} This user...

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So, for example, if Cla68 edits a biography and links the subject's blog, or comes to an article about a controversy and cites a statement from a participant's blog, he shall be sent back to the gulag.

Is anyone surprised that these have not been thought through?

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Qworty attacked people he didn't like for six years and Wikipedia's vaunted process did nothing about it until we pointed it out. That's embarrassing to them, so Brown blanked it as a courtesy to them.

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Context is key. The motivations of the photographer should be taken into account. I see no reason for Google Earth or Maps to see my backyard which is hard to see from the highway and it certainly shouldn't be looking above the privacy fences designed to obscure people's vision. "Information should...

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LGR fighting Benjiboi.

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Um, what? I don't see LGR in any of those links.

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thekohser wrote:
Outsider wrote:Obviously, friends and relatives will mostly only say nice things about people.
Rachel Marsden was Jimmy Wales' friend, right?

Emphasis on the 'was'.

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I'll copy my post from the Qworty thread here.

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Volunteer Marek wrote:Is it time?

Wikipediocracy (T-H-L)
Perhaps not:
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipediocracy (T-H-L)
lol, it's Shirt58 (T-C-L). I like him.

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