Wikipediocracy

Where are they? How many days does it take to count 900 votes? RfB The votes are being examined by Scrutineers who are Stewards who don't regularly edit English Wikipedia. This generally means that they have lots of other steward work going on and that they don't speak English as a first language, ...

Some voters are receiving messages about their voting triggering a Cross-site request forgery alarm. Could this affect the election? What could the problem be? No, this won't affect the election; it happens every year. Some users' connection/browser settings trigger a warning on our end that there ...

And now at 668 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_administrators . That was October 22. Now down to 656. Is there a way of retrieving these figures so they can be charted? [edit] Here is the chart from 18 Jun 2012, where it was just over 700. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/common...

Another reason there are CCI backlogs extending back years is that if you try to help out and get it wrong, your own neck will be on the line. For example, if someone has copied wholesale a piece from some book they didn't cite and other editors have since adjusted the grammar or spelling, it may c...

This is one of the aspects of free licensing that I think will limit its use in certain sectors. Professionals (or maybe even just reasonable people) have expectations that their work will be re-used in a similar context to what they created. I remember an unfortunate incident a few years ago where ...

Don't use this site to say things about people you can't/wouldn't say on-wiki. Ridiculous. There is a need for places which escape the strong-arm tactics of the "trusted" sycophants who support the WMF status quo. There are (somewhat ill-defined) limits of reasonable and ethical discourse which oug...

And let me go on record as saying that I met Eric Barbour in person yesterday. We had lunch and a nice, long and productive conversation indeed. We need to have more of these personal meet-ups. I've had very enjoyable meetings with Jon Awbrey and with Larry Pieniazek. Let me know the next time you'...

And let me go on record as saying that I met Eric Barbour in person yesterday. We had lunch and a nice, long and productive conversation indeed. We need to have more of these personal meet-ups. I've had very enjoyable meetings with Jon Awbrey and with Larry Pieniazek. Let me know the next time you'...