Wikipediocracy

Dysklyver

As much as Wikipedia is debatably hosting pornographic material, I think it is worth bearing in mind that, the at the time unofficial, British internet regulators previously blocked a single Wikipedia page for containing child pornography and actually backed down after the backlash this caused. If b...

Dysklyver

I just saw this on-wiki and can’t be bothered to read this whole thread. Will this actually provide some kind of benefit and if so, to whom? Please answer in 500 words or less. The short version is; somebody in the WMF want's IP addresses hidden, as they are concerned about legal ramifications. Cer...

Dysklyver

Well we do know that CheckUser data is only held for 91 days at most, although prior to 2019 logs were often held for up to 98 days . This is roughly in line with the relevant WMF/Meta policy . Checkuser includes IP and user-agent data for far more than edits, everything from unsuccessful login atte...

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I've seen sleeper accounts that have never edited blocked much longer than 90 days after they were created. Does CU indicate what IP an account was created with regardless of how much time had elapsed? That is an excellent question. IP data is stored every time you login, it can be found via checki...

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What useful purpose does the WMUK serve? A good question, let us examine what they have to say for themselves on the Charity Commission website... They have 10 paid employees, one of whom is paid over £90,000 a year (declared). They have 10 trustees, whom are declared as unpaid, and 507 volunteers ...

Dysklyver

WMUK is much like any Wikimedia organisation, a 'good idea' which regularly fucks up due to the incompetence of its unpaid management. No 'real' business works on the basis of picking its leaders with popularity contests between random unqualified volunteers. The reoccurrence of fucking inane shite ...

Dysklyver

(Some Southern states allow child marriage to reduce the incentives for abortion.) Just to add more fuel to the burning dumpster fire this thread is, I note that according to Child marriage in the United States , only 6 US states actually ban child marriage, it's legal in all the other states to va...

Dysklyver

[...] So in your view this may just be due to the abnormally long arm of the WMF, which permits it to know about and punish off-wiki shenanigans? Did you slip a laxative in the KoolAid at a MoveCom social or something? [...] The WMF has short puny arms... I would say. I spent time directly annoying...

Dysklyver

Well, now that you and the swivel eyed loon are both SanFranBanned, when are we to expect the announcement of your impending marriage? I married someone else already (ironically just before Covid :D ), guess he's right out of luck. Actually kind of interesting to see the email they send when a ban ...

Dysklyver

Trump is now so unpopular among the non-brainwashed, it's possible that he could be beaten by just about anyone Even John McAfee ? The whale fucking, drugged out, tech millionaire and crypto king, who is currently wanted by the IRS for tax fraud, but escaped on a yacht before they could get him... ...

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Dear Arthur Kerensa, This communication is to notify you that the Wikimedia Foundation (Foundation) has globally banned you from Foundation websites and platforms (including but not limited to any site listed at www.wikimedia.org, mailing lists hosted by the Foundation, Wikimedia Cloud Services, an...

Dysklyver

I for one always enjoy his posts.

Dysklyver

One day a misconfiguration will accidentally delete the entire database, and everyone will panic for a day as they restore from a backup.

Dysklyver

This is still one of my favourite forums.

Dysklyver

There have been a number of technical issues with the edge servers, Essams and so forth. It does not seem to me that it is a major concern at present.

Dysklyver

I wonder if this Israeli group will return.

Dysklyver

BHG will be a loss, R. Haworth could probably be replaced with a bot with no loss, and Kudpung is just a grumpy idiot.

Dysklyver

Yeah sounds about right.

Dysklyver

I believe that currently extant policy suggests that all large companies publicly listed on major stock exchanges are inherently notable.

Dysklyver

The portal namespace should have been deleted the first time around. But nah, people gotta argue.

Dysklyver

It's a common misunderstanding that the financial value of a company has anything to do with whether it merits a Wikipedia page. Regarding Crypto, it's almost universally scams or short lived over-hyped projects. Few Crypto related topics will have lasting significance.

Dysklyver

Vigilant wrote:Is it dead yet?

Nah.

The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.

Dysklyver

Perhaps a clever coder can write a script that says "An editor you are banned from interacting with made the most recent edit to this article. Are you sure you want to save your changes?" Would that be enough? Suppose the other editor made major changes, then there were a few other, maybe minor, ch...

Dysklyver

It appears to me that all the claims are accurate so clearly Wikimedia is trying to ignore it again. There are at least three other small Wikipedia projects under effective government control, two more under control of the far-right, others spreading mis-information, and that's even before looking a...

Dysklyver

This RfA is an absurd example of witch-hunting.

Dysklyver

I swear we already have a thread about this or it was discussed before at the very least.

Moderator's note: Threads merged. Thanks!

Dysklyver

... removing the “Controversy” section in its entirety.

Ha, the police don't like that clearly.

Removing the controversy section is a definite no-no so name regardless they were going to have issues there.

Dysklyver

Regardless of the WMF ban drama there is absolutely no way Fram should be an admin, but it looks like the RfA going to fail anyway so that's all fine I guess.

Dysklyver

Of course the WMF could use Skype like everyone else does.

Dysklyver

Blocking: Blocking policy applies normally, but a candidate shouldn't be disqualified for being blocked (except for sockpuppetry) after nominating him/herself. Interesting how they are covering this in advance this time. :evilgrin: Stated reason: happened in 2012 . Of course this is only a question...

Dysklyver

Blocking: Blocking policy applies normally, but a candidate shouldn't be disqualified for being blocked (except for sockpuppetry) after nominating him/herself.

Interesting how they are covering this in advance this time.

Dysklyver

Ironically the Basque Wikipedia is one of the better small wiki projects around, and their Txikipedia program is a particular favorite idea of mine.

Dysklyver

Plenty of people hold both US and UK citizenship. Boris Johnson did until quite recently. Indeed, he only renounced his US citizenship after he found that he was liable for some US taxes. You'd think he'd renounce his British citizenship after he found out how much easier the American tax code was ...

Dysklyver

Phabricator is a bug tracking system used by the devs, so by default of having been posted there it's guaranteed not to happen, because there is no process on Phabricator for anyone to decide to do it.

So basically it's a non-starter because it's in the wrong venue.

Dysklyver

I’ve no idea how the Wiki software is organized. It's open source, go check out mediawiki.org . I’m assuming it’s in a github repo that you can download and create your own wiki site. Is that correct? Yes it's on github. If so, do the checkuser tools come with it, or is that in its own private repo...

Dysklyver

When this DDoS attack happened on Friday, I was kind of hoping the hackers would replace the main page on en:wp with some banner like "Bring Laura Hale to justice". That would be great global exposure. The "hackers" just overloaded a network switch, there was no chance of anything high effort happe...

Dysklyver

Poetlister wrote:You do wonder how reporters spot these short-lived pieces of vandalism.

A little birdy tells them.

Dysklyver

This has been around for months but to be fair always just looked another stale wmflabs project.

As a concept the idea is good, but they don't have a production ready working implementation of said concept.

However, their mockup is pretty decent all things considered.

Dysklyver

It's called SEO, Google scores images from Wikimedia sites really well in search results and by uploading high-res images there, Apple can indirectly influence how it's branding appears in Google searches, the knowledge graph, etc. Remember copyright and trademarks are separate things. Apple loses n...

Dysklyver

Well some random hackers claimed responsibility on Twitter and were promptly reported to the NCSC by angry Wikimedia devs . No doubt they will be regretting it later. Embarrassingly the entirety of Wikimedia's European traffic seems to have been routed through a single network switch meaning that DD...

Dysklyver

Well Wikimedia Italy has confirmed it was a DDoS attack on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/WikimediaItalia/sta ... 5309696006

Although they have been making it pretty clear it was an attack for some time now on IRC.

Dysklyver

Reports suggest someone DDoSed essams, Wikimedias Netherlands based server.

Obviously this is an example that if Wikipedia's European edge server is turned off, then Wikipedia can't be reached in Europe.

Dysklyver

I'm personally wondering if TonyBallioni will pick this year to finally run. It does seem like he's been preening himself for such a run for two years at least... RfB Please someone, please, persuade him. Just in case the Fram case doesn't cause enough fun and games, we need a fallback. I'm not cer...

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I'm personally wondering if TonyBallioni (T-C-L) will pick this year to finally run.

Dysklyver

So the preliminary arguments of the 2019 Arbcom election season have begun.

Current debate at:
Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2019 (T-H-L)

Link to last years thread here.

Dysklyver

I never read up on the Fred Bauder stuff but people always say Wikipedia is run by the 'cabal' and the 'insiders' so how could a true insider have this happen to him? Insiders are supposed to be protected, just like if you become the WMF chair. Maria could do anything she likes without repercussion...

Dysklyver

General hotbed of Gamergate bollocks RationalWiki is also expecting it to show up, but as yet no significant new Gamergate wars have occurred there.

Dysklyver

Is this real news? Is Wikipedia really endorsing the alt-rights favorite internet browser, backed by a dodgy unregulated cryptocurrency, and a platform already criticized for ripping off it's clients, and making false representations on multiple occasions? Because that would be weird.

Dysklyver

I think it's safe to say that whatever decision the Arbcom comes to, and whatever penalty they choose to give to Fram, people here will condemn it. It will be called a whitewash, or a craven submission to the will of T&S, or a proof of the incompetence of Arbcom. Would anyone care to say now, befor...

Dysklyver

Having written articles on Wikipedia, most of us are used to discussing other editors with kid gloves. Like adults, Kiwi Farms and Y-Combinator discuss Wikipedia editors forthrightly. This isn't Wikipedia. We're not bound by Wikipedia rules, so feel free to take off your gloves. :D Yeah but Kiwifar...

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