Things have randomly improved now, I wonder how long for.
I spoke too soon.
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- Mon Apr 08, 2024 5:23 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 88
- Views: 2721
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 88
- Views: 2721
Re: Server issues
Today the servers have been a lot slower than usual, and I've been getting quite a few Internal Server 500 errors.
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:10 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 88
- Views: 2721
Re: Server issues
Load times are impressively long... Same for me. ---- When my phone is on mobile data, I'm also unable to access the website. Is this a part of the same issue with the server host, or is this a separate one? No idea what part of the world you are in, but it's possible that the "age-restriction" set...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:01 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Universal CoC
- Replies: 290
- Views: 23387
Re: Universal CoC
There now appears to be UCoCk elections for co-ordinators or something now link
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:05 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30988
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
Well it wouldn't be an Arb case without him commenting, sounding like AI wrote it.
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 10:56 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Naive ideas to improve en-wp
- Replies: 160
- Views: 17621
Re: Naive ideas to improve en-wp
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Bureaucrats%27_noticeboard&oldid=1195416174#Redaction_requested_at_Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Red-tailed_hawk On the new skin, there is a link at the top-right of the page named "Tools". Click on that, then click on "permanent URL" and you'l...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
- Replies: 1586
- Views: 494930
Re: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
Is it safe for Smiley to come out now?
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 8:11 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Undetected vandalism
- Replies: 207
- Views: 71598
Re: Undetected vandalism
2024 Copa América The tournament's official mascot was unveiled on December 7, 2023, during the group stage draw. Its name is Capitán, which is a Spanish word meaning "captain". It is half chicken, one-quarter woodpecker, and one-quarter jayhawk.[27] The third sentence, which was inserted in front ...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 7:20 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2023 Arbcom Election Time!
- Replies: 158
- Views: 101873
Re: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2023 Arbcom Election Time!
Robert McClenon throws his non-admin hat into the ring again.
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 7:55 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930639
Re: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
telegraph: Fresh blow for Elon Musk as government pulls millions in Twitter advertising The Government has stopped advertising on Twitter in a fresh blow for Elon Musk’s social network as it faces an exodus of major brands. Departments have stopped paying for ads on Twitter, now known as X, in rece...
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 12:14 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2023 Arbcom Election Time!
- Replies: 158
- Views: 101873
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 5:49 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2023 Arbcom Election Time!
- Replies: 158
- Views: 101873
Re: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2023 Arbcom Election Time!
Might as well get the ball rolling. Nominations start later today. Looks like there are nine spots open. Not sure at this point which current arbs are planning to run again, but I'd guess at least three will be taken by incumbents. So, six viable new nominations should do it. You're not doing so, a...
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 10:43 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 791
- Views: 419929
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
DYK ... ... that ranchers in the community now known as Loybas Hill ran their own telephone company for 60 years? Loybas Hill was called "Squaw Hill" until earlier this year. " Squaw " is an ethnic and sexual slur. As the article notes the name was changed "as part of a process to remove derogatory...
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 9:23 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Industrial Agriculture Arbcom Case (split from "KoA blocked again")
- Replies: 118
- Views: 65391
Re: Industrial Agriculture Arbcom Case (split from "KoA blocked again")
The evidence phase has just been extended a week as they've now added Gtoffoletto as a party.
I assume because they had the audacity to not be on the correct side of the argument. (I've not read the case so this is an entirely made-up reason).
I assume because they had the audacity to not be on the correct side of the argument. (I've not read the case so this is an entirely made-up reason).
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 6:36 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Industrial Agriculture Arbcom Case (split from "KoA blocked again")
- Replies: 118
- Views: 65391
Re: no smoking zone
Looks like the evidence phase may close without anyone mentioning KoA, etal. narrowly failing to tank SFR's RfA over Ariel Fernandez . I see that KoA's removal of the name of Henry I. Miller from the glyphosate article has been mentioned. (NYT is apparently not a WP:GHOSTWRITERSontheSLY RS) The "sc...
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 7:27 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Enshittification and YouTube's Adblockblock
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3724
Re: Enshittification and YouTube's Adblockblock
My ublock origin updated and the Youtube Adblockblock seems to have disappeared. It's only the first volley in the war. Expect that Alphabet will get more and more vicious as the fight continues. Yep, they updated and are now "3-striking" me, to say that I will be barred if I continue to use an adb...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 8:52 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Enshittification and YouTube's Adblockblock
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3724
Re: Enshittification and YouTube's Adblockblock
My ublock origin updated and the Youtube Adblockblock seems to have disappeared.
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 7:40 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Naming Soldier F gets you banned on Wikipedia
- Replies: 52
- Views: 3151
Re: Naming Soldier F gets you banned on Wikipedia
That's a separate "motion" regarding Kolya Butternut being unblocked, presumably so they wouldn't continue to talk about Flyer22Frozen or whomever it was.
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 6:20 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930639
Re: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
Fortune: X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet, reply, and quote...
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 5:09 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedia will not perform UK Online Safety Bill age checks
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2917
Re: Wikipedia will not perform UK Online Safety Bill age checks
Wikipedia should NEVER cave to the demands of foreign governments. And I use the word "foreign" with full cognizance of what I say — Wikipedia needs to be based upon American free speech values and American standards of fair use and copyright law. If you're not American, that's okay — I love ya. Bu...
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 7:35 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Roads Go Ever On
- Replies: 180
- Views: 8715
Re: Roads Go Ever On
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... _and_notes
I was looking to see what caused Rschen7754 to resign, and it seems that the Roads project has moved off to somewhere else?
I was looking to see what caused Rschen7754 to resign, and it seems that the Roads project has moved off to somewhere else?
- Thu Sep 21, 2023 5:02 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedia will not perform UK Online Safety Bill age checks
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2917
Re: Wikipedia will not perform UK Online Safety Bill age checks
Just have them slap that error 451 code on the page for UK visitors.
- Mon Sep 11, 2023 4:21 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617392
Re: Wikipedia's worst sentences
Gage and Tollner Although the restaurant building's exterior was designed in an Italianate style, the interior retains its original Victorian design, with a main dining room, a waiting room, and a second-floor cocktail lounge. “Italianate”, as used here is an architectural style of the Victorian pe...
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 3:36 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: The dialect pushers
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1026
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 2:46 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: The dialect pushers
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1026
Re: The dialect pushers
One particular publishing house has been "coining it in" with their ESL materials (Oxford) in which they attempt to train ESL learners into saying (for example) opposite instead of across from , into preferring they didn't get it on straight away to they didn't get along right away , walking along ...
- Fri Sep 01, 2023 6:54 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: The dialect pushers
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1026
Re: The dialect pushers
Ain't a lot of that due to the "standard" being American Engrish, so the other dialects are needed to be stated before someone comes in, takes all the "u" letters away and swaps the "s" for "z"?
Oh and that idiotic date format.
Oh and that idiotic date format.
- Sat Aug 26, 2023 5:31 pm
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Fundraising/Donor love
- Replies: 74
- Views: 18676
Re: Fundraising/Donor love
Here we go... here we go again... Wikipedia is not for sale . A personal appeal from Jimmy Wales Please don't scroll past this 1-minute read. This Saturday, 26 August, I ask you to reflect on the number of times you visited Wikipedia in the past year, the value you got from it, and whether you're ab...
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 2:36 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: BrownHairedGirl
- Replies: 711
- Views: 148263
Re: BrownHairedGirl
Oh her stuff was posted 29 minutes before the phase ended. Didn't someone complain about basically doing that a few days ago? She did it at previous cases, yes. Even though I'm not participating, I need an extension... Is there some point at which this Schrodinger's participant overloads the hypocr...
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:01 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: BrownHairedGirl
- Replies: 711
- Views: 148263
Re: BrownHairedGirl
Oh her stuff was posted 29 minutes before the phase ended. Didn't someone complain about basically doing that a few days ago?
- Mon Jul 31, 2023 4:16 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: BrownHairedGirl
- Replies: 711
- Views: 148263
- Wed Jul 26, 2023 6:55 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Rolling "Russia fines WMF yet again" Thread
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2422
Re: Rolling "Russia fines WMF yet again" Thread
This is where the ruWiki discussion about Drbug has been moved to.
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 4:10 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: BrownHairedGirl
- Replies: 711
- Views: 148263
Re: BrownHairedGirl
With the only decline vote so far switching to accept, this looks pretty clearly headed for a full case. The flak Paul August got for his attempt to enforce the civility probation (notwithstanding his silly, overly literal rationale for thinking he was unable to lift his own block) confirms that th...
- Thu Jul 13, 2023 5:32 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Italian abuses and vendetta. Gitz6666 globally locked
- Replies: 195
- Views: 26031
Re: Italian abuses and vendetta. Gitz6666 globally locked
... the banner on that usertalk page for Muenzer75: Libera la cultura. Dona il tuo 5×1000 a Wikimedia Italia. Scrivi 94039910156. What's that all about? GoogleTL puts it as: Free the culture. Donate your 5×1000 to Wikimedia Italia . Write 94039910156. which makes about as much sense as the Italian t...
- Wed Jul 12, 2023 6:01 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Rolling "Russia fines WMF yet again" Thread
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2422
Re: Rolling "Russia fines WMF yet again" Thread
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/20 ... wn-ruwiki/
It seems that "a prominent Russian Wikipedian editor" has forked the Russian Wikipedia onto a Kremlin-approved thingamyjig.
It seems that "a prominent Russian Wikipedian editor" has forked the Russian Wikipedia onto a Kremlin-approved thingamyjig.
- Sat Apr 22, 2023 6:55 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
- Replies: 1586
- Views: 494930
Re: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
So when is he going to get done for kidnap and imprisonment?Midsize Jake wrote: ↑Sat Apr 22, 2023 3:22 amI think there might have been a half-second glimpse of Mr. Smiley towards the end, in Nicky's front room while Nicky's lawyer was talking, but I wouldn't swear to it.
- Thu Apr 13, 2023 6:18 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Half As Interesting: "Wikipedia's Supreme Court"
- Replies: 9
- Views: 228
Half As Interesting: "Wikipedia's Supreme Court"
Moderator's note: Months later, this thread was split from the more generalized topic into which this video was initially popped.
I knew there was a generalised topic to pop this video into:
I knew there was a generalised topic to pop this video into:
- Sun Apr 09, 2023 4:59 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Jimbo asks Bradv if he encouraged paid editing
- Replies: 137
- Views: 8392
Re: Jimbo asks Bradv if he encouraged paid editing
Are Wiki"experts" even active? The website stuff seems to tail off in 2015-2016...
- Fri Apr 07, 2023 2:16 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: US Supreme Court brushes off Wikimedia Foundation
- Replies: 2
- Views: 419
Re: US Supreme Court brushes off Wikimedia Foundation
I wonder how much money the WMF wasted on that.
- Sun Mar 26, 2023 5:35 pm
- Forum: Non-Wikimedia Wiki Sites
- Topic: UmaxVision
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2478
- Fri Mar 17, 2023 3:57 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 791
- Views: 419929
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
DYK that Mablethorpe is only two miles away from Miami Beach.
- Sat Mar 04, 2023 11:04 am
- Forum: Non-Wikimedia Wiki Sites
- Topic: updates from encycloreader
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2852
Re: updates from encycloreader
ORandy from Boise wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 6:43 amL — R R Ywiki-reviewer wrote: ↑Sat Mar 04, 2023 4:15 amI like the idea in theory, but who is the final gatekeeper on what is added?
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- Sun Feb 26, 2023 5:41 pm
- Forum: Non-Wikimedia Wiki Sites
- Topic: updates from encycloreader
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2852
Re: updates from encycloreader
My apologies.
- Sun Feb 26, 2023 8:34 am
- Forum: Non-Wikimedia Wiki Sites
- Topic: updates from encycloreader
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2852
Re: updates from encycloreader
That either Citizendium really likes the Trump person, or they know how to do Google search optimisation better than Wikipedia. Oh and some other stuff that probably is of no concern.
- Thu Feb 16, 2023 3:41 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930639
Re: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
Weird, I just tried to edit a URL to go to a specific account and it worked for me.
- Tue Feb 14, 2023 3:46 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 822896
- Tue Feb 14, 2023 2:24 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Universal CoC
- Replies: 290
- Views: 23387
Re: Universal CoC
Hey, they narrowly avoided a 'crat chat.
- Fri Jan 20, 2023 8:44 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Vector 2022 skin
- Replies: 121
- Views: 18421
Re: Vector 2022 skin
If I half the width of the browser screen, then the white space disappears (in IP mode as I can't be arsed to log in). The TOC change will take some getting used to, but in the meantime it just means I go there less.
- Mon Jan 09, 2023 7:08 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519202
Re: News from RFA
Over 70% of the crats opined on this chat within 25 hours of it being opened. I would say that's impressive, given how slow some of the previous ones have been.
EDIT: and only two of the 'crats (Deskana and MBisanz, both last editing in May) haven't been around in the last month.
EDIT: and only two of the 'crats (Deskana and MBisanz, both last editing in May) haven't been around in the last month.
- Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:48 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519202
Re: News from RFA
With four hours left, it is down to a 69% approval rating.
... not nice.
... not nice.
- Fri Jan 06, 2023 5:25 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519202
Re: News from RFA
They've done their minimum edits for the next five years, so can go AFK again.casualdejekyll wrote: ↑Fri Jan 06, 2023 5:15 pmAnyone want to take bets on whether Cecropia will show up? Given the stink that was thrown last time.