Wikipediocracy

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Things have randomly improved now, I wonder how long for.

I spoke too soon.

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Today the servers have been a lot slower than usual, and I've been getting quite a few Internal Server 500 errors.

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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...

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There now appears to be UCoCk elections for co-ordinators or something now link

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:57 am
This is a daft post

Well it wouldn't be an Arb case without him commenting, sounding like AI wrote it.

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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...

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Is it safe for Smiley to come out now?

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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 ...

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Robert McClenon throws his non-admin hat into the ring again.

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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...

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It hath begun.

Already throwing their... hat? mop? credibility? into the ring is... ToBeFree

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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...

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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...

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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).

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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...

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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...

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My ublock origin updated and the Youtube Adblockblock seems to have disappeared.

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That's a separate "motion" regarding Kolya Butternut being unblocked, presumably so they wouldn't continue to talk about Flyer22Frozen or whomever it was.

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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...

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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...

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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?

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Just have them slap that error 451 code on the page for UK visitors.

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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...

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Ming wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 02, 2023 3:26 pm
Being that potato chips are an American invention, Ming thinks not.

Wikipedia disagrees.

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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 ...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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Oh her stuff was posted 29 minutes before the phase ended. Didn't someone complain about basically doing that a few days ago?

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 31, 2023 3:57 pm
Is BHG EVER going to show all of the purported evidence that she just has piles of lying around?

I suspect she won't.

She will, about 0 minutes before the evidence phase closes.

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This is where the ruWiki discussion about Drbug has been moved to.

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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...

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... 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...

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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.

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Midsize Jake wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 22, 2023 3:22 am
I 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.

So when is he going to get done for kidnap and imprisonment?

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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:

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Are Wiki"experts" even active? The website stuff seems to tail off in 2015-2016...

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I wonder how much money the WMF wasted on that.

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https://umaxvision.com/wiki/en/football

A rather informative article.

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DYK that Mablethorpe is only two miles away from Miami Beach.

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Randy from Boise wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 04, 2023 6:43 am

wiki-reviewer wrote: ↑
Sat Mar 04, 2023 4:15 am
I like the idea in theory, but who is the final gatekeeper on what is added?
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My apologies.

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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.

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Weird, I just tried to edit a URL to go to a specific account and it worked for me.

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Ming wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 14, 2023 4:52 am
List of wedding chapels in Las Vegas (T-H-L) whose 2nd deletion discussion features an epic battle between Fram and Doncram.

Did Fram change their name? I don't see Fram on the 2nd deletion discussion at all.

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Hey, they narrowly avoided a 'crat chat.

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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.

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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.

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With four hours left, it is down to a 69% approval rating.

... not nice.

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casualdejekyll wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 06, 2023 5:15 pm
Anyone want to take bets on whether Cecropia will show up? Given the stink that was thrown last time.

They've done their minimum edits for the next five years, so can go AFK again.

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