Wikipediocracy

Bielle

However, quite a few Wikipedians have an authoritarian streak; they of course are the ones who tend to become abusive admins. I thought we were talking about their perspective on their country's government. If we're talking about their perspective on their WikiGovernment, then yes, that moves them ...

Bielle

Vigilant wrote:Jesus.
The super-duper creepy look on his face in that picture.

I wonder when he last had his thyroid checked.

Bielle

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-October/079255.html Much gnashing of teeth and rending of hair. The approved wiki-wear in Canada will be sack-clothes and ashes. I'd consider attending that one. I can drive to it in half a day; I don't need to deal with border guards or custom...

Bielle

I invited myself. The request took about 24 hours to be approved, so perhaps I am a probationer of sorts. At the time, I liked all the people who were involved; I've been back a couple of times to see what was new. There would be one or two updating posts, but not much else so far. Like Zoloft, I am...

Bielle

I am unsurprised that there is a skew towards female use. (1) The age range of NHS patients is of course skewed towards the elderly, and there are more elderly females than males. (2) there is the NHS provision for maternity and associated care (3) it is well known that women tend to seek medical i...

Bielle

Seen on a t-shirt near Falkirk in Scotland and posted by a friend on Facebook: What do we want? A cure for Tourettes. When do we want it? Cunt. And so it goes . . . I was roasted like a Rock Cornish hen for a similar joke on this site just a few months ago. *sighs* I may be toast instead.

Bielle

I very much doubt that Jimbo Wales would consider me to be anything other than discardable, very far from "important". I of course feel exactly the same about him; some things will never change. I do on the other hand find it difficult to come to terms with WPO's apparent obsession with me. On the ...

Bielle

Have we anything to learn from this? I haven't the time or the patience to read enough to find out for sure, but I would put money on "No". (Not much money, but some.)

Bielle

Inevitable, surely. Surprised it lasted that long really. They should've included an exploding dye pack inside it. "Inevitable"? That's a sad indictment. After all, Hitch made it across Canada and Germany without, as far as I know, any destructive incidents at all. At least Hitch wasn't shot, or do...

Bielle

Triptych wrote:Yay! Bielle is back!

I have been here all along, though I appreciate the enthusiasm. I am a reader more than a writer. If someone has already made my points, I've never seen any need to change the words around just to get my avatar on screen.

Bielle

His wife is one of, if not "the" richest wome/an in the world, and that is the best they can do for teeth?

Mod note: it was bad enough that I submitted this thread to one picture of Prince Philip, so removing the duplicate. Sorry -- Hex

Bielle

I had thought Twitter's only grace was its limitation on message length.

Bielle

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote:
Bielle wrote:Pssst: Hillary
Oh, crap. I can't believe I didn't catch that. Thanks to Zoloft for fixing it.

On my screen, only the first post has been corrected.
The one "L" Hilary is a . . .

Bielle

Pssst: Hillary

Bielle

That background "music" makes me twitchy, so I find it hard(er) to concentrate. The whole message reminds of the very early anti-marijuana films, the ones we laughed at so much. I like Kickstarter projects. I have supported a few, mostly set up by musicians, so I am not as skeptical as many will be....

Bielle

In 2012 I ran up against Fred " http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Attack_sites/Proposed_decision&oldid=159861452#Redirect_to_Clown,redirect them to clowns " Bauder (founding Arbcom committee member and a Colorado lawyer who lost his license after solicitin...

Bielle

In this sentence (boldface mine): "In August 2012, English Wikipedia editor “MZMcBride” wrote an op-ed for the Signpost, the site’s internal project news magazine, slating bad software development at the WMF. " what does "slating" mean? Good question. I thought that I might have introduced a typo d...

Bielle

In this sentence (boldface mine):

"In August 2012, English Wikipedia editor “MZMcBride” wrote an op-ed for the Signpost, the site’s internal project news magazine, slating bad software development at the WMF. "

what does "slating" mean?

Bielle

Only one person continued to give him 100% support after that: Jimbo. There were a few others, too. Idiots, all. Meanwhile, is Farmbrough really that perplexed by the difference between "form" and "from"? I can see making the mistake once, but it appears he made it twice in the same paragraph. It's...

Bielle

The theory of the Ref Desks (And how often do comments on WP come down to this?) is just fine. Originally one desk, they are now 5 or 6. The desk/desks were supposed to answer questions posed by content writers and answered by others who were better at googling or who had access to better libraries....

Bielle

Is he really short, or is every one else really tall? I have never noticed this before.

Bielle

There must be something I am missing here. If you don't put up photos on FB, and you register with a new email address and then a fake name (which I have done, and so have a number of my friends), are we not "hidden"? Indeed, but in your case, you've not done anything to attract the ire of someone....

Bielle

Ello is also gaining popularity with Celebrities. They can create a persona and tell their friends but not get bombarded by fans and paparazzi. You can do the same thing on FB. There must be something I am missing here. If you don't put up photos on FB, and you register with a new email address and...

Bielle

I still cannot work out why the need to use your own name is a problem. I know many accounts that are not in the person's real name; others that are held by 10-, 11- and 12-year olds when you are not supposed to have one until you are 13. You're not reading the mass media. Drag queens, as it turns ...

Bielle

I still cannot work out why the need to use your own name is a problem. I know many accounts that are not in the person's real name; others that are held by 10-, 11- and 12-year olds when you are not supposed to have one until you are 13.

Bielle

I always have a copy of Strunk and White near me. It is also fun to completely ignore its teachings when you wish to annoy. Strunk and White is very good to absolutely necessary advice for communicating with a certain set of people; for others, it ranges from adequate to appalling. It would be wron...

Bielle

I always have a copy of Strunk and White near me. It is also fun to completely ignore its teachings when you wish to annoy. Strunk and White is very good to absolutely necessary advice for communicating with a certain set of people; for others, it ranges from adequate to appalling. It would be wron...

Bielle

Five syllables here Should this be six, or seven? How, now, to finish? Haiku in English At its most minimal, haiku may occasionally consist of a single word: tundra Cor van den Heuvel (the window-washer's pail, 1963) core John Stevenson (Live Again, 2009) radish Category: Single word haiku in Latvi...

Bielle

Jim wrote:And, because no poetry thread would be complete without it - my favourite "repeating word haiku" (with Greek subtitles - there's that Australia Council influence again...)

It is the Greek subtitles that are the making of this poem.

Bielle

I can't speak for everyone but I think this is a pretty profound statement and is exactly true. You missed that I was highlighting a phrase. The "barf" applied to the words in bold, exactly the kind of business jargon crud that the WMF's new leader should be striving to avoid. GyV_UG60dD4 Great "We...

Bielle

Vigilant wrote:

As far as I am concerned, that's a pretty good explanation -akin to the little people who run around inside TV sets.

Bielle

Nothing asked about design, colour or legibility, and you can tell.

Sorry, but hard as the result makes it to believe, they did consider colour.

Bielle

Alison wrote:
Hersch wrote:B of A is referring her to a new third party, which collects protection money [...]
Why does this sound so much like a shakedown? Ugh

Because it is one?

Bielle

One member from a non-Wikimedia Foundation organization that uses MediaWiki or other software created, maintained, or used by the Wikimedia Foundation. This member will be appointed by the Board for a two-year term. Terms will be renewable once consecutively for a maximum of four consecutive years....

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Scholarly journal retracts 60 articles, smashes ‘peer review ring’ ... In 2013, the editor of JVC, Ali H. Nayfeh, became aware of people using “fabricated identities” to manipulate an online system called SAGE Track by which scholars review the work of other scholars prior to publication. ... After...

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Now the mainstream media has picked up the story. Wikipedia finally bans middle-aged pervert Examiner.com; June 30, 2014 Katydidit, a man in his late 40's, apparently knew that a site dedicated to a teen-oriented show like iCarly would count many young girls among its users. He began to engage inti...

Bielle

I'm not getting your point. I guess my point is that most Westerners have no idea of how deeply the millions of adherents of Shia Islam feel their religion. 4YH2RdR2EcM As a history buff, I am quite aware of how fervent Shiites are. As an agnostic, I am unimpressed to the point of mockery. I am als...

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From the discussions those editing the page weren't in the business of doing anything from a NPOV but were inserting POV into what purports to be an encyclopedia. Additionally they were doing so from a position of malice. I have no problem with them inserting opinion into a blog post, and although ...

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Yah, those are killer diffs, TDA. I like the 5th one where Nagle just switches out the "musical artist" infobox for the "criminal" one. Yeah there's genuine animus there in those, it's not just an editor trying to make a better encyclopedia article. A judge is going to be interested in the facts, b...

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PR News Channel: http://www.prnewschannel.com/2014/06/19/lawsuit-rogue-wikipedia-editors-conspired-to-manipulate-wikipedia-pages-to-ruin-reputation-of-philanthropist-charity-he-co-founded/,Lawsuit: Rogue Wikipedia editors conspired to manipulate Wikipedia pages to ruin reputation of philanthropist,...

Bielle

Strip away all the AI technospeak and this sounds like Dungeons & Dragons players debating what could be the possibly worst enemy a band of adventurers could run across inside some cavern somewhere. Hah. It also looks like AN/I on any given day. In short, inexplicable. For years I've wondered if tr...

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Nobody has yet posted the link to the WikiConference USA budget: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_US-NYC/WikiConference_USA_2014#Budget_and_resources The New York Law School waived "over $48,000" in venue costs. Should anyone believe the claim that New York Law School had nothing to do wit...

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Incoming from sj at meta, he has registered as sj' (we only allow membernames of 3 to 20 characters), and I have activated that account. Zoloft, is there any reason to announce that someone notable has signed up? I can think of several reasons not to. When they are obvious, as in using their WP nam...

Bielle

The Adversary wrote:Would you elect cooks for life, having to eat anything they serve the rest of your days?

Sounds like marriage to me.

Bielle

HRIP7 wrote:Highlights from today's IRC office hours on the VE:

I wonder if WMF pays Risker for her VE cheerleading job.

Bielle

Writ Keeper, it's not standard practice because it doesn't usually work. It didn't fall into disuse because everyone decided it was disproportionate. Reporting someone to their ISP because they misuse the service that ISP provides is fully proportionate and rational. If someone happens to work for ...

Bielle

Took me a while, but I knew I'd find IT Newyorkbrad, coming down hard on fucking with other people's real lives... "...in extraordinary circumstances, a user who engages in egregiously disruptive off-wiki conduct endangering the project and its participants may be subject to sanction. An example is...

Bielle

Poetlister wrote:
EricBarbour wrote:
3. Is contacting EB a legal threat?
On Wikipedia EVERYTHING is a "legal threat", if someone powerful doesn't like you.
No doubt Eric is right, but obviously it's not a legal threat in any common sense interpretation.

"Common sense", not Commons' sense.

Bielle

Stierlitz wrote:Money right down the shitter.....

How much? Enquiring minds want to know.

Bielle

Mr Sinclair's signature seems to suggest he, and Lila, and the WMF are as one. Does he have a job with the WMF now? I thought he originally posted a disclaimer that he was definitely not to be considered as representing Lila, or her views, in any way, shape or form. This is what happens when progra...

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