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I keep saying: don't attack Wales directly, and don't write screeds for public consumption. Gather your dirt and send it to the people who make Wikipedia rule: Google. They made him and they can unmake him. But the mighty G00gz0r has tried, and failed, to clip lil Jimmy Sunshine's wings. It tried t...

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Also check out [i]The Confession[/i].

Besides great suspense and drama you will also see a Jimbo doppleganger get his just rewards.

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It's interesting what will collapse first the British Monarchy or Wikipedia? :blink: Well the BM has rode the tide of history for over a millennium, while WP is already in a steep decline after little more than a decade. The smart bets are on the overbreds. Very few institutions have outlived it. W...

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Man, Prioryman has really gone nutz.

Sorry, it had to be stated for the record,

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That was how Veropedia was supposed to work. It didn't last much longer than a year.... Veropedia was funded by an out-of-work chain smoker. I would hesitate to scrap the idea on that one data point, especially if a serious entity (like Amazon, Google, Associated Press, the New York Public Library,...

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Didn't this happen at least once before?

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"Quit Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation, Jimbo. Focus on Wikia and CiviliNation and Quora and that fail-ready thing that Lily Cole is launching." Yes, Jimmy, please abdicate. Spend more time with your new family so maybe it won't end up like your old one. Of course he won't. And even in the un...

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Indeed, Jimmy illustrates much better than Paula Deen the insidiousness of racism. Of how it is so often concealed beneath a smug, genteel veneer., waiting for just the right circumstances or unguarded moment to break through its soft shell. A bit of political incorrectness is not racism, I have re...

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There was a NASCAR driver a few months ago that was suspended for describing a quick fix to his car as nigger-rigging. It's still a common phrase in the South. We more sophistimicated Southern folk prefer to use the term Afro-Engineering instead. Not only is it more polite, but more useful since it...

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My mistake, sorry. That's ok, mortal. :rolleyes: A bit of political incorrectness is not racism, I have really hated how the whole Deen thing has played out, tbh. Me neither. Paula gets nailed to the walla, while lil Jimmy Sunshine (once again) gets a free press pass. Now granted, of the two she is...

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The ED article on Danny includes a link to the post at archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20120210155321/http://allswool.blogspot.com/2008/03/money-for-nothing-chicks-for-free.html ... but I did not see anything like that in the comments. That's because it's not there...That's the Money For No...

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See "dannyisme"s comment here: http://gawker.com/391755/jimmy-wales-welcomes-ordinary-arabs-to-the-internet. Clear as day. Here is what may be the original blog's post ripped by a spammer: http://threecreditreportingya.blogspot.com/2011/09/free-credit-history-check-butte.html Well done...and quickl...

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The Paula Deen ruckus reminded me of a possible incident involving Wikiland's dear leader. Buried in the comments on http://allswool.blogspot.com,Danny Wool's blog he made a brief, passing mention of once trying to arrange a flight for his Jimbeauness, but the king stated he did not wish to fly Delt...

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Reminds me of a scene from one of my favorite flicks
And also how hot Jamie Lee used to be.

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Wuckypedia- A donkey punch to the head of knowledge.

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Before this I thought the new and improved Yahoo with Nutrasweet was making a mistake.
Now I know it is.
One use his Jiminess has-
Negative barometer.

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Long have I advocated turning over WP's governance to bots.
Afterall, they could hardly do a worse job.

In the meantime...

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Pretty remarkable. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=next&oldid=554951112 I think no area of the entire Wikimedia movement would benefit more from easier participation than commons. The solution is to overwhelm the people who aren't doing their jobs there with peo...

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Synopsis: Somebody was prevented from a "happy, collateral result" of promoting their blog with a Wikipedia page, which coincidentally shares the name of a neologism of dubious notability... Just out of curiosity, would you say that the majority of active Wikipedi(an/ot)s equate attempts to use a b...

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Update: I agreed to the arbcom's condition that I never again add doxing links to Wikipedia space. However, I did not agree to their condition that I accept that I had violated WP:HARASS or that my behavior was a continuation of behavior documented in the Cla68-SV-FM case. The ArbCom has told me th...

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Here is a subject worthy of its own subform.

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In fairness to the Beebs, one of its commentators, Bill Thompson, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5286458.stm,was one of the first in the major media to raise questions about Wikipedia's governance. And even the first to recognize the cabal's existence- If Wikipedia can find a way to combine c...

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The question for us is what mechanisms does Wikipedia have to prevent bigots and trolls doing this to any article? You mean how does it prevent the inmates from taking over the asylum? Too late...way too late. Sorry. That horse long ago escaped from his maximum security stable, kidnapped three youn...

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That's niz. I was quoted in an LA Times article back in 07 . It will be 99.9% forgotten in a week or less. But blog it...whathell. :deadhorse: The fascinating thing is that even in 2007, people were hinting that nearly all the obvious articles had been written and editors should focus on improving ...

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Mature and sane humans don't last long at Wikipedia; they walk away, or get banned when they object to the idiocy. Or they stay too long and cease to be mature and sane. Which, sadly, has clearly happened to my chums here. :crying: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTf1U_LB4zY,The Knight of the Mirror...

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That's niz.
I was quoted in an LA Times article back in 07.

It will be 99.9% forgotten in a week or less.
But blog it...whathell.

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Utopian visions are always flawed, but often parts of the vision inspire innovation and social change. I salute utopians, and say, "Where are my rejuvenation treatments, dammit?!" I prefer dystopians. They are more entertaining, their heads usually contain less air and their works are more effectiv...

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Indeed.
Please tell us, father, why is this dysfunctional fuckwit different from all the others?

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Indeed.
Here's El Reg's take on the matter.

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Good post, Anroth. It's yet another example of how the Wikimedia Foundation means quite different things when they talk about "community", and when they talk about "community" (wink wink, nudge nudge). Tis like unto the so-called Democracy of ancient Athens, or the early republic of these United St...

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OK, so the sysop versus content creator war of 2007 or whenever was won by the Dark Side of the Wiki-Force. Now there comes this: Piotrus , a prolific good content creator, has been nominated for adminship: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Piotrus 2 . User:Giano , a prolific good content creator wh...

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Maggie the milk snatcher was one small step removed from a Randroid.
And Jimmy Galt Wales is not a very good Randroid.

No surprises here.

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This is a job for Jimbeau! For http://wp-fnord.livejournal.com/20236.html?style=mine#comments,history has shown that this is clearly the sort of article he is interested in, and only he can start it so it will stick . Someone please bring this matter to his god kingly attention...Or as Liam Neeson p...

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Until I saw that, honestly no, I though Karma was being a bit paranoid in thinking Jimmy was out to get him IRL. Fortunately, Jimbo was too much of a poltroon to go through with it. Far as you know. Only thing, Andy disappeared so completely, I haven't been able to contact him for his side of this....

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This is the worst ARBcomm since old <s>fuck</s> friend Fred Bauder retired. Truly a big step backwards for what the communitah calls governance . I beg to differ. All of them, every one of them, has been cowardly and worthless. Their handling of Will Beback and Cirt were not what I would call "refo...

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As I see it, the biggest downside is not being paid enough to deal with the mind-numbing, soul-crunching suckitude and fuckwittery of WP and its toxic culture.

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Reminds me of those old ads they used to run, Come to Shell for answers.

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RFA was broken when I arrived back in 05.
Perhaps broken is not the right term, though, for something which was dysfunctional from the git go.

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Ah, channeling Dilbert's pointy haired boss again I see...
Next he'll be giving diet and exercise advice.

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Kudos to Cla for refusing to kowtow to the http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/482481/Committee-of-Public-Safety,Comité de salut public! :applause: This is the worst ARBcomm since old <s>fuck</s> friend Fred Bauder retired. Truly a big step backwards for what the communitah calls governance .

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Weakypedia- Repeat an error often enough and it becomes a [fact].

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A criminal you say...he wasn't even convicted of anything! I guess the old, liberal notion of "Innocent until proven guilty" has gotten flushed along with proportionate punishment. If our legal system can offer no better recourse than those of Russia, China or Iran, then let the exodus begin!

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Alas, poor Karmafist. He was guilty of two crimes the wikipediots do not forgive- Having a real sense of humor and calling em as he saw em. I bet you didn't know that Karmafist was the focus of a plot--by Jimmy Wales and Steve Dunlop. They openly talked about "going meatspace" on him and trying to ...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Golden_Retriever&curid=309643&diff=44107625&oldid=43971609,my fav edit summary . :bow: :banana: :XD Lord, Karmafest, what a character. Can block or deletion summaries be included as well here? Karmafist . I remember (presumably) him. (Dramafist, Karmafest.....

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You know well as I that the l33t can get pretty much anything they want.
Besides-Cheetos are sooo 07, Doritos are teh new finger-staining hotness!

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I'm an honorary member of the Groucho Club...

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my fav edit summary.

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Another thing to consider when considering Draconian laws, or any laws, is the Law of Unintended Consequences. Instead of despair and suicide, our best and brightest might migrate. Some of them to hostile foreign nations in need of technical talent. Suddenly Putin's cyberdroogs and China's PLA "Blac...

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Amen, Brother!

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If you examine the history of the project, I think you will find that it was Jimbo's own rudeness and callousness toward other people that set the tone for the general callousness found dotted all across the site's active contributor base. A fish rots from the head down. :applause: Jimbozo, reap wh...

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