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- Tue Nov 07, 2023 9:44 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia, Overwolf, and NPOV
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2702
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 1:26 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Elon Musk offers 1 billion USD if Wikipedia changes its name to Dickipedia
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3005
Re: Elon Musk offers 1 billion USD if Wikipedia changes its name to Dickipedia
But seriously...the post is pretty much on par with many of Musk's posts. Just....how does someone like this become successful in the first place. scratching my head...
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 1:20 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: The "Jess Wade Problem" Problem
- Replies: 94
- Views: 15300
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 1:07 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: WikiConference North America 2023
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11214
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 1:04 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia, Overwolf, and NPOV
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2702
Re: Wikipedia, Overwolf, and NPOV
Wikipedia doesn't have any editors in the usual sense of the word. There's nobody who has the authority to review an article and tell the author to go back and fix it. Well, no editors as such but lots of processes (DYK/GA/FA/OTD/ITN etc.) where people tell other people to fix things all the time.
- Tue Sep 27, 2022 11:51 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Banned Wikipedia editor runs for Congress
- Replies: 141
- Views: 12626
Re: Banned Wikipedia editor runs for Congress
Too used to twitter and hitting "like" buttons......sigh
- Mon Mar 15, 2021 11:44 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: The Shaky Ground Truths of Wikipedia
- Replies: 6
- Views: 438
Re: The Shaky Ground Truths of Wikipedia
It takes this article a while to get to the point, but once there, it's a good point that we're all mostly familiar with: ...What gives Wikipedia a central place in data heaven is that popular algorithms that lead us around by the nose go to the site to learn. AI reinforces whatever biases are put ...
- Thu Mar 04, 2021 7:15 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Yet another 14 year old hoax
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1438
Re: Yet another 14 year old hoax
the names sound really cool though. Next time I write up a D&D or Call of Cthulhu campaign or module I might used them
- Fri Feb 05, 2021 2:32 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Katherine Maher to step down
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2779
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:33 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Raining on Wikipedia’s anniversary parade
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1085
Re: Raining on Wikipedia’s anniversary parade.
Wikipedia has in some respects impoverished knowledge. It has driven good, reliable data sources out of existence. Mistakes (whether good faith, extreme POV or vandalism) in Wikipedia have polluted other sources. What good reliable data sources are you referring to? Reference works that have ceased...
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 1:50 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Raining on Wikipedia’s anniversary parade
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1085
Re: Raining on Wikipedia’s anniversary parade.
Wikipedia has in some respects impoverished knowledge. It has driven good, reliable data sources out of existence. Mistakes (whether good faith, extreme POV or vandalism) in Wikipedia have polluted other sources. What good reliable data sources are you referring to? Reference works that have ceased...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 11:49 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Raining on Wikipedia’s anniversary parade
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1085
Re: Raining on Wikipedia’s anniversary parade.
What good reliable data sources are you referring to?Poetlister wrote: ↑Sun Jan 17, 2021 5:59 pmWikipedia has in some respects impoverished knowledge. It has driven good, reliable data sources out of existence. Mistakes (whether good faith, extreme POV or vandalism) in Wikipedia have polluted other sources.
- Thu Dec 24, 2020 5:34 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: A reminder.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1331
Re: A reminder.
I feel the need to say something I believe I've said before on one of these forums. If you want to go edit Wikipedia, go edit Wikipedia. The only person who can stop you from doing that is you. If you let the forces of injustice we all have seen here that run Wikipedia change that belief, then you ...
- Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:11 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Arbcom Elections 2020
- Replies: 372
- Views: 20073
Re: Arbcom Elections 2020
Guerillero's low placing is likely due to not being well so well known anymore. As an ex-arb and a current clerk I had more or less assumed he'd get in. He has the highest number of neutral votes, which is a pretty strong indicator that people just didn't know what to think of him. He did respond t...
- Mon Dec 14, 2020 1:34 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: "Hasten The Day" ....?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1678
Re: "Hasten The Day" ....?
I would like to read Crows Nest on this because he's given it a lot of attention. Perhaps somebody would like to bring it up on Reddit. You could bring it up. There's no barrier to entry to post on reddit. You literally can create a new account for every post you make there. They don't care. I am r...
- Tue Dec 01, 2020 11:39 am
- Forum: Non-Wikimedia Wiki Sites
- Topic: Citizendium - Do you love lamp?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2254
Re: Citizendium - Do you love lamp?
Was reading some of the back-story here: https://arstechnica.com/features/2007/02/citizendium/ The USP is apparently "gentle expert guidance". Doesn’t sound promising: it’s probably quicker for the expert just to to write the article than try to guide a non-expert to do so (isn’t this just Nupedia ...
- Mon Nov 30, 2020 1:49 am
- Forum: Non-Wikimedia Wiki Sites
- Topic: Citizendium - Do you love lamp?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2254
Re: Citizendium - Do you love lamp?
hadn't looked over there in a while... it's super sad. An average of 1-3 users a day, 1-20 edits a day. Why bother. Yes, a great pity. The Internet needs something like what Citizendium ought to, and probably could, have been. why Because it would be vastly better than Wikipedia. Maybe with far few...
- Fri Nov 20, 2020 12:52 pm
- Forum: Non-Wikimedia Wiki Sites
- Topic: Citizendium - Do you love lamp?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2254
Re: Citizendium - Do you love lamp?
hadn't looked over there in a while... it's super sad. An average of 1-3 users a day, 1-20 edits a day. Why bother. Yes, a great pity. The Internet needs something like what Citizendium ought to, and probably could, have been. why Because it would be vastly better than Wikipedia. Maybe with far few...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 8:43 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Arbcom Elections 2020
- Replies: 372
- Views: 20073
Re: Arbcom Elections 2020
There was discussion of this like two days ago on-wiki. My theory (because I've done it as well) as that a lot of people wait to see if there's enough good candidates that they could support to fill all the open seats. When they don't feel like they see that by the last day or two they go ahead put...
- Wed Nov 18, 2020 8:30 pm
- Forum: Non-Wikimedia Wiki Sites
- Topic: Citizendium - Do you love lamp?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2254
Re: Citizendium - Do you love lamp?
whyPoetlister wrote: ↑Sat Nov 14, 2020 12:10 pmYes, a great pity. The Internet needs something like what Citizendium ought to, and probably could, have been.Beeblebrox wrote: ↑Sat Nov 14, 2020 3:51 amhadn't looked over there in a while... it's super sad. An average of 1-3 users a day, 1-20 edits a day. Why bother.
- Sat Oct 03, 2020 9:55 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: The deletionists have won
- Replies: 217
- Views: 12085
- Sat Aug 15, 2020 10:34 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Foundation board member James Heilman is forking Wikipedia
- Replies: 111
- Views: 6347
Re: Foundation board member James Heilman is forking Wikipedia
Can anyone identify a fork that has been successful to date?
- Fri Aug 14, 2020 10:53 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Foundation board member James Heilman is forking Wikipedia
- Replies: 111
- Views: 6347
Re: Foundation board member James Heilman is forking Wikipedia
He isn't breaking the arbcom ruling by doing what he wants on some other website not in any way under the control of arbcom or the WMF. Circumventing it, yes, but not in a manner that violates the ruling. Splitting hairs, especially for a board member with fiduciary duty. I don't see how it is hair...
- Wed Jul 08, 2020 1:57 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Citizendium shutting down?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1032
Re: Citizendium shutting down?
Quick, somebody log into Citizendium and write some reliably sourced content that Larry has come out as a raving right-wing nutbag! Does anyone here have a Citizendium account? I seem to recall you had to apply to join it and be approved. That's right, and you have to use a real, verified name, as ...
- Tue May 26, 2020 4:14 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: The rise of Wikipedia as a source of medical information
- Replies: 114
- Views: 2363
Re: The rise of Wikipedia as a source of medical information
Medical information is of course one of the areas where Wikipedia can easily do the most harm. It's vaguely reassuring that there are qualified doctors working in the area, but the only responsible thing to do is fully protect every single article in that area, broadly construed, and only allow ide...
- Sat Apr 18, 2020 12:20 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia stats post lockdown
- Replies: 8
- Views: 396
Re: Wikipedia stats post lockdown
Speaking for yourself then are you? That might describe a minority, but not alot of people.Death To Wikipedia wrote: ↑Sat Apr 18, 2020 11:24 amWikipedia is and always was an ultra niche hobby, simply a selfish distraction for most, and a means to an end for a few extremists bent on erasing traditional modes of learning.....
- Sat Mar 07, 2020 11:31 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Why doesn't Wikipediocracy allow guest posting?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3102
Re: Why does not Wikipedocracy allow anonymous Editing
8chan dudeVigilant wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 2:18 amCan we be the next 4chan?Midsize Jake wrote:there are a few phpBB forums that allow guest-posting. But generally speaking you get about 50 pure spam posts for every one that isn't spam, and of the ones that aren't spam, most of those are actually worse than spam.
- Wed Feb 12, 2020 9:18 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: BrownHairedGirl
- Replies: 711
- Views: 148261
- Thu Nov 21, 2019 5:11 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2019 Arbcom Election Time!
- Replies: 735
- Views: 32158
Re: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2019 Arbcom Election Time!
I cannot tell if User:SMcCandlish/Arbitration Committee Elections 2019 is a parody or not. It starts amusingly enough, supporting obviously ill-suited candidates with the rationale that their severe personality deficiencies are likely to be soothed by, rather than aggravated by, being on ArbCom. An...
- Fri Nov 15, 2019 1:41 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2019 Arbcom Election Time!
- Replies: 735
- Views: 32158
Re: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2019 Arbcom Election Time!
Arbitration on-wiki is very different from the real world. That's because what you people call "arbitration" is not actually arbitration. What happens in the arbitration process is more about virtue signalling and community value reinforcement than it is about issue adjudication. Generally, the par...
- Fri Nov 15, 2019 10:55 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2019 Arbcom Election Time!
- Replies: 735
- Views: 32158
Re: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2019 Arbcom Election Time!
I'd prefer that there were some people on ARBCOM with actual successful arbitration experience from the real world... The name of the committee is a misnomer. In the words of Kelly Martin, posted at WPO on Feb. 1, 2015: The ArbCom is in fact the disciplinary committee of an unincorporated voluntary...
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 8:01 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2019 Arbcom Election Time!
- Replies: 735
- Views: 32158
Re: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2019 Arbcom Election Time!
This is nuts. I threw in because I still didn't see enough obvious supports. Now my heads spinning. I know there's always a surge at the last minute, but 23 candidates is a lot. Nomination in the last moments tells a lot about a person. Last-day arrivals are by default untrustable for me. Oh I dunn...
- Wed Nov 13, 2019 7:57 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2019 Arbcom Election Time!
- Replies: 735
- Views: 32158
Re: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2019 Arbcom Election Time!
Just think of the election as a big warm friendly hot-tub and enjoy the rideBeeblebrox wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 7:10 amThis is nuts. I threw in because I still didn't see enough obvious supports. Now my heads spinning. I know there's always a surge at the last minute, but 23 candidates is a lot.
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 11:30 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2019 Arbcom Election Time!
- Replies: 735
- Views: 32158
Re: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2019 Arbcom Election T
Former Arb and current Oversighter Thryduulf has thrown his hat into the ring. Another easy winner; what's that leave, four open seats to be filled? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2019/Candidates/Thryduulf/Statement Interesting observation: I don't ...
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 11:28 pm
- Forum: Non-Wikimedia Wiki Sites
- Topic: Encyclosphere
- Replies: 307
- Views: 57353
Re: Encyclosphere
It amuses (well, saddens) me when Americans revise the anticommunist Pol Pot regime as communist...depths of stupid...sigh
- Fri Oct 18, 2019 8:42 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Request return of admin rights (GB fan)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 687
Re: Request return of admin rights (GB fan)
all's well that ends well....sighJans Hammer wrote:as you like it!Beeblebrox wrote:much ado about nothing
- Fri Oct 11, 2019 8:48 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Useless Wikipedia trivia
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2087
Re: Useless Wikipedia trivia
Wikipedia is knee deep in trivia. How many articles are there on ghost towns with zero population? Well, that they have zero population now doesn't necessarily make them uninteresting. Any more than the fact that Abraham Lincoln is now dead makes him uninteresting. The interesting bit is what were ...
- Thu Sep 26, 2019 8:01 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Fram's RFA
- Replies: 317
- Views: 8337
Re: Fram Request for Administration 2 — Now with more words!
8:30 am on the West coast of the USA and it's down to 68%. Fram is fucked. RfB P.S. With the strange bedfellows I have made, I'm now feeling more than a little nauseous myself... "nauseated" is a more exacting adjective than "nauseous". Also "strange bedfellows" has been a feature of all wikipedia ...
- Thu Sep 26, 2019 5:59 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Ritchie333
- Replies: 325
- Views: 27840
Re: Ritchie333
I dunno. The thought did cross my mind (only after my initial replies above) that some arbs and ex-arbs might well complain to T&S if I went too far. Now, on Wikipedia it is fairly clear what the rules are about off-wiki conduct and where various people draw the lines in various circumstances, but ...
- Sat Jul 13, 2019 10:34 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Fram blocked by User:WMFOffice for 1 year
- Replies: 3839
- Views: 209893
Re: Fram blocked by User:WMFOffice for 1 year
Oh yeah? Please enlighten us! Mods....maybe a new thread...Guido den Broeder wrote:Absolutely. Starting with some very dubious edits to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.Vigilant wrote:Doc James has a few things to answer for as well.
- Thu Jul 04, 2019 3:05 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Fram blocked by User:WMFOffice for 1 year
- Replies: 3839
- Views: 209893
Re: Fram blocked by User:WMFOffice for 1 year
Currently, 'arbitrators' are selected by having 100 random dipshits vote in a middle school style popularity contest for a smaller bunch of dipshits who have no education, training or experience in actual arbitration after which the even smaller group of 'elected' 'arbitrators' sit in judgement ove...
- Mon Jul 01, 2019 1:46 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Fram blocked by User:WMFOffice for 1 year
- Replies: 3839
- Views: 209893
Re: Fram blocked by User:WMFOffice for 1 year
It the end, it doesn't matter. I resigned the bit, tried to talk with the CEO and like a fool, didn't realize her position was just a title. She isn't in charge of anything and has no authority. The board runs the show, Katherine is a figurehead used for fundraising. Nothing against her, I'm sure s...
- Sun Jun 30, 2019 9:42 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Fram blocked by User:WMFOffice for 1 year
- Replies: 3839
- Views: 209893
Re: Fram blocked by User:WMFOffice for 1 year
Even if all participants behave in a perfectly civil manner, the majority are morons and the content will remain wildly inaccurate. Even if all participants behave in a perfectly civil manner, the majority are morons and the content will remain wildly inaccurate. Here's one fairly simple way for th...
- Sun Nov 11, 2018 11:05 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: This W&M alum is a Wikipedia wizard, recognized by Time
- Replies: 12
- Views: 624
Re: This W&M alum is a Wikipedia wizard, recognized by Time
No different from most flavours of reality TV....Kumioko wrote:I think it's funny how all these newspapers and magazines are trying to make a someone out of a nobody.
- Mon Aug 06, 2018 8:49 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Conservapedia: now worse than ever!
- Replies: 48
- Views: 17761
Re: Conservapedia: now worse than ever!
The article on Donald Trump tells us his nickname is "The Donald" in the lead, unlike the WP one. Conservapedia still seems to have active editing, but I don't recall if it is less or more active than a few years ago.
- Sun Aug 05, 2018 6:59 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Question
- Replies: 7
- Views: 918
Re: Question
Something that has bugged me is , what was Crowsnest's Wikipedia username ??? Has Crowsnest ever even had a Wikipedia account?? I mean there has to be a reason for their bitterness at Ritchie333 (calling Ritchie333 a offensive name). In some disturbing ways Crowsnest reminds me a lot of MMAR. I am ...
- Mon Apr 23, 2018 10:14 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Larry Sanger says
- Replies: 91
- Views: 2060
Re: Larry Sanger: How to build a better Wikipedia
Why does Wikipedia have just one article on each topic? With the massive amount of traffic it gets today, in 2018, surely there could be many competing articles. There could be competition. Are Wikipedians afraid of competition? I remain unconvinced that having two "pizzagate" articles is an improv...
- Tue Mar 13, 2018 10:14 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Improving the desysopping process
- Replies: 276
- Views: 12471
Re: Improving the desysopping process
Only Arbcom can desysop, yet Arbcom cannot do anything without community consensus. But attempts to gather that community consensus will usually be closed as out of process, as desysop attempts are generally sent to filing a case request at Arbcom. And then the case will more often be declined as p...
- Mon Mar 12, 2018 10:07 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Improving the desysopping process
- Replies: 276
- Views: 12471
Re: Improving the desysopping process
Only Arbcom can desysop, yet Arbcom cannot do anything without community consensus. But attempts to gather that community consensus will usually be closed as out of process, as desysop attempts are generally sent to filing a case request at Arbcom. And then the case will more often be declined as p...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 7:33 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Without Women or Evolution: 'Ultra-Orthodox Wikipedia'
- Replies: 17
- Views: 946
Re: Without Women or Evolution: 'Ultra-Orthodox Wikipedia'
That's a bit like saying the Good News Bible is no different to (say) the Encyclopedia Brittanica....DHeyward wrote:It's no different than wikipedia (and wikipedia is no different than conservapedia or any other pedia made up of a community). It reflects the beliefs of the people that contribute to it.