Wikipediocracy

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The best example of missing articles I found was when some deletionist nimrod went through and merged all the battery articles into lists, so that there were no individual articles for AA battery or CR2032. This situation went on for months or years IIRC. Meanwhile they had articles for various gun...

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tarantino wrote:

Caption contest!

"Who farted?"

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Has anyone seen these? Apparently they are passing out "Bingo" cards, on which are written the numerous buzzwords found in such an event. The ones that caught my eye were "don't use taxis from the street" and "security": https://twitter.com/sanseveria/status/622178435012521984 https://twitter.com/Mo...

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Time for the third edition of the WMF Transparency Report. In the past 6 months there were 234 pleas to the Wikimedia Foundation, many of them likely victims of defamation on Wikipedia, seeking relief. The WMF rejected all 234 of the requests. Amusing that more than half the images on this page hav...

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Can you make one, Harry Potter style, with the exploding head gif? ... Or with this: http://i.imgur.com/g9adoRi.png (for context: https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Scumbag_Steve ) Hey! Welcome back! Thanks! It's almost like I never left. :^) :sparkles: By the way, it might amuse Thekohser to know th...

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Vigilant wrote:Can you make one, Harry Potter style, with the exploding head gif?

... Or with this:

(for context: https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Scumbag_Steve)

edit: forgot to mark ED link as NSFW

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Poetlister wrote:
Kevin wrote:Also there needs to be a bigger facepalm smilie.
+1. This looks like the original.

There's always this:

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I'm upset that $9,000 of tax-exempt money went toward this "laser-focused" workshop, while the content on Wikipedia festers in error and revenge. Where is the $9,000? Did I miss something really obvious? Looks like Bamkin and Stephenson-Goodknight's proposal has been approved , but I don't see a do...

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Peryglus wrote:
Hex wrote:
Vigilant wrote: Pretty much the solution to every VisualCowpat problem is to just not use it.
A strange game, the only way to win is not to play.
Ah, a bit like The Game (mind game) (T-H-L)

Sorta.

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By the way, Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Ceradon just started, a user who is pretty similar to Cyberpower678 in terms of doing that technical stuff. So far 100% support but with only two votes. :blink: This was Ceradon's first contribution on June 7, 2011: ====[[User:Croisés Majestic]]==== *<sp...

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...That's a LOT of manual cleanup for real people to undertake just to allow a group of engineers not to fix the problems in their code base. There isn't a piece of software anywhere that doesn't have problems. If you wait to release software until all the bugs are out, it will *never* be released....

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The WMUK staff, especially Symonds and Myers, must be passing bricks at the moment, because it's suddenly dawned on them that Shapps isn't going to let this go. I'm not sure why. Even if he isn't bluffing, what's going to happen? It might show that the Grauniad leans so heavily left you could hold ...

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sparkzilla wrote:
15 years of operation and yet so very few quality articles. The infinite money theory comes to mind.

That should be "infinite monkey theory".

Freud always wins.

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Ant to top it all, photos have emerged of him burning an American flag. That should damn him in the minds of all decent people. http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/D03A/production/_83760335_burningflag.jpg So he's killed multiple people, espoused white supremacy and trusted Wikipedia, but th...

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Tipperary Hill, also known as Tipp Hill, is a district in the city of Syracuse, New York, largely settled by immigrants from Ireland, especially from County Tipperary. It makes up half of Syracuse's Far Westside neighborhood. Where the junkies have come in to smash your windows and steal items out ...

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[...]This one's from last Saturday, and a useful antidote: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1275679-donate-to-wikipedia-and-pay-for-what-exactly/,Donate to Wikipedia and Pay for… What Exactly? (by Petr Svab, Epoch Times) Template:Donate says: If you find this encyclopedia or its sister projects usef...

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Simon Pulsifer (T-H-L)
James Heilman (T-H-L)
Aaron Halfaker (T-H-L)
Erik Möller (T-H-L)
Justin Knapp (T-H-L)

... among others.

EDIT: Pickleback (T-H-L)

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[...] Have other Liberal Democrats removed their party declarations from Wikipedia/WMF/WMUK sites? His Meta userpage still contains the Liberal Democrats stuff, in addition to his former title of "Community Liaison, Product Development". Meta pages are now used as global userpages, so on wikis wher...

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When pigs fly wrote:Wildly entertaining, but so annoying to read content with popups and sending you to the App Store. Is there a technical way to avoid all of this nonsense?

AdBlock Plus helps a lot.

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When pigs fly wrote:[...]The SacBee article is not verifiable (404)[...]

FWIW here is a copy at Archive.org: link (Archive.is backup)

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So I'm late to the game and don't understand the hate people have for some. I've seen you and others bashing Ironholds for making jokes on IRC. I'm assuming there is something more going on... This log excerpt may be of use. Or this one . An excerpt: May 05 08:46:37 <Ironholds> sonia: we dated for ...

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Is legal assistance now available to regular editors? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/Legal_Fees_Assistance_Program#Eligibility says that legal assistance is available to: Administrators Arbitration Clerks see, e.g., English Wikipedia Arbitration Clerks, Russian Wikipedia Arbitration Clerks A...

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[quote=" ALM's Corporate Counsel Releases Annual List of "Best Legal Departments" in Corporate America "][...] One way they do this is through programs that provide financial support for users who have been sued. This includes directing funds to cover legal fees and giving the community access to la...

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I wonder if anyone will bring up the JurgenNL and TBloemink stalking.

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Zoloft wrote:Eh. He's probably better off without the article. BLPs are a convenient way to slander a person.

True. Plus, this is more for the "Wikipedia weirdness" section of his blog. The incoherent delete reason just adds to the fun!

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Probably not paid, but self-promotion anyway: IOSGamer1 Likely COI: Probably Randall Herman, an independent game developer whose other work you might have heard of: link Disclosure: None. All contribs were on December 6, 2013 which might have been before the change to the TOS. Unity of focus: 75%. O...

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The AfD discussion you link to was March 2007 and it was judged as no-consensus. How bloody typical of the “community”! So I went through the history of all the 55 AfD contributors since then just to see how this group of Wikipedians is faring today (I ought to reinvent myself as a Wikgnome). 0nly ...

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If anything, expectations for sourcing BLPs are far harder now then they were 5 - 6 - 7 whatever years ago so the length of time isn't relevant if the sourcing is still poor & I'm already committed to referring this back to AFD if something acceptable comes up. Wow, after the new sources being put ...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Farivar,Cyrus Farivar was killed on May 8 by Col. Spartaz in the parlor with the pipe wrench. 05:22, 8 May 2015 Spartaz (talk | contribs) deleted page Cyrus Farivar (G4: Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion issue with sources about not ...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Farivar,Cyrus Farivar was killed on May 8 by Col. Spartaz in the parlor with the pipe wrench. 05:22, 8 May 2015 Spartaz (talk | contribs) deleted page Cyrus Farivar (G4: Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion issue with sources about not ...

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Mexican jumping bean (T-H-L):

§Source of the beans wrote:Legend says that they fell from the sky one day.

Unsourced, of course.

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Did WMF staff and WP administrators start to behave themselves on (open) IRC after the Ironholds and Kiefer.Wolfowitz Arbcom case or after Lila was hired? Somewhat. I think that IRC was given orders to clean up by Sue Gardner, but I may be wrong. Does anybody recall any directives about IRC? No, bu...

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Thanks Claudi. Cyrus Farivar Well, well, well. Created on Thursday by a little-used sockpuppet called Alexgoldmark . Once again, Wikipediocracy, despite being "that evil forum", still has clout over Wikipedia. Ha ha ha. Fools. (Okay, dicks, now where's your "neutral" Denise Milani article?) Referen...

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Hex wrote:Have they learned nothing at all?

They should enable Flow on AN/I and the other drama boards. This would enable the content creators to go about their business, while the noticeboards (and its inhabitants) would wither away.

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Check it out! Eric Barbour! Please comment! I checked it out and read for errors. Found none. Love the clown theme. It matches the circus like atmosphere there and it's a good example of Wikipedian revenge. Already posted on Slashdot. http://slashdot.org/submission/4379759/the-prominent-journalist-...

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Not everyone knows the jargon, the shorthands, the link abbreviations and the acronyms. In fact, very few people do. There's a project for a bored and frustrated participant on this forum: write a book about Wikipedia internal jargon. Or if you're not inclined to write an entire book, you could add...

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Hot off the press! An analysis of the recent 60 Minutes feature on Wikipedia. Please let me know if you see any typos, or if you think I missed something. http://newslines.org/blog/the-sexists-at-the-top-of-wikipedia/ There's a dead link here: such as the New York Times: Define Gender Gap? Look Up ...

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https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_talk:Policies They're now trying to create new guidelines for the appointment / election of sysops. This talk page of Wikipedia policies page, here you can propose or discuss about policies and please write here in English so that non-Pashto users also understa...

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Since Ironholds is a lying little prick about the throat punching remark, I'm repasting it here. [...] TL;DR Oliver Keyes aka Ironholds, employee of the WMF, fantasizes about murdering a girl in a university class for being annoying. For further context, the complete log is available at Encyclopedi...

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Absolutely not. Honestly, the very concept of Peter Damian returning makes me feel ill. Just to make sure we're talking about the same user: this is the person who claims to be writing a book length- and format "expose" on Wikipedia that discusses specific editors (COI declaration: I'm one of them)...

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Wow, thanks so much for the link to an unsigned blog post in the world-renowned "Cyde Ways Musings" which quotes a Valley Wag article that seems to no longer exist . The link was moved from http://valleywag.com/372140/erik-mller-no-2-at-wikipedia-a-defender-of-pedophilia to http://gawker.com/372140...

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Speaking of Bhutan and sound files, the article on Bhutan (T-H-L) was apparently vandalized on April 4. Does it seem to anyone else that vandalism isn't caught as fast as it was only a couple of years ago?

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If someone were to put together a blog post, there is a thread at Wikipedia Review that could be useful.

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The full piece is on the web now ( link) . While the segment seems somewhat mundane, I was shocked by Sue Gardner's sexist comment, and left a comment about it: >Sue Gardner: Women are less likely to kinda geek out at their computer for 10, 20, 40 hours. I mean, there's a reason that the stereotype...

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Did anyone keep a copy of it? If all the squabbling over the file is to be understood correctly in historical context, there needs to be the possibility of hearing the topic of the dispute. QdDD9ViRZz4 MP3 at https://archive.org/download/bhutanese_passport-1/Bhutanese_Passport-1.unprocessed.mp3 OGG...

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The photogenic Mr Walling, and a couple of our other friends also feature in this splendid little video which is currently featured at Wikipedia:Username policy . And... end with a sneer, JDF, lovely, that's a wrap... :crying: From March 2010: hPQxSb4ndC4 We speak a secret jargon filled with more t...

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...they are way, way too busy wasting money on grants to user groups and pursuing unproven programs that sound good on paper but may not achieve anything in reality. Don't forget surfacing. There's a whole lot of surfacing of opportunities and threats going on, and you're being unfair if you fail t...

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While I may well be addicted I resent your characterization of me as a basement dweller. And yes I do make a habit of perusing this site for legitimate suggestions for how to improve the encyclopedia and carrying them out if I find them reasonable and within my sphere of capability and interest. I ...

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That's really weird, I went looking for Coffee's RFA to see if I did vote for him and I can't find it where it might be expected... [link]https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Successful_requests_for_adminship&from=C[/link] An unpublicized name change? An omission from the list??? Use...

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Either this goes down as the lamest sneaky attempt in history or the most awesomely tone deaf move of the century. After years and years of being producing buggy, poorly thought out crapware, the WMF engineers are thinking about speeding up the performance of the VisualCowpat. "How are they gonna t...

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