Wikipediocracy

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Every national tabloid newspaper is reliable (unless someone really influential decides otherwise). No, no they aren't. If you're seriously telling me that The Daily Mail and The Sun, who have a solidly proven reputation for deliberately misreporting things and even completely making them up (Hills...

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Washington Post has published a review of Andrew Keen's The Internet Is Not the Answer:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ ... story.html

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Wikipedia is littered with dubious explanatory phrases in articles, some of these include: "some people say" https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awikipedia.org+"some+people+say" "a number of people have" https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awikipedia.org+"A+number+of+people+have" Despite Wikiped...

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Reddit in a flap over leaked underage photos of McKayla Maroney.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... -porn.html

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the site is dominated by “young white western males with a slight personality defect”.

The problem is not so much the "young" ones, it's the middle-aged ones that are still behaving like they're teenagers.

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The end result of Jimbo's ice bucket challenge.

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The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix articles are both vastly over-represented on Wikipedia.

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No surprises there. This is the same website that was quick to jump in and recognise the People's Republic of Donetsk, the Kharkiv People's Republic, and the Lugansk parliamentary republic and upload a redrawn map of the Ukraine before any others did.

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Well, he is no longer a Living Person, so the mob of creeps and monsters who edit Wikipedia's BLPs can now say whatever they want about him. They say what they want about living people too, tailoring sources to fit their claims. Just because something is written in a newspaper doesn't mean that is ...

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Oh my god... just pray there is no chocolate topping option.

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Is WikiBear another attempt to get back at Larry Sanger? Sanger launched a moderately successful website called Reading Bear not so long ago:

http://www.readingbear.org/

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Michael Jackson's Wikipedia Page Gets More Revisions Than Obama, Jesus Fuse , 4 June 2014 http://www.fuse.tv/2014/06/michael-jackson-wikipedia-page-revisions-obama-jesus Wiki's bio for the pop star who died five years ago gets rewritten more often than pages for our sitting president, the subject o...

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http://www.ranker.com/list/9-car-accide ... ert-wabash

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"Word of the day: WIKISM - a piece of information that claims to be true but is wildly inaccurate."

https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/469035204875931648

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(split from 'Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting' topic) - Zoloft
And history repeats itself with:

2014 Isla Vista massacre (T-H-L)

Editors engaged in revert wars, BoNs inserting spurious information, and misogyny, as they all scramble to be first.

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thekohser wrote:Anybody notice anything "peculiar" about the scheduled line-up of sessions?

Reads like a snoozefest.

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Actually, Mexico City won the bid ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AWikimania_2015_bids&diff=8250129&oldid=8197632 ): I've taken the liberty of updating this page since the jury announcement that Mexico City is the winning bid, pending WMF vetting. Wikimania Wikimania 2015[edit]...

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:facepalm: It always amazes me how many people (including journalists) seem to think that you have to "hack" Wikipedia to change an entry. The thing has existed for over a decade, and it still hasn't sunk in with some people that there's an "Edit" tab. Or maybe they're implying Wikipedia is run by ...

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From the very awesome Dan Murphy ; Starting in 2009, Wikipedia's article on the Hausa "Boko alphabet" incorrectly asserted that the word derived from "book." It was corrected two days ago, when someone noticed Newman's article. Wikipedia's entry on Boko Haram likewise carried the falsehood for at l...

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http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/1405/image005.jpg I hate to admit it, but the Tiny King has a point this time. Running for public office in a serious manner means you are selling yourself to a wide range of voters. It's even worse than selling washing machines or candybars, where a little bit...

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As Stierlitz pointed out in that other thread , the people who started VICE magazine aren't actually the "nice guys" and "crusaders for truth and justice" they claim to be. They are a business, first and foremost. A flawed business. With skeletons. Specifically, Gavin McInnes, co-founder who was pu...

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Bomis was an "empty-shirt" dot.com created with the intent of getting venture capital funding and hopefully eventually acquired by someone, thereby making its founders all Very Rich without actually having to do much work. They cast about for various ideas that would generate traffic, buzz, or both...

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Privacy concerns raised as Google+ makes it possible to send email via name search Questions raised as new automatically enabled feature in Google+ lets people send emails to strangers without knowing their email address The Guardian, 10 January 2014 http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/1...

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I can think of many equivalents of Abbie Hoffman jumping on-stage and shouting into the microphone "This is a pile of shit..." Then being knocked off-stage by Arbcom (Townshend).

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A message, from Newslines founder Mark Devlin : Because Newslines is only concerned about a topics newsworthiness we can create newslines about subjects that have been in the news but are not encyclopedic. A good example of this is the newsline I made for a local businessman here in Sarasota: http:...

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EricBarbour wrote:And now it's time for a photo of Norrie.....

There is also a very explicit uncensored photo of Norrie on IMDb: link

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I'm not a fan of the new font since it feels "wider" to me, on my monitor. Then again 95% of web redesigns in my experience tend to be worse than what they replaced. Serif fonts look great on printed material but on-line they don't look as good, particularly in this case. I prefer the older version...

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The above written by Bonnie J.M. Swoger http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/information-culture/about.php?author=411 : Bonnie J. M. Swoger is a Science and Technology Librarian at a small public undergraduate institution in upstate New York, SUNY Geneseo. She teaches students about the science lite...

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That article now appears to be part of an edit war. It looks like someone is unhappy with the court decision.

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Of course not. I was saying that there is nothing odd about taking an interest in these celebrities--our whole society makes a point to drool over them, after all--and I thought it was ridiculous to cast the edits as reflecting some kind of perversion. I didn't realize you were suggesting that the ...

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Mancunium wrote:

We finally get a snapshot on who has been building content for wikipedia.

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"My Little Poklony"

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Brion Vibber: Nupedia may well be wonderful, but I have zero interest in it. I first heard of it a few months before I got involved in Wikipedia; I went to the site, browsed through the FAQs, and got the distinct impression that I wasn't welcome unless I had a PhD ." Vibber was right. Nupedia was v...

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Professor Kohs, may I propose as my dissertation topic, "The manifestations of human sexuality in the writings of Laura Hale?" :D Better yet, why not write up her Wikipedia/WMF history? It's stunningly insane. I promise. Just what the world needs, an Arts Thesis on Fandom, http://keithlyons.me/aust...

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The Joy wrote:I think Tanzania would be the best place out of those selections. Besides, Julius Nyerere (T-H-L) is one of my favorite African leaders.

+1. Coverage of sub-Saharan Africa on Wikipedia is quite poor compared to other geographic areas. Let's see Wikipedia address this issue.

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Bicholim Conflict is still being sold as a book:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bicholi ... 5510567311

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Ambivalenthysteria , then Ambi , and after who knows how many more name changes, Rebecca . (cur | prev) 06:15, 16 February 2012‎ Nihonjoe (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (483 bytes) (0)‎ . . (moved User:Rebecca to User:Vanished user 5zariu3jisj0j4irj: Automatically moved page while renaming the user "Rebe...

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Midsize Jake wrote:Hopefully these folks have more smarts than Pastor Philip Chryst gives them credit for.

These are the same folk that put their faith in a being that does not exist. I wouldn't get my hopes up too high MJ.

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Hey, 'Pantheon' does Mexicans, too. I haven't seen the USA's list, possibly because all Americans are world-famous for 15 minutes. Estos son los mexicanos verdaderamente famosos en el mundo, según el MIT Si una página de Wikipedia con su nombre aparece en más de 25 idiomas, un equipo del MIT lo cat...

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EricBarbour wrote:This is probably outdated but gives some idea of the scope:
Ralph Squillace, aka Uncle G = PMdrive1061 = Lucky 6.9 [30]. WR threads:[31][32]

Isn't Uncle G's real name Graham Dean?

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Started up by Bonkers the Clown (T-C-L). No doubt he read about himself in this link.

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The Daily Dot: Wikipedia staffer at center of latest sockpuppet scandal

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Wikipediocracy gets a mention.

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Malin Craig It's just a paltry list and so many excessive semicolons. http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-GP77rp8/2/O/i-GP77rp8.jpg Source: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/04/18 Looks like a copyright violation: Information added to wikipedia on 12 August 2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/ind...

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Stierlitz wrote:It would be nice if both Google and Wikipedia went under.

+1

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A better example is the Robert Johnson article. This used to be a disambiguation page for many years, Robert Johnson being a very common name, including senators and congressmen. There is some suggestion on the Talk page the change was railroaded through. Hardly anyone was notified about the propose...

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Holy shit. I've immediately tagged that under CSD:G11, because it is ridiculously promotional, and the guy doesn't seem hugely notable either. The article was created by OzTripCrew in November 2009, and that user did nothing else apart from edit that article, and create a userpage that says "OzTrip...

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This entry below would have to be one of the most blatant pieces of self-promotion I've seen on Wikipedia in a long time.

Nick Petrovic (T-H-L)

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$600,000 just to set up a wiki? That's ridiculous. Who is pocketing most of it? Professor Collard? That's a waste of taxpayers money. Yes there's nothing wrong with a Noongar Wiki, but it can be done for far less expense than that.

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Johnny Au wrote:What do you think of TV Tropes?

There are so many websites on the net using 'gossip being passed off as fact', or regurgitating what's found on wikipedia, so not useful to me sorry.

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I conducted an informal poll on my Facebook page, and out of about 15 or 16 friends of mine, only one wasn't at least somewhat familiar with the fact that Townshend was involved in an imbroglio about child porn. This suggests that it's "common knowledge" being unduly suppressed in the Wikipedia BLP...

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