Wikipediocracy

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Even if Wales himself doesn't get one penny of the money (lol), there are plenty of sinecures that can be handed out. If he was truly concerned about human rights, he could have donated the funds to an established organization with a proven track record. The whole thing stinks. Yes, I also believe ...

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http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:WMFOffice&oldid=10997237 Russavia knows by whom he was globally banned, but I'll say it here as well. I signed the letter myself. In all things, the WMF tries very hard to be as open and transparent as possible. But there are times when - for the...

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I was surprised to watch how Russavia has attacked a mighty Herbythyme on Commons and...won. http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Herbythyme&oldid=146499507#Now_that_you_have_returned..... Would you care to explain the CU abuse from 26/27 April 2013? The OC tried contacting you b...

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I know there are a few articles about Palestinian children killed by Israelis. Do you know, if there's an article or two about Palestinian children killed by their parents? Could you please name some? This is not the point. Aga, now I understand: There's a point if one writes a blog named "Wikipedi...

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Should I continue? What would be the point? The blog post highlights that on wikipedia pages written about murdered Israeli children are almost exclusively about children that were not killed by Israelis, or more particularly about children killed by Palestinians. Why this is remarkable is because ...

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<snip> You have a point, there. I think the difference is that Brad was ground down to that level, whereas that's where the others started. I like to think that he realised that, and that's why he did not stand again. We can't know why he was less the paragon of virtue, and more the "go with the fl...

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Brad has done a very nice job as an Arb and is to be commended. ... While I don't endorse everything Ira has done, he has served with honor ... That's an appropriate summary in my opinion. He is consistent, which is much more than can be said for most of the arbitrators over time. That means, IMO, ...

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Hopefully, he's beginning to realize that his participation on Arbcom is turning into a negative.... Completely unrelated, but my term expires less than two weeks from now. Oh no! Is it really expires in less than two weeks from now? We would all feel so orphaned without you being an arbitrator, ou...

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Hopefully, he's beginning to realize that his participation on Arbcom is turning into a negative.... Completely unrelated, but my term expires less than two weeks from now. Oh no! Is it really expires in less than two weeks from now? We would all feel so orphaned without you being an arbitrator, ou...

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EricBarbour wrote: And what is this about a fictional Chinese town mayor?? Another hoax we knew nothing about?

It was removed in 2012 and it is listed here.

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Um... Any chance of a link or a summary? Again, happy to respond (as best I can) after the weekend - but I prefer to keep weekends for family, not Wikipedia nonsense Don't feed me bullshit lines. It is trivial for you to examine the last threads you were involved in before the questions became too ...

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Zoloft wrote:Triptych will be back in a week. Give us all a rest before Halloween.

Triptych will be back in a week. Give us all a rest before Halloween. Are you OK, Zoloft?

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turnedworm wrote:I will reply further after the weekend if anyone other than neved would like me to.

What a childish behavior unbecoming not only of an arbitrator, but even simply of an adult

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Why not just block people instead? They can either honour the block or not, and that is the case whether they are community banned or not. You cannot stop anyone editing Wikipedia if they really want. The current system is not about preventing people from editing, it's about humiliating them in eve...

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Why did you add the link to youtube to my quote? Would you please put it above or below?

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I can see that. "Banned by the community" does have that connotation. If you set up a system of "magistrates courts" instead, would that improve it? I'm not sure it necessarily would, because chances are they'd end up staffed by "hanging Judges" like Sandstein. Perhaps I'm too cynical. Why not just...

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But basically Peter Damian and SB Johnny have it right. Which means that turnedworm has just admitted the "charitable" tax-exempt wikipedia is run and governed by a few anonymous bullies, by lynch mobs, and the govcom has no authority to stop them? I mean we all know what "community" means in regar...

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Arbitrators do have the tool and power to stop it, but they do not. Oh FFS. The arbs have just about enough authority to wipe their own asses without asking for permission. It's not fair to demand that they wipe everyone else's. It is a wrong excuse. Besides I am not talking about wiping asses (let...

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I'm not a prominent Wikipedian. You're not a prominent anything. In a few years you'd be remembered only by a few very sick, very anonymous wiki-bullies and a few sad wikipediots. P.S. In a private message I was asked to reinforce my statement with diffs, or remove it. The paradox of that demand is...

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I think he is on the record as believing these lynch mobs are nasty. In fact I met a few of the Arbcom at the conference and they all seem to think the same way. When you ask them what they can do about it, they say they can't do anything. Sure they could. Lynch mobs actions should be prevented or ...

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Worm is the worst kind of cyberbully, the beta kind that doesn't aggress much on his own, but lines up square behind the alphas when they push somebody helpless around. His administrative motto is not "follow the rules," but rather to advise blocked editors "you annoyed the wrong person." He says t...

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Dear Mr. Worm, here http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AJimbo_Wales&diff=624278318&oldid=624278078 you write: Jimmy, I've pointed this out to Eric - but I would like to object to your request. Simply, I think it's unfair that you are almost certainly discussing him below - even if ...

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Eric, please stay off my user talk page.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 10:04, 5 September 2014 (UTC) I've said quite a few times now that I regard Wales as one of the most uncivil editors on the project and one of the least productive. No real "net positive" there that I can see. Eric Corbett 14:05, 5 Septem...

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In any case that exchange made me to believe that neither the worm nor jimbo are aware what they are talking about. :XD What Jimbo wants is a feature whereby he can prevent The Usual Suspects from posting to his talk page, but without creating a log entry that can be linked to from elsewhere, the w...

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I'm not a prominent Wikipedian. You're not a prominent anything. In a few years you'd be remembered only by a few very sick, very anonymous wiki-bullies and a few sad wikipediots. P.S. In a private message I was asked to reinforce my statement with diffs, or remove it. The paradox of that demand is...

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Worm to Jimbo: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=prev&oldid=624163136 Actually, I'd go so far as to say you're not familiar with current workings on Wikipedia here, Jimmy. Jimbo to Worm: It seems odd that you would think that I'm not familiar with current workings ...

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Arbcom always runs around chasing their tails, And doing it slowly — it never fails! But Brad ain't the problem, you heard it here first, You'll agree with me next year — this ain't the worst. Brad ain't the problem, but neither solution, His presence or absence won't change resolution, And one doe...

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Pondering furiously; neutral for now. I realize this is useless as input, which is what happens after six and one-half years on the Committee. I'll vote tomorrow if the case hasn't already been opened by then. Newyorkbrad (talk) 23:09, 25 August 2014 (UTC) I feel a long essay coming on, but I'm not...

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I see that the poetastry has been fecund While I was away for the holiday weekend. But this is a lousy excuse for a thread, And the doggerel here would be better unread. Who needs excuses for having some fun, Somebody as boring as that one ? Somebody who's named Ira Brad That is a perfect rhyme for...

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thekohser wrote:The case is all clerked up and ready to go.

Which means that govcom is not likely to listen to their constitutional monarch who advised them to suspend the case for a cooling off period.

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Archetypal Limerick template: There once was an entity E That satisfied predicate P. It performed action A In a specified way, Resulting in circumstance C. That's actually quite cool, and very well constructed. It probably deserves to be in the article Limerick (poetry) , rather than just lingering...

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I started the thread for fun, and I am happy that now it's getting responses I hoped for, and that not everybody here is the grump :-)
Nice poems, everybody! Thanks for sharing.

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...Andy is correct that expecting to maintain an interesting criticism site just on the strength of a hen's tooth like that would be foolhardy, should anyone consider doing so. Well, good thing this isn't our only thread, then! :hmmm: I'll admit, I've never liked seeing these threads where someone ...

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God, the members of this forum are getting desperate. First we have Kohs creating multiple threads concerning the astonishing revelations about Jimbo forgetting to sign on, and now Newyorkbrad is being hauled over the coals for 'plagiarising' a nursery rhyme written by who-knows-who back in the day...

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Newyorkbrad came up with yet another poem, which he plagiarized from this old nursery rhyme , signing it with his user name with no mentioning where the rhymes came from: Hickory Dickory Dock My post ran out the clock The clock struck none, I'm off for fun, But first I've been trolled by a sock. New...

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Statement by Jimbo Wales My apologies for taking so long to respond to this. I've been away and somehow until I got an email today I had overlooked entirely that there was a potential for an ArbCom case. I would suggest here that all the editors who have been fighting about this please give each ot...

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Once again newyorkbrad proves that Newyorkbrad (Ira Brad Matetsky) = cowardliness + indecisiveness + dishonesty Please take a look here Mr. Matetsky has waited for almost two weeks to opine on thad request, and at last he did: Pondering furiously; neutral for now. I realize this is useless as input,...

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No matter what is this all about, but it is great! They all, and I mean all, worth each other . Also your observations about newyorkbrad performance are absolutely correct. His only goal is making sure nobody blames him for anything. Newyorkbrad (Ira Brad Matetsky) = cowardliness + indecisiveness + ...

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I chatted briefly with Fae who is quite unlike the character he portrays online. I think the internet has a bad effect on all of us. And here's his opinion about you https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard&diff=132786516&oldid=132786162&uselang=en I d...

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Mancunium wrote:

Funny guy: Wikipedia supremo Jimmy Wales (left) takes the piss

So Jimbo is at the left? I used to have some doubts

Happy somebody explained what I'm looking at.

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I had an odd sort of respect for Jimbo who shambled on at the closing ceremony looking like he had just got out of bed, in pajamas. I wonder if that was for effect. I do not. How one could have any, even odd sort of respect, to the self-proclaimed wikipedia founder, who looks like this http://uploa...

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Also striking was in the closing speech by Jimmy, where he noted the problem of editors who contribute excellent content to Wikipedia but who have a toxic effect on the community because of their incivility. These people should be shown the door 'in a nice way' but firmly. The crowd gradually broke...

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Forget about the monkey for a moment. Generally speaking, do not upload your images to Commons and/or to any wikipedia. I do not even say that by uploading your work to that site you'd help to promote its free porn, its antisemitic cartoons, its admins as Mattbuck who apologizes to the aforementione...

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Andreas, I'd like to ask you please what did you mean, when you said
"Some male attendees looked worryingly unfit."
Was it how they were dressed, how the looked, how they talked or something else? Could you please provide some specifics? And how many were those "some"?
Thanks.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AMiscellany_for_deletion%2FUser%3AMontanabw%2FBrat_in_a_bubble&diff=621113868&oldid=621112307 Keep. No more offensive (indeed, a lot less offensive) than Jimbo's recent ramblings at Wikimania. Black Kite (talk) 20:51, 13 August 2014 (UTC) Does som...

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In his speech, he says, "We are all now scientists. Everyone in this room is a scientist, because they have Wikipedia." It is hard to imagine a more idiotic statement. It reminded to me THREE MEN IN A BOAT (to say nothing of the dog) by JEROME K. JEROME. Remember a young man read a few books on med...

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Hex, I saw where you said that at Wikimania people were encouraged to snap selfies of themselves while holding a stiff-backed reproduction of the famous and rights-contested black macaque photo. Others here have mentioned this phenomenon, I think it was on Saturday morning, and I also read somewher...

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I'm back home. I'm so glad. Wouldn't you be even happier, if you did not go there at all? Honestly? It was fascinating. I wouldn't want to do it again, but it was fascinating. Also interesting was how many of the Wikipedians were really nice people. I made an effort to talk to many many of them, an...

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Also striking was in the closing speech by Jimmy, where he noted the problem of editors who contribute excellent content to Wikipedia but who have a toxic effect on the community... "a toxic effect on the community"? First mr. wales should define "the community". If he means the community of demiur...

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Were you able to touch Brandon's hair? I hear that those who are able to get close enough to stroke those long, silky locks are imbued with new powers of "courage", just as his forearm tattoo says. I nearly took a photo of PD admiring Brandon's tattoo in person, but decided to leave the moment for ...

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