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No credit to the source text. That's because the Softpedia text is younger than the Wikipedia text: all of that text can be found in the WP article by the end of December 2007 , before the Softpedia article was first published. Oh, nice. So we have a Wikipedia article citing a Softpedia article tha...

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If you're anything like me, in the 1980s you wanted to have a plasma globe, because those things looked so damn cool. And now on the rare occasions when you still see one, you wonder vaguely how those suckers work. Well, get ready for the answer as provided by Plasma globe : A plasma globe or plasma...

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Anroth wrote:Can we get an answer to the question 'How many headshots does Hex have?'.

I admit it's been bothering me for awhile.

There are some things that we will probably just never know.

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Mr. Tears needs to learn that the correct response to being accused of something in a forum post doesn't include sending an insulting private message to the accuser. Especially not when the accuser is board staff.

We wish him well in his future personal development.

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Lol, alt-right ads on the front page. Stroll on, Nazi.

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ReverendWayne wrote:List of incomplete or partially lost films (T-H-L)

A Dangerous Adventure (1922)

The UCLA Film and Television Archive has episodes 1-11 and 13-15 of the 15-chapter serial with the exception of episode 12.

That almost brings a tear to the eye.

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High Street The House of Commons in 2006 established its All Party Parliamentary Small Shops Group which warned against current trends in high streets named High Street Britain 2015 . [ 3 ] I find it unlikely that any street would be called "High Street Britain 2015", let alone that there are enoug...

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as if there wasn't already a survey about Flow that took place back in September (the results of which the WMF have still not published). From Phabricator: Benoît is on vacation this week, so let me share a quick update. We could not complete this task in the past quarter but it is one of the top p...

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I can't help but wonder if this the sort of monkeywrenching is the purpose that the WMF designed the TCG for. Nope, appears to have just been the usual WMF tonedeafness. After talking with the Collaboration team and the Community Liaisons, we have agreed that our best position here is not to interf...

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[Copied from Technical Collaboration Guideline thread ] Over on Meta, there's a proposal to remove the installation of Flow . It's succeeding overwhelmingly. However, Qgil-WMF has popped up to tell everyone that actually, before trying to get it removed they should be using the TCG to tell them wha...

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Over on Meta, there's a proposal to remove the installation of Flow . It's succeeding overwhelmingly. However, Qgil-WMF has popped up to tell everyone that actually, before trying to get it removed they should be using the TCG to tell them what the problems are with Flow first. As if droves of peopl...

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Creme Puff (cat) Creme Puff (August 3, 1967 – August 6, 2005) was an American cat who died aged 38 years and 3 days (or 168 cat years [dubious – discuss] ). "Cat years" text inserted in 2015 by something calling itself Alumnum . Request for proof of cat years inserted this October by an IP editor.

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The original text reads "One of his most popular compositions today, it is also one of the most accomplished." It's hard to imagine a more unnecessary mangling of an extremely short piece of text for absolutely zero benefit.

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I don't know if this is strictly vandalism, but it's still great:

List of Christmas films (T-H-L)

Lethal Weapon

Recently widowed undercover cop is teamed up with cop who's too old during the holidays to solve a murder.

Added by an IP editor in August 2014.

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Plasmarok Plasmarok is a registered name for the fully recovered vitrified aggregate created by the Advanced Plasma Power Gasplasma waste to energy process. Created by Richard.lafferty in 2010 - aka the Communications Officer of Advanced Plasma Power Ltd . It is mechanically strong and environmenta...

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Dennis Brown wrote:What about admin who simply drop the bit, like I have done this year (and last year). Is there a count for that?

It's not organized as a count, but there's a list here: Wikipedia:Former administrators/reason/resigned (T-H-L)

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Why is there no "like" function on WO? So many of the posts on this thread deserve high praise. Excellent work, everyone. I must agree. The software this forum runs on has the like feature (called "Thanks"). Not natively, it requires an extension, called a MOD in the phpBB world. MODs make upgrades...

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Mostly unrelated: There is some grumbling about inline banners asking for donations, which people find spammy. From that thread: With regards to user appeals with photos: 1) They are notoriously difficult to be successful. We spent a whole year trying to beat Jimmy's face and Brandon was the only o...

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It would appear most of the information you're sad about being removed was removed by some random IP so if anyone wanted to put it back in it's unlikely they'd face much resistance. I agree, which is why I've just done that. Ogygia is no longer able to post on this forum, but if he's reading - I sa...

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Ogygia wrote:These new 2016 mini boglins are a complete disgrace to the cult collectors toys early 1990s' mini boglins...

As someone who clearly remembers the joy of opening the packet to discover a gold or even glow in the dark Mini Boglin, I agree.

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Ogygia wrote: The "fascist", "neo-nutzi", "racist" and "skinhead boover boot" thing in the 21st century is just a caricature and smear invented by the left.

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I have altered the title of this thread. Pray I do not alter it further.

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File 13 (T-H-L) ought to be put in its own subject.

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Hrm, I had a CueCat back in the day, and indeed it was worthless. But the idea was pretty solid. He was just way ahead of his time and the needed synergy with other ecosystems was not there. QR codes are essentially the exact same thing. Except that QR codes can contain text, don't require you to b...

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In other news, Beeblebrox has made his contribution to ensuring the safety of all by suggesting that admins be required to use a unique password. The difficulty of proving a negative doesn't seem to have dampened his enthusiasm.

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I've been involved with IT for at least a couple of decades and have always lived by the expression that when it comes to computer security, there are two kinds of people: paranoids and idiots. If you aren't a little paranoid, you're an idiot ;) Touché! Besides, the admin interface is no fun on a s...

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I cooked some parsnips today as part of a meal and had the thought "parsnip, what a weird name. I wonder what the derivation is." So I looked it up. Obviously, Parsnip was the first search result. Under Taxonomy , we have the following: The etymology of the generic name Pastinaca is not known with c...

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(a) That article isn't linked in the computing article until the see also section, after kilobytes of crap.

(b)

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Entropy (computing) (T-H-L) is unmitigated shit. This brief discussion on StackExchange is immensely more useful as a starting point for someone new to the topic and simultaneously completely uninterested in operating system trivia.

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If your phone has a PIN or other lock on it then you're good to go with your admin account. Unless you think that a mugger is going to try deleting Main Page, it's completely paranoid using an alternative account and/or logging your phone out every time. Sorry, Dennis.

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Nice to see Dan and PD both in a thread, if only briefly.

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Johnny Au wrote:This one is almost literal: Urinary segregation (T-H-L)

Much of the article reads like a poorly written essay, especially in the "Gender Neutral Restrooms on college campuses" section.

That's some quality writing right there.

Cooper Union, a liberal arts instituion in new york city

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SB_Johnny wrote: Firefox just had a serious hissy on me, above link fixed (we don't have a cert for https).

NUDGE NUDGE

Yes,

(I did +1 a suggestion for that months ago in the meta topic, so nyah)

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All EnWP admins have just in the last day or two had an email advising them that two-factor authentication has been made available to them, which is a curious bit of timing to say the least.

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Mediawiki 'leaks like a bucket made of string.' http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=38548#p38548,I forget who said that. :D :evilgrin: To be fair, I meant that in relation to trying to conceal your identity if you change your mind about your user name. OurMine got Legoktm as well.

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I misread the title of this thread as saying "pruned" and was very disappointed with the reality.

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So, is there the requisite "gnashing of teeth" Talk page somewhere, where Wikipediots are whining about this discontinuation? I'd love to glance at that for a few minutes, to see emotional reaction to a failed multi-million-dollar project that nobody asked for. After the most recent round of stompi...

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The section I reviewed also contained several paragraphs expounding on the amusing prediction that "microprocessors will be made obsolete by ASICs within 20 years". And yet, here we are, 25 years later, and microprocessors are still very much with us, as the industry's brief flirtation with ASICs l...

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This is how the Flow ends: not with a bang, but a whimper.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/319761/

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The Technical Collaboration Guideline (TCG) allows Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) Product teams and Wikimedia communities to work together in a systematic way. The TCG establishes best practices for inviting community involvement in the product development and deployment cycle. https://mediawiki.org/wi...

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On the brief-lived Chicago White Sox (T-H-L) experiment in wearing shorts in 1976:

Apart from aesthetic issues, as a practical matter shorts are not conducive to sliding, due to the likelihood of significant abrasions.

This is either one of the worst sentences, or possibly the best.

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Two posts moved to Outdated articles thread.

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Earthy Astringent wrote:
thekohser wrote:I've never even heard of this editor, so I am suspecting that he or she was not an influential player.
His original username was Ricky, but someone told him not to lose that number.

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Russian roulette has a section on probabilities. Thanks Einstein. Also: History In Mikhail Lermontov's "The Fatalist" (1840), one of five novellas comprising his A Hero of Our Time, a minor character places a gun with an unknown number of bullets to his head, pulls the trigger and survives. However...

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Greg, that was completely uncalled-for. What the writer is talking about is the state of the article as it was until this July, when somebody took an axe to the plot section. It's everything he makes it out to be : As 1206 heads towards Fuller, Frank radios into the yard. Earlier, 1206 found out abo...

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I bought a fuchsia Matsushita in Scunthorpe.

aggressive: 1.00
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friendly: 0.00

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@Alsee: IIUC, the desired end-state is: For there to be no Flow boards in use at all on Enwiki, and no future Flow boards without a significant community consensus to restart trialling the software. I.e. nobody does anything new related to Flow on Enwiki. That is readily achievable, and agreeable. ...

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It's hard to conceive of a feebler intellect than one that dribbles out of a screen the way that yours does. aggressive: 0.10 neutral: 0.90 friendly: 0.00 It's hard to conceive of a feebler intellect than one that dribbles anemically out of a screen the way that yours does. aggressive: 0.08 neutral...

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As a slight diversion, Crap talk pages. Have a look at Talk:Human penis size (T-H-L) and its archives.

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