Wikipediocracy

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A blogpost from 2016 by a Chinese academic discussing the state of Baidu Baike (In Chinese, but easily readable with google translate) https://wap.sciencenet.cn/blog-1183006-994933.html?mobile=1 is very interesting, and a gives thorough accounts of the website. It's pretty scathing (openly calling i...

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The South China Morning Post reports: https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3260186/baidu-closes-wikipedia-app-focus-shifts-generative-ai-service-ernie-bot Baidu closes Wikipedia-like app as focus shifts to generative AI service Ernie Bot Launched in 2006, Baike gained popularity partly because...

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I was initially confused as I thought this was about Netanyahu's other son Yair Netanyahu (T-H-L), who is definitely a public figure and has enough long-term coverage to pass WP:GNG.

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All this I guess goes to show how little scrutiny the WMFs bigwigs actually get from the mainstream press. I wonder if that will change from this point on. Some of her statements do seem very careless in retrospect for someone looking to take a prominent position like the head of NPR.

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Some recent comments at the Bob Lazar talkpage: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3ABob_Lazar&diff=1217565251&oldid=1214171064 Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 6 April 2024 Change "Elements of Bob's employment history have been exaggerated or fabricated" to "elements of Bob...

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The willingness of people to release high-quality professional photographic images for free (or nearly so) has significantly devalued the market for commercial photography (which will no doubt be devalued further by AI images). I doubt people will be satisfied with AI images of their weddings, babi...

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Doesn’t the free use license used by Commons require subsequent users credit either Commons or the uploader (I’m not sure which)? It’s hardly an onerous requirement to get free use something valuable. It requires crediting the author specifically, along with the license. Many sites (including those...

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Recently at the Commons Village pump ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Suggestions_to_make_license_obligations_clearer ) a user, Normanlamont complained that he was being persued for damages by Pixsy (a firm used by photographers to collect payments from copyright infringers ...

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How does this idiotic idea work with browser extensions that block cookies? It just creates a new temporary account for every edit and clutters up the database. It’d be a shame if such technology were adopted by the masses and the WMF had to spend another six years solving that problem. I'm cynical...

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This appears to have been largely a dud. Only non-Jewish source I can find covering this is The Spectator Australia https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/03/the-world-jewish-congress-investigates-wikipedia/ , which was written by a Israeli -Australian guest author who's only contributors to the publicat...

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Reminds me of the hysterical rants that David Collier used to write about Wikipedia being edited by "antisemites and terrorist supporters" https://david-collier.com/project-wikipedia/

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Horse Eye's Back is seriously arguing in the BLP discussion that the article should exist because NOTNEWS encourages editors "to develop stand-alone articles on the most significant current events". :facepalm: He's arguing that Catherine is a "political figure", which is an interesting angle. I've ...

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The article on American molecular biologist and Rutgers University professor Richard H. Ebright was created back in 2011 by an SPA Barton1234 , who has continued to sporadically edit the article (and only that article) as recently as a few days ago. I'm pretty convinced that Barton1234 is Ebright hi...

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AndyTheGrump wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:58 pm

Hemiauchenia wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:50 pm
Twitter has gone to great lengths to redact. ST's real identity despite the fact that he is a far right racist and antisemite.
'Because of', not 'despite'...

Yeah, that was implied. Musk has previously retweeted one of StoneToss's comics and he regularly tweets far right nonsense now.

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Some people have been trying to create a Wikipedia article for far-right cartoonist StoneToss for years. It's been created and deleted and created again and deleted again but it never seemed to have enough coverage to stick. Perhaps his time has finally come: Boing Boing: Nazi cartoonist meets the ...

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Micronation seems to me somewhat of a misnomer, given that microstate (T-H-L) refers to legitimate sovereign states. "Fantasy country/nation/state" would be a better name, following the terminology used to describe the passports issued by these entities.

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I beg to differ. I've edited the page started about my record label before and there was neither promotional intent nor effect. I'd do it again if I gave half a shit... Frankly, having Discogs up to date is about 10x more important. I suspect that you won't be able to edit the page in the future, g...

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Does anybody know the story behind successful May 2021 RFA candidate Ashleyyoursmile , which was renamed to Viridian Bovary and then vanished off as Renamed user 7z42t3k8qj ??? The RFA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/Ashleyyoursmile Passed 224 / 6 / 4. t As I remembe...

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[...] I note that Ars Technica and Futurism has covered Wikipedia's downgrading of CNET due to their AI article fiasco (among other things) https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/wikipedia-downgrades-cnets-reliability-rating-after-ai-generated-articles/ https://futurism.com/wikipedi...

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Jimbo made more statements on AI covered this time by Nikkei: https://asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks/Interview/Clever-but-random-Wikipedia-s-Jimmy-Wales-on-the-subtler-risks-of-AI One of Jimbo's contentions is that AI written content will degrade the whole media ecosystem which will have a knock on ...

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https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/26/1088137/wikimedia-wikipedia-cto-selena-deckelmann-ai-human-contributions/ By Rebecca Ackermann Selena Deckelmann argues that in this era of machine-generated content, Wikipedia becomes even more valuable. Selena Deckelmann has never been afraid of people o...

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Archive of the Coast to Coast AM broadcast: https://zfirelight.blogspot.com/2024/02/02-25-24-wikipedia-cabal-afterlife.html?m=1 Going off the handful reactions in the CtCAM subreddit, https://old.reddit.com/r/coasttocoastam/comments/1b04kyl/tonights_show_225_wikipedia_cabal_afterlife/ the reaction f...

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I mentioned this in my original post, but as a reminder, in around 5 hours or so (1 AM EST) popular paranormal radio program Coast to Coast AM is airing an episode about this. The host George Knapp (television journalist) Wikipedia article was one of the subjects of contention. You can read the epi...

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The "Wikipedia Skeptic" section of the broadcast has finished. Overall I think it was kinda meh, though not entirely without merit. Heatherly was rambling and didn't clearly explain the wiki-jargon enough to make sense to non-Wikipedians. Knapp admitting that he used Wikipedia for research was a bit...

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I mentioned this in my original post, but as a reminder, in around 5 hours or so (1 AM EST) popular paranormal radio program Coast to Coast AM is airing an episode about this. The host George Knapp (television journalist) Wikipedia article was one of the subjects of contention. You can read the epis...

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Modern Encyclopaedia Britannica online is full of mistakes that I've noted in my area of subject expertise (paleontology). I could list them, but I doubt members here would be interested in the subject matter. Maybe not. But they are very interested in paddling the EB due to the undeserving lengths...

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Modern Encyclopaedia Britannica online is full of mistakes that I've noted in my area of subject expertise (paleontology). I could list them, but I doubt members here would be interested in the subject matter.

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WPO is falling behind the competition: https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipediacriticism/comments/19dqhp7/the_uap_community_has_turned_against_wikipedia/ earned 1 upvote by sharing a video with 20K views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq-GuSs8kX8&ab_channel=TheGoodTroubleShowwithMattFord That YouTuber ...

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I'm just going to insert the obligatory "Captain Obvious" comment here and point out that 556 signatures on a non-trolling change.org petition after three weeks is... well, pretty much pathetic. I'm inclined to agree honestly. The infamous 2013 WP:LUNATIC change.org petition got 10,000 signings. Th...

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See https://www.change.org/p/demand-wikipedia-to-dismiss-editors-suppressing-uap-phenomenon-information Full disclosure: I am named as one of the "problematic" editors named in the petition, but I don't really regularly edit about UFOs, This all started back in January, as detailed in Wikipedia:Frin...

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I think crudely dismissing all of the people involved in the Israel Palestine topic area, one of the world's most contentious disputes, as "simps" for one side or the other is pretty reductive, no?

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If someone separates from their partner and RS don't mention it, the simplest thing to do is just remove any mention of it entirely. Oftentimes a person's relationships are trivial biographical material whos excision doesn't really negatively impact the content.

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Yeah, mainspace IP editing is a lot more problematic than an IP making a post on a noticeboard reporting problems in an article.

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Two interesting recent articles In The Atlantic and Slate about the increasingly degraded state of Quora. Both articles focus on how the profit-driven motive of Quora leadership ultimately resulted in the decline of question quality, the rise of toxicity and trolling and drove away the highest quali...

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Randy from Boise wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 10, 2024 5:58 pm

Hemiauchenia wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 10, 2024 12:09 am
Seeing shit like this really makes you think that allowing IP users to edit BLPs is a terrible idea.
Letting IP users edit anything is a terrible idea.

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I agree, but for BLPs it is especially bad.

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Here's another photo of a man wearing an "anti facial recognition mask"

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I remember responding to a post at BLPN in early 2023 ( Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard/Archive346#Henry_Travillion_Wingate ) where an IP user was adding references to a self-published book to an article about Henry Travillion Wingate , a judge in Mississippi. The book is a polem...

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FelinaLavandula wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:22 pm
Anyone in this thread smoke weed?

No, but I was once offered a spliff at a party while I was at university. I declined because I exist on the verge of instanity anyway and I didn't want to risk getting drug-induced psychosis.

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I literally removed the info from the infobox after writing the comment, you can stop bashing me for it. Also Nableezy correctly pointed out that the NPR article was about Alex Bakri, a completely different actor, which was a careless error on my part. I can't find a source explicitly calling Adam a...

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Hemiauchenia changed the first sentence to just: Adam Bakri (Arabic: آدم بكري; born May 15, 1988) is a Palestinian actor. Instead he added the following to the biography section: Bakri was born in Jaffa, Israel.[2][3] Bakri is a Palestinian citizen of Israel.[4] 😩 I don't get what your point is? Do...

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Clearly an unwarranted comment by Bbb23, but at the same time there are many YouTube videos that claim Wikipedia to be biased, and unless they actually result in disruptive editing its premature to make an AN post like this.

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Will anyone edit on my behalf? That’s what I’m looking for. I just don’t see what the problem is. The deletion is of long-standing information, and it was done by a random IP for clearly biased reasons. Nobody's going to edit on your behalf because you're a banned user. Have you not seen the recent...

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I only really know the Binkster from his editing of the MRA adjacent Male expendability (T-H-L) article, which seemed err, rather supportive of the hypothesis.

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It's a bit strange to make a whole thread about this and not even link the hbomberguy video that you're talking about yDp3cB5fHXQ . Wikipedia plagiarism makes up comparatively little of the runtime, though it's been known for years that many YouTubers are lazy and will just read Wikipedia without do...

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I don't recall HistoryOfIran engaging at ANI in other people's threads, but (impression formed by reading ANI regularly like it was Soap Opera Digest) he opens more threads than anyone else. HistoryOfIran is also reported regularly for alleged edit warring or POV pushing. Usually with the result th...

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Another addition to this saga. Another scammer is pretending to be Brendan Conway regarding the obscure and likely non notable Canadian actor Andrew Tite https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=1197301432 , who is not to be confused with the British-American misogynist of a similar name. This is n...

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As noted at that ANI thread, BYU staff members have to uphold an oath of fealty to the church. They're far from neutral observers, and need to be kept on a close leash. I've had my disagreements with HEB, but in my opinion they are right on the money regarding this issue,.

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Another CFdJ from a few days ago, this time from Wikimedia Commons. Back in 2016 a supposed photo of the Universidad Nacional Experimental Politécnica de la Fuerza Armada Bolivariana (National Polytechnic Experimental University of the Armed Forces) in Caracas, Venezuela https://commons.wikimedia.or...

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The issue with Wikipedia competitors is they tend to not perform in search well. Perhaps due to copypasting too much stuff from existing websites, or perhaps due to manipulation from Google, which has a well-known close-connection with Wikipedia. Unfortunately, it's a fact that Google ranking is th...

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As noted elsewhere on this forum probably Mzajac (T-C-L), barely uses the tools and is somewhat of a controversial editor in the Eastern Europe topic area.

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