Wikipediocracy

Alison

I'm disappointed in Alison and Beeblebrox for failing to be accurate and precise about what happened on Wikipedia this year, and for being seemingly disinterested in the motivations and experiences of others who have less power than them in the community. That's okay - I can live with your disappoi...

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I'm really not sure why I'm being dragged into this, given the last time I had face-to-face contact with Flyer22 was like 12 years ago and I'm semi-retired these days. Seems like a whole lot of time-wasting drama to me, and I really just want to move on at this point. Do I feel duped somewhat by Fly...

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Doing okay, Vigilant - just staying away from WP these days and keeping my head down :) https://i.ibb.co/bKsd7zm/17309012-10154861093141001-7157287721138731879-n.jpg Re. to my 'weirdo' comments earlier, I found this today whilst going through some archives. Not sure who the editor was, but the targe...

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It would just be giving her ammunition for DARVO. Doesn't seem like a compelling reason not to publish their real name to me. <de-lurk> Yeah, I'm not super happy about any of this this. I'm aware of the most recent evidence too and find it ... compelling ... to say the least. I feel duped somewhat ...

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FWIW, the case against Larson was dismissed without prejudice yesterday.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap ... 87.0_1.pdf

Still no reliable source, but he's almost certainly dead.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1091128751

Someone with a sense of humour ...

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And wait - spring onions? Really?? Another example of Wikipedia going off into areas in which it has absolutely no expertise, which will rapidly become to gold standard for cooking colcannon. I'll have people correcting me at some point, because "Wikipedia clearly says so" - never mind that my famil...

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The https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colcannon,French article uses Smirkybec's choice. OMG - what?? This is just wrong. Let me state right now that Colcannon does in no way, have bacon in it. Potatoes, kale, onion, salt, pepper, butter (lots of it). But bacon? Absolutely not!! Thanks, Wikipedia, for l...

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So clearly the challenge is to find someone who can make Irish food, smear it with sex lubricants, turn some spotlights on the result and examine it without throwing up. Colcannon and Crisco oil? :popcorn: I uploaded that Colcannon photo like a decade ago, in my kitchen. I'm shocked to see they're ...

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thekohser wrote:
Randy from Boise wrote:Discuss.
Yes, we have been.

Merge, mods?

Done! Not sure how I did that, as I'm not supposed to have mod privs (I thought), and was just swinging by. Anyways - done

Alison

Nope. Not the first time ....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luka_Magnotta

https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Luka_Magnotta

Alison

I clicked over and picked a random page; Pizzagate is a crowdsourced investigation by independent researchers and commentators into an alleged connection between child sexual abuse and people closely associated with Hillary Clinton. The investigation began in October 2016 after vs. Wikipedia's; Pizz...

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Annnnd blocked, by Odder, no less. The reason given was related to Oversight, for some reason.

Alison

You couldn't make it up. WayneRay was deleted in 2012 with the comment "Contact Arbcom before restoring". But because the Global Profile extension is now operational, he has a user page again - because GlobalProfile will show your Meta user page on any wiki where you don't have a user page. So ther...

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Discussion of the new interim director, Katherine Maher, moved to here.

Alison

"Thank you for our time together" :blink: Dear fellow Wikimedians It is with great respect that I have tendered, and the board has accepted, my resignation as Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation earlier this week. I am both inspired by, and proud of, the many great things we have all acc...

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Why are you editing Wikipedia in Ireland? Participate in this survey to share how Wikimedia Community Ireland can support you! Why is this message appearing on the main page? I'm not in Ireland, but I can apparently take the survey anyway. :unsure: They're rolling out this message to people who may...

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greybeard wrote:It'll make no never-mind, as the Oirish never tell the truth.

Alison

Sad to hear that. He was a kind, easy-going kinda guy.

(I'm guessing Filceolaire is a portmanteau of "Fil" (poetry) "Ceol" (music) "Aire" (expert - sorta) from the Irish language.)

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... Go-to reference site founder

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I'd no idea that "retrospect" was a verb until now.

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Mods! This thread should be merged with this one

Done!

Alison

Then, see this... https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MyWikiBiz&diff=next&oldid=655192689 You see, it's okay for hundreds of thousands of Wikipedia articles to have lat-long coordinates on them, but with MyWikiBiz, it's "excessive". And that according to my good pal Alison, of all people! I ...

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Oh, well done, indeed!! That's a major improvement

Also, it has the added benefit of making Btphelps rage, which can't be bad. He's had his way with that article for years now.

Alison

Spotted this on FB, via Andrew Lih:

BREAKING: English Wikipedia functionaries and WMF uncover a vast sock puppet network engaged in paid editing with a new twist - a protection racket.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... rangemoody

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Triptych wrote:I think that a checkuser can see a user's email address if he or she has entered one in Wikipedia's email function.

Nope!

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Wiki Conferences: you just never know who might show up.

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Nope, too late to stop Wikipedia administrator Scott, formerly Scott Martin, formerly Hex, formerly ? from being resysoped. Hmmm. I'm waiting for an answer back from Alison about a recent edit of mine that she suppressed. I just got back from Big Sur a few hours back, so pardon the delay. I was lar...

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2-5% of the population? That's insane or the definition is looser than a car door on a 72 Pinto I might give 'em 0.2 to 0.5% although that is still probably a little high... RfB More like 1 in 12,000 for Male-to-Female, and 1 in 30,000 for Female-to-Male, but it depends on the study, criteria, etc....

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Vigilant wrote:Drop me a PM.

Done!

Alison

The bit about coding is also a little off. Being a good coder actually *will* get you pretty far in Silly Valley - and I mean good , not mediocre. I'm talking about C, primarily - not Javascript, as the article mentions. People with good embedded / "nuts-n-bolts" experience are surprisingly rare dow...

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There is also a real life toll bridge troll: one who lives under the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor. The Canadian government is building another bridge as a way to starve the toll bridge troll. Here is the name of the toll bridge troll: Manuel Moroun . We also have a somewhat famous ...

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Very offensive to suggest that Alison in her WP CheckUser capacity has aided in any way whatsoever any of the identity-investigating activities that have ever taken place on this website. Thank you, Greg. It's not something I'd do. It's disappointing to see that he has no problems badmouthing me on...

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For the record, I have not - and will not - ever use Checkuser for any purpose off-wiki. It's against what I signed up for and my personal integrity precludes this, and it's a position of trust, one I've held for quite a few years now. Similarly, I won't break the rules or confidences of this site -...

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Here's one I found earlier today, in the bollocks (T-H-L) article, aptly enough. Completely bogus, of course. It stayed there almost four years ...

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Off-topic posts split to here

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So my question to Alison stands, do you think Ironholds has the maturity and discretion for this job. Having raw server log access? No, I don't think he has. I've seen plenty of examples of his 'maturity' ... Must be fun writing scripts to snarf and parse logs - you could find out all sorts of stuf...

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I hear they have some pretty awesome C++ hackers, though

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Kelly Martin and Alison have been thoughtful and well informed on discussions of WMF organization, of Wikimedia products and services, and of software in general. Each has been on WMF staff or has at least served as an officer of the English Wikipedia. I'm not aware that either of them was ever a p...

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The first half-dozen edits were suppressed by me, actually. RL names of alleged victims were mentioned without a shred of supporting evidence. That's all I can say.

Alison

I am opposed to Paid Editing!! Opposed, I tell you!

I do not approve of MyWikiBiz. We hates it, we does!!

Alison

Someone needs to code a bot comprising of code that re-adds 'comprised of' back into articles from which the comprise as been excised, so to speak. Lather, rinse, repeat. :popcorn: That would be blocked straight away by Wikipedians from the BAG (Bot Approvals Group) for running without permission. ...

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Probably 80% of the Wikipedians I've looked at who had a Myers-Briggs rating on their userpage said they were INTJ. I seem to be INFP. I wonder what proportion of people who get pissed off with the ruthlessness of WP are that. That is actually a reasonable question, and it would be interesting to s...

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A minor case of the Streisand effect (sans legal action) being inflicted, Mr. Giraffedata will have to "fix" more edits comprised of comprised of soon. Someone needs to code a bot comprising of code that re-adds 'comprised of' back into articles from which the comprise as been excised, so to speak....

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This year, Stanford students each pay $44,184 in annual tuition, and they will take out a $7.4 million in student loans. And that only scratches the surface. Palo Alto is one of the most costly places to live in the United States, with perpetual student-housing shortages, sky-high rents , and an av...

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Well, I'll see if the account you're all thinking about is making any decent posts in accordance with the goal of this site: criticizing Wikipedia. It's okay Zoloft. I haven't really been contributing much recently anyway. Sorry about this. Take it easy everyone. Dun be going anywhere. While I ofte...

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BTW, as this has hit the broader media, it's not being received very well amongst women's groups. Amongst some women-only tech mailing lists, it's being viewed as Wikipedia (ArbCom = Wikipedia, to the layperson) caving in to the Gamergate crowd and censoring and silencing feminists and women. And th...

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I stayed indoors the entire time. It's the only way to be safe.

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Rather than starting a new thread about those IAC nutjobs, I'll just leave this here because it's sort of related. Wikipediocracy is a forum run by paid editor [Greg] who has also hacked the Commons Admin a/c of "Russavia", like Thekohser earlier did WP-Admin:Cool3's a/c. At least it didn't come fr...

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Oh - shots fired! Odder re-instates Russavia's admin bit , stating, "Commons adminship is a community prerogative and lies outside of the remit of the Wikimedia Foundation" No harm done. Obviously, he can't use his awesome powers, and Odder demonstrates to the world what a brilliant functionary he ...

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