Wikipediocracy

Wer900

:facepalm: Word to the wise: Do Not Engage In Email Exchanges With Jimmy Wales . Guy's a serious creep, so always bring a chaperone. Jimmy Wales initiated this one, so I am not to blame. That's good advice. Even if you proved, beyond any doubt, that D1000 was editing for money, Jimbo would still fi...

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SB_Johnny wrote: Word to the wise: Do Not Engage In Email Exchanges With Jimmy Wales.

Guy's a serious creep, so always bring a chaperone.

Jimmy Wales initiated this one, so I am not to blame.

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Via email from the God-King Himself: You seemed to imply in a comment that Demiurge1000 engages in paid editing. Is that a known fact? Although this implication may have been gleaned from the comment that I made on Jimbotalk, it was specifically geared at the broader body politic of Wikipedia subver...

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It's time to do away with all of these "arms" and "barnstars" and replace them with proper governance. Agreed; and I'm sure you will be among the first to renounce your honours. This editor has been awarded the Original Barnstar This editor has been awarded Shrike's Nectarine Pie This editor has be...

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My dear Wer, I object to none of your proposals. In fact, I believe it's a pity that you don't have supreme autocratic power over both the Wikipedia and the Universe it purports to describe. -Alex I don't want autocratic power over Wikipedia, I want to implement a proper constitution as soon as pos...

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In a word, no.

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It's time to do away with all of these "arms" and "barnstars" and replace them with proper governance. Agreed; and I'm sure you will be among the first to renounce your honours. This editor has been awarded the Original Barnstar This editor has been awarded Shrike's Nectarine Pie This editor has be...

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Wer, your detailed proposals for Wikipedia reform always bring to my mind the Committee_of_Public_Safety http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Cruikshank_-_The_Radical%27s_Arms.png I would be curious to know what sort of reformed constitution you have in mind for the USA. http://upload...

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This one is more of a predictive hunch. Over the next few months, keep your eye on Universal American , which received a not insubstantial upgrade last year from an IP address emanating from the company's network . Universal American is now hunting for a new Director, Social Media & Content Marketi...

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It's time to do away with all of these "arms" and "barnstars" and replace them with proper governance.

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Not sure if this should be a new thread or not, but this (http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/is-wikipedia-for-sale) further shows how flawed Wikipedia's investigation is on this one. I have evidence to clearly show how badly flawed it is, but unfortunately cannot disclose it. I don't like paid editin...

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I thought that this was a bad site. But as we already know, power players and insiders definitely do use Wikipediocracy to keep track of public opinion, even if they're not willing to admit it. It's a guilty pleasure to lurk here. I wish a few more WP partisans would write here, it would spice thin...

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I thought that this was a bad site. But as we already know, power players and insiders definitely do use Wikipediocracy to keep track of public opinion, even if they're not willing to admit it. It's a guilty pleasure to lurk here. I wish a few more WP partisans would write here, it would spice thin...

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Mancunium wrote:
Alison wrote:Thank you - that is a million times better that what was there. It has warmth to it.
+1

Thank you, Scott Martin.

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I thought that this was a bad site. But as we already know, power players and insiders definitely do use Wikipediocracy to keep track of public opinion, even if they're not willing to admit it.

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Hex wrote:
Wer900 wrote:trash subjects ... books
Wat.

I am referring to books like When God Writes Your Love Story (T-H-L), recently featured on the main page.

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Again, in the hard sciences, I have had my writing critiqued to a great extent by highly experienced reviewers. There is strong evidence that the 'hard sciences' are no better than the humanities. Key articles are full of nonsense and idiocies. I know. I am only stating that hard science FAs and GA...

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The featured article now is Brockway Mountain Drive . The writing of the article is typical wikibabble, lots of disjointed factoids: A bit of pedantry regarding factoid: the -oid suffix means "resembling." It's not a diminutive. (I assume that TFA underwent basic fact-checking so that they're not a...

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As if we didn't know this already... But this is not the wind made new... I have a new catchphrase... RfB What I really wanted to say was that Sue Gardner has been complicit in all of this for very long and in her manner of speech shows no repentance for the rampant corruption under her tenure and ...

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lilburne wrote:
in around 1345 under Richard II it ... copyright Ironholds (aka OKeys, aka dimwit)

The difference is that I am not an insider and he is.

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The featured article now is Brockway Mountain Drive . The writing of the article is typical wikibabble, lots of disjointed factoids: A bit of pedantry regarding factoid: the -oid suffix means "resembling." It's not a diminutive. (I assume that TFA underwent basic fact-checking so that they're not a...

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If Walsh is really leaving, then it should be okay to pay $200,000 or even more to get rid of him. I hope that in time Jimmy Wales appoints a successor and cashes out too. I don't care how much is spent on removing these people, so long as the Foundation remains able to conduct major projects by the...

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I understand that Kww and JamesBWatson have much larger aces up their sleeves. However, this does summarize the "house POV" toward socks.

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Thumbs up. PR peeps: stick to normal site style, don't violate NPOV, and don't be an idiot or an asshole. And declare your COI on the talk page, I will add. You had it up until the last sentence. If you're doing everything well up to that point, there's no need to tape the "Kick Me" sign on yoursel...

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My advice is this: just write. You can shut the drama off by skipping AN, AN/I, any and all RFCs, AfD, and Jimbotalk. That's very true; I rarely do those anymore, except for the brief spells when power players who are out for my blood take me there. However, even the content side of the project has...

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Dear Diary, I have decided to return to Wikipedia editing after being blocked for three months because I consider the project to be of an exceedingly high importance. I won't be driven off by the irrational behaviour of certain editors. Any difficulties encountered are to be tolerated or addressed ...

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From Jimbotalk , emphasis mine SPI is a process for editors to gain attention from administrators and checkusers. SPI isn't required (or even recommended) for obvious socks. SPI would go into immediate overload if every sock was taken through SPI, Liz. I process them directly, sometimes because I n...

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You missed the best paragraph: One critic, Gregory Kohs, cofounder of the muck-raking site Wikipediocracy, describes the foundation’s appetite for expansion as “empire building.” He argues that the work of a nearly 200-member Wikimedia staff could easily be done by a workforce a fraction of the siz...

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As if we didn't know this already...

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This is plain unethical. I hope that a patient of Dr. Placic's is willing to speak out.

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Is there not a difference between sharing among medical staff and patients of your own practice and posting information on the freely accessible Internet?

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Please, Eric, transfer this to the book wiki as an original archive, even if you don't use it in your book. If any new developments happen this case could be oversighted; we cannot allow it to disappear from history, though. The arbitration pages, or this thread? Arbitration pages, undoubtedly. I a...

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Please, Eric, transfer this to the book wiki as an original archive, even if you don't use it in your book. If any new developments happen this case could be oversighted; we cannot allow it to disappear from history, though.

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Hot on Jimbeau's talk page: User talk:Jimbo Wales#complain Dear supervisor my name is Somar and I want to complain about the Articles in Arabic and being different from what it is in all other languages and express opinions that is not required and are not considered neutral, where your site is co...

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Gerard indefinitely restricted in his use of tools on transgender articles. That effectively emasculates Gerard. Fuck up again and it's into the lion's den, Davie boy. Fear not, lad, he's got plenty of admin sockpuppets..... Examples? I am not doubting your assertion but I would like more detail. R...

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I consider myself a transhumanist, but I am certainly not a nut like Ray Kurzweil or his Wikipediots admirers. Computers as we know them cannot store and process information like our brains can, and last for such short time periods that any pretense of "immortality" is bogus regardless. To me, the o...

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Honestly, we need to stop such a palace coup from happening. If that happens, the chance of change will range from zero to none. Jimmy had better accept the role of constitutional monarch and kick out his idle nobles, who waste space and accrue power. ¡Viva la revolución! "Constitutional monarchs" ...

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The Devil's Advocate wrote:
Kiefer.Wolfowitz wrote:islands of sanity at Wikipedia.
You are not fooling anyone Kiefer. We all know such things do not exist.

Astronomy and Spaceflight also appear to be islands of sanity; I see little to no drama there. Fringe theorists in those areas are often dealt with in an expedient fashion.

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So, even if the articles created are beneficial, to dissuade paid editors, we must delete and salt them? "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it." - - - Unknown US Army officer, Vietnam, 1968 We need to stop paid editors from editing Wikipedia directly. To start with, make CU tools avai...

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So, even if the articles created are beneficial, to dissuade paid editors, we must delete and salt them? "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it." - - - Unknown US Army officer, Vietnam, 1968 We need to stop paid editors from editing Wikipedia directly. To start with, make CU tools avai...

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As mentioned in another thread, a useless palace coup, as opposed to a popular revolution, looks likely.

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Honestly, we need to stop such a palace coup from happening. If that happens, the chance of change will range from zero to none. Jimmy had better accept the role of constitutional monarch and kick out his idle nobles, who waste space and accrue power. ¡Viva la revolución!

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Vigilant wrote:Adios, motherfucker.

One more bad actor gone.

A new David Gerard anointee will take the role. Don't get ahead of yourself.

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Jimbo needs to become the next Louis XVI. He needs to accept limitations on his powers or face the consequences. He also needs to remove David Gerard.

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President of India#Origin India thus became the first republic[10] to belong to the Commonwealth and this precedent was followed in subsequent decades by other countries that either adopted a monarchy separate from that shared by the Commonwealth realms or became republics & thus The President acts...

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Sorry, couldn't resist. Replace "phony God's blessings" with "the work of others" and you summarize the Wikipedia ethos well (although the original may also work for a plurality of Wikipediots).

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None of this matters.

David Gerard needs an Okeyes-style defrocking.

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EricBarbour wrote:
spp wrote:Racepacket, is that you?
Kindly take this back to Wikipedia, where it belongs. Thank you.

Who is Racepacket?

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ANDREAS, WIKIPEDIA IS TOTALLY CLEAN, NOTHING TO SEE HERE, PLEASE MOVE ON, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE...

And when we move on, the

cycle continues its slow motion.

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Why did corrupt T. Canens abstain on David Gerard's desysopping?

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