Wikipediocracy

EricBarbour

this is BULLSHIT.

ALL wikis are "incel wikis". By automatic definition. Because incels have the time and the irrational fixations to control a public wiki, and to fight off anyone who disagrees with them.

EricBarbour

Tamzin, dear......

.....are you Film Threat writer Phil Hall?

Because he was notorious for sockpuppeting on Wikipedia. And I have a note that you were suspected of being him some years ago, under the usernames Francophonie&Androphilie and PinkAmpersand.

EricBarbour

tarantino wrote:Edited: So you post hateful commentary from others as humor, and it was so offensive or unfunny, other Edditors removed it.

so I take it that's a "no" on the book wiki?............

EricBarbour

And how can anyone ever take you seriously when you post shit like this ? Ed's soft spot for you is very hard to rationalize. I did NOT write any of those, Mr. Genius. Your Friendly Wikipedians wrote them, and posted them on IRC or other places. Do they OFFEND you? Try watching the WP-related Disco...

EricBarbour

So if you had access to the wiki, why didn't you correct things? I believe the error message he quoted meant there was a configuration error, which would have prevented him from even seeing the main page. I could be wrong... You are. Ed took it down a few months ago. Tarantino had YEARS to edit the...

EricBarbour

And this is why I've given up on this forum. You would rather talk about Disney.

EricBarbour

:rotfl: At this rate it's going to end up being a book about Wikipedia's first 40 years.... I'm so very happy that you find this shitshow amusing. Where were you from 2011 to 2014 when Ed, Andreas, myself and others were compiling that giant mountain of unreadable mental-illness displays? Realistic...

EricBarbour

I've had access to the book wiki for years, but haven't looked at it recently because it appears to be broken. I haven't asked Ed about it because he seems to have lost interest in wikipedia. Aren't you lucky--I had the entire contents of it converted into .odt and .pdf format files for just this e...

EricBarbour

The price is: Tarantino has to accept a full copy of the book notes, and correct any errors he finds.

Not negotiable.

Email me metasonix at gmail when you agree.

EricBarbour

Would anyone like to see the book-wiki material about some of these "major Wikipedians"? I could post it. But there's a price. So far, chapters include: From Utopia to Practice and Back by Yochai Benkler The many (reported) deaths of Wikipedia by Joseph Reagle How Wikipedia Drove Professors Crazy, M...

EricBarbour

Vigilant wrote:
EricBarbour wrote:Fancy pictures snipped
To what do we owe this honor?

EricBarbour

Eric also made it sound like the Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident was the most significant contributory factor in the explosive-growth phase from 2004-2006, but that didn't happen until late 2005 and they were almost at the peak of their growth curve at that point B U L L S H I T http://i5...

EricBarbour

Media is exploding with stories about the 15th anniversary, plus the endowment. AP affiliates are running it "blind", esp. small local papers. Obviously the WMF were spoon-feeding info to this AP reporter days prior. It was coordinated to run today. Also, I'm quoted in many of the stories. http://ma...

EricBarbour

Amusing that now that I'm off this forum, things are happening and people are talking to me openly. Did anyone notice this? Because there was almost no discussion about it before. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Endowment Apparently there is some kind of "buzz" that the WMF will now set up an endowm...

EricBarbour

Randy from Boise wrote:I've asked Jim H. ("Cullen328") to take a walk on the wild side here to discuss such things. I hope he pops by, he is a very nice person and smart as hell. I'm sure Eric Barbour would hate him.

EricBarbour

tarantino wrote:you got Euryalus wrong. Remember when I sent you that link last year?

Please, feel free to refresh my memory.

EricBarbour

http://www.wikipedia-sucks-badly.blogsp ... pedia.html

Suck it.

EricBarbour

Auggie wrote:So is that whole blog just Barbour with a bunch of sockpuppets?

EricBarbour

unwanted wrote:Eric's notion that I am a member of the Aruban Secret Police is lunacy on its face.

EricBarbour

EricBarbour

Greg is right, the media coverage is shit. Otherwise this thread is also inadequate. I saw Orangemoody a month ago and ignored him/them/it because it all seemed overly trivial. Also, the long-term-abuse page is being mishandled. Some of the socks are blocked for good reasons, some are blocked for no...

EricBarbour

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-33055855 I do hope Mr Shapps, whose politics I abhor, decides to sue both Richard Symonds and the WMUK into the stone age. If that is what the BBC thinks of this "affair", then they are stupid, and no one else really gives a serious damn. Symonds will remain and ...

EricBarbour

What makes you think that the per capita dickhead factor is lower in the general population of software guys than that of the open source software guys? I never made such an outright claim. The "general population of software guys" works for for-profit companies, who expect their software to work ,...

EricBarbour

As one of the VLC developers complains, SourceForge (the world's most popular distribution site for open-source software for many years) has turned into just another scummy commercial download site, complete with screaming ads and malware installers disguised as "Download" buttons. Figured this wou...

EricBarbour

Neotarf wrote:It's amazing what can be done with the Reader's Guide and a few fiche readers, isn't it.

If more "Wikipedians" did that, rather than lazily Googling everything, Wikipedia would be quite a lot better than it is.

EricBarbour

It's amusing that you are mocking this situation: this is the reason that Wikipedia decided against, and continues not to use advertising to support itself, instead raising millions of dollars in charity, while still not paying professional editors. Nobody seems to notice when a site does advertisi...

EricBarbour

1. manga/anime, especially the awful stuff made by J.C.Staff . What do you find awful about J.C.Staff's work? They're fallen a long way since Utena, man They tend to make the worst kind of magical-schoolgirl panty-shot stuff. Material that normal adults would find intolerable but pedophilic anime f...

EricBarbour

As one of the VLC developers complains, SourceForge (the world's most popular distribution site for open-source software for many years) has turned into just another scummy commercial download site, complete with screaming ads and malware installers disguised as "Download" buttons. Figured this woul...

EricBarbour

This editor's editing history shows that he patrols the US theme park articles fairly heavily and reverts negative information, such as this one by yours truly. I troll the theme park articles every now and then because, in my experience, they seem to receive a suspicious amount of protection again...

EricBarbour

thekohser wrote:and assorted inanity from Phil Hall

THE Phil Hall? As in, Pastor Theo?

EricBarbour

OccultZone is one bizarre dude. Look at his early edits, before he discovered bots. Another ADHD victim from India?
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... OccultZone

EricBarbour

That's very funny. If the WMF had the importance of its projects represented in proportion to population, the Mandarin and India-language Wikipedias would be the biggest and best-run, and there would be far more information about Africa. Fail on all counts.

EricBarbour

To be "charitable", a search of Knowledgekid87 (T-C-L)'s recent editing shows that he only cares about two things:

1. manga/anime, especially the awful stuff made by J.C.Staff (T-H-L).
2. fighting with people on AFDs and noticeboards.

He deserves them and they deserve him.

EricBarbour

Well, they didn't go for it, at least not yet. Give Slashdot another 24 hours to be sure.

(Admittedly this report about Google is much more hilarious/disgusting. Yes, WMF, everyone in tech has the same problem, it's hostile to women and some ethnicities. And everyone lies about it. Or tries to.)

EricBarbour

You SHOULD call him on it. Jesus shit on a stick. ::I don't think anyone would say that my editing history indicates that I am a POV pusher or that I wreck articles with synthesis or unsubstantiated claims. However, many editors I have had disagreements with would likely say I have been rude, short,...

EricBarbour

Midsize Jake wrote:But this strikes me more as a nice solid background piece to use when referring people to this aspect of Jimbo's career, not something that's likely to go viral and turn into a Big Hairy Deal.

Perhaps, but it's what we have on the menu this week. (Why don't you write a couple of blog posts?)

EricBarbour

How about "A tale of greed, influence peddling, and blood-stained money given to Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia. The story of Wales's ascent in the bizarre world of ex-prime Minister Tony Blair, advisor and fixer for brutal dictators." Good start, here we go. http://slashdot.org/submission/44...

EricBarbour

I'll try posting it on Slashdot if you tell me how to assemble a description.

EricBarbour

If they had half a brain cell between them, the Wikipedians would have two articles for people who change gender. Or at least some kind of coherent policy on handling these cases. Instead, they fight and produce shredded shit.

EricBarbour

And don't forget this guy:

http://www.rferl.mobi/a/how-to-guide-ru ... 19999.html

EricBarbour

Ujae Atoll : 0.72 square miles, population 448. Article size: 2.8k. Wake Island : 2.73 square miles, population 85. Article size: 75k. Guess which one has a US military base on it. It's the same deal for all the islands in the group. Generally true for all kinds of WP subject areas. You can use the...

EricBarbour

Ocaasi posted a link to a publication regarding The Wikipedia Adventure (TWA) on my talk page, which he claims "confirmed, beyond self-selection or confirmation bias, that being invited to play TWA leads to more communicative editors" (see this ). I have since read through this publication (I have ...

EricBarbour

This seems aimed at me so it deserves a reply, though it needs some mind-reading. So, trying to work out what the criticism is, I now consult my own feelings to see where I feel uncomfortable. Should I be contributing much to a site dedicated to WP criticism if I am not prepared to study WP in dept...

EricBarbour

For an example of a BLP that is relatively even-handed, consider Mark Fuller . Then read this Salon article about his charming marital history. Some parts aren't even mentioned on Wikipedia. A very disgusting story. Following his arrest, Fuller was able to strike a plea deal for a pretrial diversion...

EricBarbour

I remember reading, I think it was a Wikipediocracy blog post, about a teenager who was performing administrative tasks on pornographic images on Commons and no one else on Commons seemed to mind. That is extremely disturbing. That was Juliancolton, and was discussed back in 2009 on WR. And he was ...

EricBarbour

Strange that all references to 'Bellagnome' were added into articles by Mr Camelbinky his very self. To be clear: * Mr Meislin is the founder and sole employee of TSM LLC. * TSM LLC shares a street address with Mr Meislin * Mr Meislin is quoted in many tedious local newsrag 'articles' promoting Hen...

EricBarbour

Heh. Hopefully the younger set won't dismiss this as "old news". Jimbo basically drilled himself deeply into the Labourite crowd, and so far they've welcomed him as if he were a long-lost son. Or something. Do grifters have telepathic contact with other grifters? Thanks for adding the link to the El...

EricBarbour

When you think of Nixon, what's the first thing to come to mind? Futurama? Lucky him (?), millennials will think immediately of this when you say "Richard Nixon". http://findicons.com/files/icons/1227/futurama_vol_5_heads_in_jars/128/richard_nixon_s_head.png And BTW, why can't more politician BLPs ...

EricBarbour

Damn, that's a good one......

EricBarbour

I don't think BLP is going to make any difference whatsoever if the allegation is reported in the NY Times. Hastert has a 30-plus-year career in politics. He was the GOP House Speaker for eight years. Whether you like him, are indifferent to him, or hate him (and I personally tend towards the latte...

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