Wikipediocracy

Midsize Jake wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:08 pm

underrated post of the topic.

I don't know if disrespectful is the right term, but if I was Fram I'm not sure I'd be happy about "Framming" becoming a word. It does kind of single him out as the only person brave enough to do this sort of thing, which does not sound very appealing. I mean sure, it might mean that some people re...

The Blue Newt wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:41 am
Michael Patrick Coyle (T-H-L).

aka Zarplod (T-C-L)

I removed a lot of off-topic and toxic posts.

If anyone not banned would like any of their removed post content sent to them for reuse, PM me.

Thanks!

Come to us, Fram.

We have your user avatar all ready:

Please get back on topic which is... *checks* Rodeo clowns? *shakes head* No, not that.

Oh yeah, Maher, NPR, and glib vacuity.

Removed some guano. Carry on, now. No shitposting.

Based Banned.

All right, I have found a fuck to give.

I admire Molly White on several fronts, especially her efforts to combat the nonsense and chicanery on the cryptocurrency front. I also believe that no one can come away from Wikipedia completely unstained. It has some virtues, but it's severely toxic.

The problems that persist for me are adding smileys to posts, being repeatedly logged out when hitting submit to post or update my signature or send a private message, and repeatedly getting an error message when attempting to log in. That's likely a product of the caching 'fix' the hosting company...

I've been collecting 25 cent royalties every time my phrase "San Fran Ban"™ is uttered. In my never-ending desire to keep those quarters rolling in, I'm gonna come up with a fresh trademarked expression for this, ummm, manhandling of our right-wing friend: this is a Kumbaya Block .™ Get used to dic...

excellent overview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFkL4ME-8dQ I think Molly White did a great job of putting the Maher quotes in their proper context, but her audience is not people who get their news from Twitter. It will be interesting to see where this goes in the next couple of days. The ...

EverDissever wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:50 am
Hey I'm a rodeo clown

Spiff up your résumé. I'll write a letter of recommendation.

You could be head of NPR in a week or two.

*struggling to care about this subreddit*

*failing to care*

ERROR 555666555: FUCKS GIVEN NOT FOUND

rnu, why don't you contribute to the DYK process and step in when you see problematic hooks? It can't be harder than posting about them here. I'm not going to ask who you are on-wiki, but have you ever tried what you're suggesting? That is, have you ever found an obvious error in an upcoming hook, ...

People have failed to realize what a lightweight Maher is. I have sat next to her and heard her talk on the phone. I have read her social media takes, which often have the depth of one coat of paint. I have sat through her speeches and consumed a lot of her blithe and clueless business communication...

Vigilant wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:02 am
Well, we done voted for this new thing. How in the hell are we actually going to do it?!

Nice work ARBCOM...

Also, what are the new rules, asks nearly everyone.

New procedure: Flail.

*peers out of foxhole*

It's good for the last 24 hours.

Bezdomni wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:23 pm

I had to look back at the original blog post to see why we'd both had that weird dream... and discovered that the link doesn't work.

(the working link doesn't have a date in it.)

Fixed, thanks!

This Sleyece fellow is absolutely fascinating. He has this very LaRouche vibe. I'm going to vote for them in hope they get elected simply because it will take the wind out of the sails of the UCC to have this character among its illustrious tribunes. Yeah, no kidding. His candidate page from I assu...

I know, I should refrain from making puns in a language I barely speak... The election process for the U4C has begun. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Coordinating_Committee/Election/2024/Candidates,Here are the candidates and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_...

It seems Molly White is not a good spokesperson in unedited audio. But one thing she is, is an example of a prominent Wikipedian (and a vocal one) who's female. I've said before that I consider "Wikipedia editors are overwhelmingly male" to be a myth nurtured by the WMF for its own purposes based o...

At this moment, smooth sailing.

The transcript is a formless horror, so I edited out 146 instances of 'you know' - broke it up into readable chunks, and tried to fix the transcription errors. Trigger warning for Greg Kohs, there are dozens of sentences in this transcript that begin with the word 'So.' All Zone Media. Hello and wel...

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-offline/id1730587238?i=1000651261895,Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left ft. Molly White Wikipedia, a non-profit encyclopedia that anybody can edit, remains one of the few trustworthy and reliable websites left online. Ed Zitron is joined by critic, resear...

You both had moved on to broader topics of governance, such as whether the whole concept of bureaucrat should be 'deprecated.'

Plus we had a lot of Dennis Brown back-and-forth and some petty insults.

It's much nicer now. *puts away bowie knife*

This topic is about discussing the blog post and activities at Wikipedia related to it. I moved some 30 off-topic posts to the Oubliette.

Midsize Jake wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 11, 2024 5:36 am

ltbdl wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:48 am
uh, the lock isn't very secure
Well, we bought this one from Amazon.

Trying again...

It's got that interlock that keeps you from locking a topic just because you hates it.

*makes annoyed noise*

Not much new on the Nick Alahverdian story for the past month except for a judge refusing to compel prison officials to call him "Arthur Knight" and his lawyer getting his case continued to April 19. https://www.aol.com/nicholas-alahverdian-wants-utah-jailers-213523886.html/ If you want to support ...

If we can find out some things not covered in the media, let's scrape it together into a blog post.

Well, I'm glad THAT's over.

In my ongoing quest to avoid sitting down to finish the biography of Harry Ebding , I dove into the list of registered accounts at Wikipediocracy, databasing them into a sortable form. A few observations that will hopefully defang the bogeyman a little bit for our friends from outside this orbit. 1...

Is this saying that each user can have only one connection, or that there can only be one user connection? Technically it's both, but the "user" in that context isn't each individual visitor or forum member, it's the entire website. All of our requests to the database server come from our one hosti...

eppur si muove wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:41 am
Now that things have run their course, I wish to point out that the picture is of a creature stoatally different from a weasel.

But their pasture isn't on fire either.

I used a public domain image. Weaseled out.

>>Kumioko didn't show up on my list either... Kumioko 6609 Sun Mar 03, 2013 3:36 am (he's muted but not banned) >>I wish Poetlister didn't get axed, I liked what he brought to the table in terms of hunting the web for every mention of Wikipedia, no matter how far-flung, as a news aggregator. Oh, th...

Merged the two topics.

It’s gotten in the way of routine administration tasks.

I do understand Midsize Jake’s dilemma. I spent years in his shoes.

What’s the point of doing all this work to win a prize like that? A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. – Napoleon That's Napolean . I dare say it didn't even occur to them to find a quote from someone who didn't end their days in exile having been given a right good kick ...

I just checked to see how many signatures the petition has now (626). I scrolled down to see what kind of other petitions change.org has. I really wish I hadn't. :facepalm: Oh, you thought it only hosted serious petitions like this one? I was hoping this one was at the stupid end of the spectrum. N...

I need to correct something I said. While Exploring (Learning for Life) does not mention the sexual assault cases associated with the program, I overlooked the fact that there are separate articles for some of the Exploring programs. Specifically: Aviation Career Exploring Fire Service Exploring He...

Randy from Boise wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:25 pm
I reeeeeeeeally like Harry's little insult...

Phelps could not have picked a better time to have become more visible on COI issues...

eppur si muove wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 26, 2024 8:55 pm
Sandstein has learnt nothing about being a human being in the past decade.

Now, now, he may be good with animals and children outside of Wikipedia.

The offending comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Afrikaans_exonyms&diff=prev&oldid=1214906173 I think at this point Sandstein has passed thin-skinned and is now almost translucent. That's not the path to transparency we were looking for. Also, still v...

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Come back, Rachel!

Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:22 am

rnu wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:56 am
She was also married to Mortimer Wheeler (T-H-L), had an affair with Augustus John (T-H-L) and she shot Anthony Vivian, 5th Baron Vivian (T-H-L) with whom she also had an affair in the abdomen.
An affair in the abdomen, you say?

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wright-35057

A remarkable woman, not in Wikipedia? Mabel Winifred Mary Wright ? Nope. Mavis Wheeler ? Nope? Mavis Cole ? Nope. Mavis De Vere Cole ? Nope. Which is odd, considering her son is Tristan de Vere Cole , and her first husband was Horace de Vere Cole , a famous trickster and troll. Lots of contemporary ...

I am considering locking this topic.

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