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GorillaWarfare

Problem with the idea of several wikis linked together in an "encyclosphere" is that there aren't enough qualified volunteers in the world to do one free encyclopedia right, much less several. Larry found someone to put the software together to link the 'pedias together... that's the easy part. The...

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Interesting tweet . If you allow a child to determine whether he or she "transitions" without parental consent, it is a very, very small step to allowing the child to determine whether he or she will have sexual relations with adults. What's the moral difference? Does Larry Sanger believe that chil...

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Ignoring that the interviewer is Tucker Carlson on FOX, I thought Sanger presented the problem well. Sure didn't seem this way to me. In a less than five minute interview he: Answered the first question with "well, it's complicated" and then said something oddly specific about anonymous editing. He...

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Maybe IHA feels sorry now for freaking out and lashing out. Sounds like it was a confusing time for them. Perhaps, though I'm not here trying to get an apology or anything like that. They'd had a really awful time on Wikipedia and then received harassing emails to pile on top of things, so while of...

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GorillaWarfare is just as much a former Arb as Guerillero. At the time she thought the block was hasty and the evidence was weak. I saw that I was mentioned, so I feel like I should clarify that I have not looked at the checkuser evidence. I consider myself WP:INVOLVED with respect to IHateAccounts...

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I know I certainly did. The arm-flailing is part of what makes unicycling look super cool.

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Maybe she doesn't want to acknowledge the stuff she did when she was very young. Just a typo, I think. I checked our correspondence and I did write "I signed up and began editing in July 2006, which would've been when I was 13. I wasn't all that active until around 2010, though...", but in his defe...

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I'm quite unclear as to why they referred to me as the "Wikipedia arbitrator who oversaw the Tenebrae drama". I have no memory of any arbitration involving Tenebrae, and from that wording you'd think I drafted a case on them or something. It doesn't look like there were any cases on them post-2008,...

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When reached for comment, a Wikipedia arbitrator who oversaw the Tenebrae drama pointed the Daily Dot toward Wikipedia’s policy against outing editors, saying it doesn't want to be associated with this report. I'm pretty miffed that they went on to imply that I was a hypocrite for respecting the ou...

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The deadnaming issue on Wikipedia is a major one, and as the article acknowledges we've made some progress but not enough. The name shouldn't have been in Peppermint's bio to begin with, much less allowed to remain, particularly because it was based on shaky sources. Some people at the RfC were argu...

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For at least the third time in this thread, Larry has announced his departure from social media. He's made at least 61 tweets and retweets in the nine hours since.

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From Parsnip (T-H-L):

In Roman times, parsnips were believed to be an aphrodisiac. However, parsnips do not typically feature in modern Italian cooking. Instead, they are fed to pigs, particularly those bred to make Parma ham.

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For those considering buying the book, I have heard: 11 of the 12 essays appear to be previously published works, with the last one being a new work, "The Future of the Free Internet"

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That's awesome of you, Zoloft and RfB. They can certainly use the $ right now. Fingers crossed for your negotiations with Hershey...

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Actually, looking back on how they're doing NOTHING about GorrilaWarfare, just acting about Kudpung, and approving two of these cases and desysopping BOTH times, I retract my comment about the Committee doing a good job. They SHOULD do something about her, and not make her look so innocent. One r, ...

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But, for kind of the wrong reasons: Kudpung has been a patronising arsehole towards everyone for years. - yet gets killed when gender-whiney'ings kick in. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, I suppose, but that doesn't mean it's wrong to grease the squeaky wheel. Besides, like I (we?) keep saying, i...

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Then you will know that the term implies that someone is lying to you, in an attempt to convince you that you're insane? I can't see a case for Kudpung having done that, unpleasant as his behaviour may have been. Not necessarily convince me that I'm insane, but certainly that I'm misremembering or ...

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Eric Corbett wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 26, 2020 7:41 pm
I wonder if GW knows what "gaslighting" actually means?

All too well. Fun fact, I actually did lighting design for a production Gas Light back when I was in high school. It's a good play.

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Fram blocked GorillaWarfare for such violations of WP:NPA --- for this very accusation against Kudpung, I believe --- and she is at it again: With the ArbCom question, how many other queer women on Wikipedia has he called man-haters ? Perhaps there are others, though that would arguably be a more c...

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Seven in the past 15 days (or eight, if you count two who were blocked as socks of each other). In Mr. Corbett's defense, that does seem higher than usual. You would know better than most, though, so... is it? :unsure: I suppose the number might be higher now because it's a new Arbcom, and maybe pe...

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Eric Corbett wrote: ↑
Wed Jan 15, 2020 10:55 pm
Perhaps you need to look a bit harder then. How many non-admins have successfully appealed their blocks to ArbCom?

Seven in the past 15 days (or eight, if you count two who were blocked as socks of each other).

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What team did the technical work in the switch to Groups? I think it was WMF "Office IT". Not sure where that falls in their org structure. While I've been critical of your behavior in the past around your recusal/unrecusal and your behavior towards your friends, ex. Oliver Keyes, I was very impres...

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Vigilant wrote:In a competent org, they'd use a CRM system and it would all be automated.

I've suggested this a number of times, but it hasn't caught on yet. After watching the switch from mailman to Google Groups, I'm not confident such a move is a good idea anymore. It did not go smoothly or quickly.

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There's a similar issue with the mailing lists where entire groups of people see the same email and discuss it, but somebody has to be willing to give up their details in order to respond. Arbcom has sort of solved this with the creation of Arbitration Committee as a non-editing role account strict...

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Wikimedia: James Alexander, You’re out! https://medialternatives.com/2019/01/15/wikimedia-james-alexander-youre-out/ Sorry for the Necropost here but I thought everyone would like to know that James Alexander has struck again. It seems that #Congressedits page one Twitter has been suspended here: h...

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Well according to my spies he got a job working for Twitter and will be in charge of their Live Video/Periscope safety operations section. Periscope's Careers page shows a woman named Hiraa Khan as the current Trust and Safety Manager, so maybe she left (and they're just slow to update these things...

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Before some folks here get their conspiracy theories out, there wasn't a coup or anything. I really wish the WMF would announce these kinds of changes on the mailing lists before removing the userrights, it would save a lot of wild speculation.

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This illustrates a point I was making to a correspondent yesterday that GW is gonna be top vote-getter, in all likelihood — her NO votes are gonna be far fewer than in previous elections. I debated over bringing this up because I don't want to seem to be fishing for compliments, but I figured I mig...

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PS. Checked out React earlier today, but can't see a reason to use it. JavasScript / Jquery is fine for 99% of clients. It works very well for large software projects such as ours. We used to use Backbone, but it was difficult to scale. I don't know a lot about these but React fixes at least some o...

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WhoReallyCares wrote:PS. Checked out React earlier today, but can't see a reason to use it. JavasScript / Jquery is fine for 99% of clients.

It works very well for large software projects such as ours. We used to use Backbone, but it was difficult to scale.

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I have no idea what the Sass community is. You really don't need to know because it isn't a "community" really. Not in the way that FOSS is a community. Suffice to say is that Sass is visual effects software for the internet. Basically, it is a component of web development, and therefore anyone doi...

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Questions for Molly A guy posting as Grillofrances asks: 1. At which age did you become software developer? 2. What are the main technologies you use in your software developer work? I wonder why he considers this relevant. Anyway, I'm going with HTML, SASS [plain CSS is so yesterday], Jquery [cert...

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Oh please, members of WiR constantly attack anyone who doesn't walk on eggshells around them. You're not kidding anyone here, we've all seen it. You yourself are on the list of those attackers, so I really don't expect you to do anything except enable and justify that project. For every good thing ...

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You make a good point about initiatives such as Women in Red as well, but anyone who appears to be critical of that in particular will soon find themselves pigeon holed as a misogynist; if you're anti the project then you're automatically anti-women. Can you explain how you can be anti the WiR proj...

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You make a good point about initiatives such as Women in Red as well, but anyone who appears to be critical of that in particular will soon find themselves pigeon holed as a misogynist; if you're anti the project then you're automatically anti-women. Can you explain how you can be anti the WiR proj...

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Catching up on this thread after spending Thanksgiving with my family away from reliable internet, so apologies for delays. Have you ever seen pictures of them [stewards] as a group? Nearly all of them look like they had roles on the Revenge of the Nerds and most do almost nothing of benefit to the ...

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I remember too you've created featured content [though I'm not sure if you wrote it from scratch or simply added to existing articles]. No featured content, but I've written two GAs. One was from scratch ( Mary Jackson ), the other existed before I started working on it but I completely rewrote it ...

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I remember too you've created featured content [though I'm not sure if you wrote it from scratch or simply added to existing articles]. No featured content, but I've written two GAs. One was from scratch ( Mary Jackson ), the other existed before I started working on it but I completely rewrote it ...

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I figured too that most of the volunteer moderators would be social spastics or under-achieving wannabes. This is quite normal. Most mods sign up on forums because they've got jack shit going for themselves in the real world. But I still thought the Wikipedia moderators would contribute, improve ar...

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Midsize Jake wrote:Okay, now this thread is starting to get a little weird.

Gotta work on your emoji support, my laughing_so_hard_i_cried emoji broke.

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Midsize Jake wrote:
GorillaWarfare wrote:I don't see my feminism as being in conflict with my Wikipedianism.
Exactly.

Can you explain?

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Apart from the different climate, Tim also takes into account voting guides by Wikipedia regulars, which all put GW in a high position. (Shhhhh, I wanna take her for $5...) RfB P.S. Safe Haven Humane Society, Albany, Oregon. It's a deal! Good thing I'm in no position to take in a dog, especially an...

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This illustrates a point I was making to a correspondent yesterday that GW is gonna be top vote-getter, in all likelihood — her NO votes are gonna be far fewer than in previous elections. I debated over bringing this up because I don't want to seem to be fishing for compliments, but I figured I mig...

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This illustrates a point I was making to a correspondent yesterday that GW is gonna be top vote-getter, in all likelihood — her NO votes are gonna be far fewer than in previous elections. I debated over bringing this up because I don't want to seem to be fishing for compliments, but I figured I mig...

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This illustrates a point I was making to a correspondent yesterday that GW is gonna be top vote-getter, in all likelihood — her NO votes are gonna be far fewer than in previous elections. I debated over bringing this up because I don't want to seem to be fishing for compliments, but I figured I mig...

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So my options are to sit down and shut up when people are being sexist on Wikipedia (or elsewhere), or fear two or so people on Wikipediocracy trying to portray me as someone who plays the victim? How ever will I choose. Without going to the extent of totally agreeing with him, I think what he's tr...

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I'm cool with that. And henceforth I won't refer to lying Molly as a liar. Okay, thanks... And just to clarify, I did say "could fairly be accused," which is not quite the same thing as flat-out name-calling. Like I've stated before, Ms. GW is in the leadership, and given that she's in the leadersh...

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:shrug: You can call me dishonest or whatever else you might like; I know I'm an honest person. Just didn't want to get your hopes up about the crying thing—I save that for sappy movies, not people trying to get a rise out of me on the internet. And you know as well as Kumioko does that I don't fak...

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Super sexist, yeah. Super weird? Nah. I'd have to agree, I'm afraid. We shouldn't necessarily infer weirdness from a mere lack of analogy-making creativity. One possibility here might be for me or Mr. Tarantino to edit Mr. Kumioko's posts after-the-fact, so as to introduce a bit more variety into h...

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