Wikipediocracy

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Randy from Boise wrote:Marks are a valuable commodity.

That seems to be the bizniss plan at this point.

Greg: how many outstanding shares are there now? How far are they allowed to dilute them under UK law?

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Maybe the new crew sees it different, but early on we avoided allowing threads like this live on past their use-by date. Wikipedia Review Review pretty much drowned out the rest of the noise at the old place (so maybe we were a little quick to the trigger). Perhaps a non-public/non-googlable navel-g...

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thekohser wrote:I'm guessing that Iannucci would fit right in with Jimbo's young staff of Wikitribune reporters.

Oh FFS.

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Rogol Domedonfors wrote:One giveaway remark from that interview: "a sense that we’re here for the process, rather than the finished product".

That should be added to the scroll for the blog page. Good catch, Mr. Domedonfors.

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I have a plea from a member in my PMs to discuss the changes with them. I think they are worried about the mods and Trustees being able to see emails and IPs. The forum was set up to avoid that. This arrangement was part of our 'Mutual Assured Distrust' system, so absolute power would not be held b...

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For the benefit of people who haven't been following this for way too long: Jimmy Wales made a big stink about Wikipedia not being affiliated with Wikileaks (even though he owned some related domain names) back when Snowden and Wikileaks were viewed as heroes of information wanting to be free, but n...

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Rogol Domedonfors wrote:Returning to something vaguely relevant to Wikipedia, should we assume that the WMF has put the frighteners on Forsyth in order to make sure this sort of thing never happens again?

No, but they might offer him a job.

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Oh shit I forgot about Fae, Kevin Gorman, that guy from commons with the Japanime crap in his signature, and the Gibraltar guy (I'm bad with pseudonames). There's a long line of Jimmy buttlickers, many of them since disgraced. Being dead will slow Kevin G. down... He was a jerk, he loved Jimbo, he ...

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Oh shit I forgot about Fae, Kevin Gorman, that guy from commons with the Japanime crap in his signature, and the Gibraltar guy (I'm bad with pseudonames).

There's a long line of Jimmy buttlickers, many of them since disgraced.

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Wnt is a slobbering Wales fanboy, that's more than enough to indict him. I'd think an interesting blog entry for the front page would be an evaluation of all the Fans of Jimbo, those users who post there day after day, endlessly responding to threads, critics, defending The Crown, and so on. There'...

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More like Elon Bust. Lots of ideas, they all suck ... and so does he. He's done far better for himself than Jimbo has, and probably less damage to others. Sorry. I was unclear. I have immense respect for Elon Musk's accomplishments. I meant that Jimmy's nickname should be 'Elon Bust', since he like...

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I don't think it can be denied that many editors display symptoms similar to those of Asperger's syndrome. Of course, that doesn't prove that they actually have that syndrome, or that even if they do, they are inferior or bad. Are you running for office or something? June 9 isn't so far away. If yo...

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More like Elon Bust. Lots of ideas, they all suck ... and so does he. He's done far better for himself than Jimbo has, and probably less damage to others. Sorry. I was unclear. I have immense respect for Elon Musk's accomplishments. I meant that Jimmy's nickname should be 'Elon Bust', since he like...

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In http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7904&p=190721,another thread it was suggested that it might now be a criminal offence for banned users to attempt to access the site. Is that decision still in force? Not without sending a formal cease-and-desist by some means of communication ...

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In http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7904&p=190721,another thread it was suggested that it might now be a criminal offence for banned users to attempt to access the site. Is that decision still in force? Not without sending a formal cease-and-desist by some means of communication ...

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Returning to the subject of the egregious Bones, I see that they are now https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=779631800&oldid=779616528,self-appointed spokesperson for the entire movement. "they"? For better or worse, there is only one of him. And "now"? He's been d...

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Wasn't he only invited so that he could eat the food? He was just earning his appearance fee. The poor chap has to earn a living somehow. Sure I guess.... http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/mp/m7bbLcNxa6xx.gif Of course they referred to him as the founder too, so one more link to reference for his BLP.

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AndyTheGrump wrote:f you want to gain sympathy, I suggest you stop making comments about people being 'autistic', and having 'mental defects'. It does little to add to your credibility.

Not necessarily, but we're way off topic.

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thekohser wrote:
Rogol Domedonfors wrote:A blog post. That'll show them ...
Hah, that's nothing...

Wait until they send in the really, really heavy artillery!

Really fucking bad idea, Jimmy.

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Was Nigel ever scheduled to appear anywhere other than the London event? The first link shows the SF Spring Fundraiser 2017 page used to say: Join us for a cocktail reception with Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia Founder, Katherine Maher, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director, Sir Nigel Shadbolt, and speci...

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Cards Against Humanity decided this year that digging a hole in the ground would be more productive than donating money to the Wikimedia Foundation. Note: Anyone who thought that the game's founders weren't manipulating Wikipedia for marketing gain can go jump in that hole now. I gave $5 just to se...

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WaPo, NYT, and other "real news" papers have paywalls. Not everyone on Facebook is willing to open an account with every damn major newspaper in the country, so they share what they see from non-paywalled sources.

There. Solved it.

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All that having been said, I don't think Facebook got Trump elected, but Facebook no doubt contributes to the erosion of faith in the veracity and balance of traditional news and information sources, in favor of echo-chamber sources of information that merely reinforce the inherent biases of the in...

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I can't find the thread, but I recall Jimmy laughing off the hack of his twitter(?) account saying the password was easy to break and they couldn't pull that off on his WP account. Hubris strikes again. Here was the hubris post . Firefox just had a serious hissy on me, above link fixed (we don't ha...

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Is it even possible that The People's Floperator is so inept as a wireless phone company, that they don't have a sufficient supply of wireless phone numbers in inventory to hand out to new customers? When I singed up for the first number online, the registration failed. They did not have enough pho...

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I can't find the thread, but I recall Jimmy laughing off the hack of his twitter(?) account saying the password was easy to break and they couldn't pull that off on his WP account. Hubris strikes again.

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Asia is a huge area. It includes everywhere from Kazakhstan, one of Jimbo's favourite countries, to Japan. An Asian month is more ill-defined than a "Europe and Africa month", so I'd say it's rather a gimmick. Israel/Palestine is also part of Asia. The big question is whether the Sinai peninsula is...

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Would it be feasible to automate switching on/off the summer time/daylight saving time option? I suspect not, because the switching dates in Europe differ from those in the USA (and of course it's different again in Australia) so you'd need several different rules depending on which country the use...

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Jim wrote:See also - Timeline of web search engines (T-H-L).

Now that is a hilarious read. One event happens per year, except for a few years that get bunched because Wikia Search is the only news fit to print.

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The very Google-able shitstorms that Lila and those two trustees went through will pretty much discourage anyone with any possible lead for a better offer to say yes to the WMF.

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Moral Hazard wrote:Ayn Rand (T-H-L) initiate Jimmy Wales (T-H-L) / Jimbo Wales (T-C-L) speaks at the Cato Institute (T-H-L), a libertarian think tank.

Jimmy Wales (T-H-L) is to libertarians as Ben Carson (T-H-L) is to republicans.

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I theorize that Wikipedia (and Wikipediocracy, for that matter) are more effectively removing contrarian opinions and people from their forums. Thus each venue is more and more of an echo chamber, and more boring. For example, a few days ago, Smallbones mentioned on JimboTalk some article-authorshi...

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"I argue that Wikipedia's insistence on separating embodied subjectivity from the production of knowledge limits the site's ability to facilitate any substantial, subversive feminist rhetorical action." Translation: "Wikipedia's norm of NPOV heavily impedes activists from skewing content to influen...

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I do hope it gets deleted, don't want to destroy the fantasy with reality. From what I can tell (with the total lack of links to the Reddit threads and all), it looks like he scores about 1.5 on the 10 point scale of reddit pervs and trolls. Daily Beast surely knew that, but they ran with it anyway...

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Is the entire campus composed of beige architecture and hardscape?

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Carcharoth wrote:This is still continuing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =740813826

Any estimates on how much time has been spent on this?

About 95 to 100 times too much would be my guess, but I'm not a horologist.

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LynnWysong wrote:
Vigilant wrote:What a whiny, little man-baby.
More like a bully, who when stood up to skulked off.

I'm pretty sure those are two ways of saying the same thing.

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I caught a few minutes of the show on Sunday morning. Perhaps out of context, but he seemed to be taking full credit for the wiki idea. The idea of listening to the whole thing doesn't appeal to me though.

At least they identified him as "co-founder". Did she ask him about Larry?

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Ordinary people in general web forums seem to be catching on to the TPO Mobile scam... http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2174991 He took £220K salary from the business despite the multi-million loss. Ordinary people seem to be catching on to the Jimmy Wales scam. Right but the first r...

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Board director, Rackspace (T-H-L). Good for her.

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It's a rare diva-quitter who doesn't soon diva-return.

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Poetlister wrote:Here's a good (or awful) example of students trying to take "safe space" too far.

No, that's not an example of safe space at all, Mikey.

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Jimbo Jambo wrote:reasonable Trump supporters

smh

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If they are who they say they are, OurMine is based in Turkey and has something against their erstwhile competitors Hacking Team based out of Milan according to Hacking Team . The original article poked a different rival group. Meanwhile Jimbo apparently doesn't think much of their abilities : My c...

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Bummer Jimmy can't look them up on Wikipedia. The article on OurMine (T-H-L)was created and deleted July 7 last year.

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I think a lot of us would be very interested in how zh.wp is doing, so please fill us in and ask your allies to join us.

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I guess the question is whether this is a friend of Jimbo messing with Greg, or an enemy of Jimbo messing with Jimbo.

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Jimbo Jambo wrote:His mug is the lead image in this article: The National: Wikipedia still No 1 after 15 years

I posted this in [Sexism] because he's not a woman.

Moved to "News and Media". Try not to be an asshat.

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thekohser wrote:
thekohser wrote:Kind of shameful that Jimbo came all the way to Philadelphia but didn't even bother to look me up.
Leave it to Jimbo to screw up bringing his presentation slides to his presentation.

He looks a lot better with the short haircut, at least. Still using that royal we though.

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Now Jimbo is saying that this woman isn't sexy . https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/751702913924247556/4U2Na7gq.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/AditiShankardass.jpg/353px-AditiShankardass.jpg I wonder what Kate thinks of all his doting on young ladies' Wikipedia biog...

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