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- Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:17 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Who has what powers?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13812
Re: Who has what powers?
So in a sense, I basically "replaced" Mr. Greybeard in 2016-17, for all intents and purposes — except that he clearly was (and presumably still is) a much better organizer than I am. That particular reshuffle is pretty much the only easily visible piece of WPO history, being pinned to this subforum...
- Fri Aug 16, 2019 5:59 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: What the hell has happened to this place?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 1814
Re: What the hell has happened to this place?
I'm just not seeing Wikipedia a whole lot in the media as being a big "influencer" at least on the same levels as Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites. Even as a general reader, I'm not looking at Wikipedia all that often. Wikipedia criticism is being more a niche as a result. I find it a...
- Sat Aug 26, 2017 10:40 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violation
- Replies: 133
- Views: 21285
Re: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violatio
This bears repeating.The Joy wrote:It's been a strange and bewildering journey...
- Sat Aug 26, 2017 10:06 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 14545
Re: Where do we go from here?
I would nominate Kingsindian for it.Rogol Domedonfors wrote:And on getting the right moderator.
- Fri Aug 25, 2017 6:27 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Where do we go from here?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 14545
Re: Where do we go from here?
When we first started this site, the blog was meant to be the centerpiece and go-to place. I agree with Greg that making the blog great again should be the number one priority. I resigned as the blog administrator due to time commitments, but from the discussions I've had with Zoloft and a SEO exper...
- Thu Aug 24, 2017 5:43 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violation
- Replies: 133
- Views: 21285
Re: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violatio
There's a ton of silly infighting going on between the boards. There are philosophical differences between the boards and differing views on how to run an online community. It reminds me of "The Simpsons" episode where the founders of Springfield and Shelbyville both agreed that they needed to move...
- Thu Aug 24, 2017 5:02 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violation
- Replies: 133
- Views: 21285
Re: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violatio
My last comment on that forum was a joke about stealing Jake's egg salad recipes. Then I look today to see it gone and I think "Gee, I was only joking, Jake!" It was only a matter of time with that forum. The socks were too many and it was difficult to moderate. I'm surprised the very first WR on Pr...
- Sun Aug 06, 2017 4:44 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: A Wikimedia Cloud?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1207
A Wikimedia Cloud?
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/ ... YaeROmQzcs
Since when does the WMF deal with clouds? Are they building one or do they actually have one?
Since when does the WMF deal with clouds? Are they building one or do they actually have one?
- Fri Jul 28, 2017 2:35 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Null edits...why is this even possible?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3924
Re: Null edits...why is this even possible?
The only time I've seen null edits used "constructively" is if one Wikipedian wanted to leave another a message with an edit summary, but not with a post. I remember one administrator accidentally blocked one editor and made a null edit explaining that it was an accident in the edit summary. Sounds ...
- Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:57 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Whoops! There goes the source editor!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3141
Re: Whoops! There goes the source editor!
Scott Adams wrote:Normal people … believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
- Sun Jul 23, 2017 1:38 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Time for a Change
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34356
Re: Time for a Change
An "outsider" in the mod or even administrator ranks would be nice, if possible.Zoloft wrote:Room for more right now. Need another mod or two, for example.
- Sun Jul 23, 2017 1:37 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Time for a Change
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34356
Re: Time for a Change
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-...
- Sat Jul 22, 2017 2:14 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Time for a Change
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34356
Re: Time for a Change
I thought others were considering joining and being part of the leadership team?
- Fri Jul 14, 2017 2:04 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Time for a Change
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34356
Re: Time for a Change
It's Bastille Day. I think it's time to do this. I'll start with the Trustee changes and Mod Team. That will happen in about twelve hours. I am, as I have throughout this process, giving people time to comment as we go along. Let me know when you want to discuss the blog. If no else wants to handle...
- Wed Jun 28, 2017 7:47 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Time for a Change
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34356
Re: Time for a Change
What's the effective difference between a newsletter and a blog? One could simply turn the latter into the former by putting the posts in a certain period together as a digest and emailing them. Once the team is together, I suppose they'll be discussions on that. At least when HK was blog czar, he ...
- Wed Jun 28, 2017 5:35 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Time for a Change
- Replies: 61
- Views: 34356
Re: Time for a Change
If no one's interested in the blog admin/editor position, I'm still interested.
- Fri Mar 03, 2017 3:20 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violation
- Replies: 133
- Views: 21285
Re: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violatio
No, thank you.thekohser wrote:You're always welcome to just stay here and enjoy our very nicely-managed site that is also free to use.The Joy wrote:I screwed it all up royally.
- Fri Mar 03, 2017 2:21 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violation
- Replies: 133
- Views: 21285
Re: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violatio
Well, I screwed it all up. Now it won't go to the domain I want and instead has a domain.olddomain.com. How can I make Bluehost to recognize the domain I want and not use the old Primary domain at all? This makes no sense. Now I have a website at a bizarre domain name. Edit: Tried to redirect the do...
- Fri Mar 03, 2017 1:44 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violation
- Replies: 133
- Views: 21285
Re: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violatio
I tried creating another website with my Bluehost account, but it wants to keep directing to my old website listed as my Primary account. Do I have to have different Bluehost accounts? I want my two sites to be separate. Edit: It seems to be that I have the Starter package and can only have one webs...
- Mon Feb 27, 2017 6:04 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violation
- Replies: 133
- Views: 21285
Re: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violatio
It's been a strange and bewildering journey...
- Thu Feb 23, 2017 5:32 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violation
- Replies: 133
- Views: 21285
Re: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violatio
thekohser wrote:Do you think your team would like my help? I think I could lend a hand as a moderator.The Joy wrote:I've been made a mod and am working to keep the peace there.
- Wed Feb 22, 2017 7:29 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violation
- Replies: 133
- Views: 21285
Re: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violatio
There are ways to do so, but the technical aspects are beyond me.
https://meta.discourse.org/t/archive-an ... orum/13433
https://meta.discourse.org/t/archive-an ... orum/13433
- Wed Feb 22, 2017 6:43 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violation
- Replies: 133
- Views: 21285
Re: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violatio
We are talking about WordPress .org (the software) and not WordPress .com (the blogging platform), right? I have a Bluehost account and I've looked at Dreamhost. Both are WordPress friendly. Any recommendations? Correct, the software. Bluehost is fine, we use it here. They are doing a great job, ha...
- Wed Feb 22, 2017 5:46 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violation
- Replies: 133
- Views: 21285
Re: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violatio
We are talking about WordPress.org (the software) and not WordPress.com (the blogging platform), right?
I have a Bluehost account and I've looked at Dreamhost. Both are WordPress friendly. Any recommendations?
I have a Bluehost account and I've looked at Dreamhost. Both are WordPress friendly. Any recommendations?
- Wed Feb 22, 2017 5:23 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violation
- Replies: 133
- Views: 21285
Re: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violatio
Was that Eric Barbour's site? It was mostly gripey blog entries, no? I think that Eric was a leader/manager of the site, but not its founder. There were blog posts, but I suspect that it was the content of the message board forum that prompted their site's closure. Lots of defamatory speculation an...
- Tue Feb 14, 2017 3:57 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violation
- Replies: 133
- Views: 21285
Re: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violatio
I've asked on the blog. I have no clue what happened. Evidently, if you want to create a Wikipedia criticism forum, you have to own the site, the domain, and the server with the doggone thing being hosted in country apathetic to Wikipedians, lawyers, and the insane (but I repeat myself). I was on t...
- Tue Feb 14, 2017 2:04 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violation
- Replies: 133
- Views: 21285
Re: Forums for Strelnikov's blog taken down for ToS violatio
I've asked on the blog. I have no clue what happened. Evidently, if you want to create a Wikipedia criticism forum, you have to own the site, the domain, and the server with the doggone thing being hosted in country apathetic to Wikipedians, lawyers, and the insane (but I repeat myself). I was on th...
- Wed May 18, 2016 7:16 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: The Visual Editor is a huge failure
- Replies: 1609
- Views: 268736
Re: The Visual Editor is a huge failure
Could it also be they've reached the limits of MediaWiki and need to start all over with brand new software? We've argued before elsewhere that rewriting everything in Python5 would be far better than trying to improve MediaWiki.
- Fri May 13, 2016 6:32 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Meta Topic: Feature requests, bug reports, forum suggestions
- Replies: 114
- Views: 53355
Re: Meta Topic: Feature requests, bug reports, forum suggest
The VisualEditor is a huge failure Flow - the next Visual Editor debacle Bizarre Technical Glitches White Elephants' Graveyard "Extendedconfirmed" and a new level of protection Does editing article trigger patrolling?Does adding a photo? The "Knowledge Engine" project Speech synthesis engine User n...
- Fri May 13, 2016 6:18 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Back to Bruce?
- Replies: 64
- Views: 2538
Re: Back to Bruce?
An old, but great, conversation I wish we could have more in our society. https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2013/06/19/twiiter-sucks-sometimes Most transgender people I've observed try very hard to dress and act in the gender they prefer. I probably wouldn't know their biological sex unless I s...
- Fri May 13, 2016 6:33 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Bizarre Technical Glitches
- Replies: 55
- Views: 14563
Re: Bizarre Technical Glitches
Why on earth am I getting notifications on the English Wikipedia for welcome messages from the Basque and Bavarian Wikipedias that were apparently posted on my respective talkpages years ago? I never went to those Wikipedias at all. Are all the Wikipedias going to be welcoming me and send me notific...
- Tue May 03, 2016 3:46 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Reguyla global lock
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2408
Re: Reguyla global lock
Your best course of action would be using many accounts and insert fake data in random pages on Wikipedia, and then uploading a plethora of copyrighted images to Commons. Be discrete and invisible. It all follows the "anyone can edit" pillar principle! Or I could just do a bulk upload of Flickr por...
- Mon May 02, 2016 2:14 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Reguyla global lock
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2408
Re: Reguyla global lock
There's no such thing as a "permanent ban" as long as Kumioko is alive and able to use TOR and other tricks to stay in the game. It only works if he agrees to it. Wikipedia will never learn. You are precisely right . They can have me using a known account or have me using dozens of others in secret...
- Mon May 02, 2016 1:46 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Reguyla global lock
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2408
Re: Reguyla global lock
There's no such thing as a "permanent ban" as long as Kumioko is alive and able to use TOR and other tricks to stay in the game. It only works if he agrees to it. Wikipedia will never learn. You are precisely right . They can have me using a known account or have me using dozens of others in secret...
- Sat Apr 30, 2016 8:11 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Reguyla global lock
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2408
Re: Reguyla global lock
There's no such thing as a "permanent ban" as long as Kumioko is alive and able to use TOR and other tricks to stay in the game. It only works if he agrees to it. Wikipedia will never learn.
- Tue Apr 12, 2016 2:53 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Why, oh why, won't people submit to RfA?!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 702
Re: Why, oh why, won't people submit to RfA?!
Vigilant wrote:WHY???
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... me_forward
What is shown below is a sanitized version of what you can expect during your time at RfA.
- Sun Apr 10, 2016 2:18 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 823079
Re: Crap articles
Stars and planetary systems in fiction (T-H-L)
A list of, perhaps, interesting trivia, but the list will be never ending!
A list of, perhaps, interesting trivia, but the list will be never ending!
- Mon Apr 04, 2016 9:05 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Jcb to be desyopped on Commons again
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1326
Re: Jcb to be desyopped again
My understanding was that "Keep Local" doesn't matter since the image is already released and can be taken and used by anyone, including Commons, with few restrictions. It's more of a "courtesy" if Commons deigns to honor a "Keep Local" template. The only surefire thing is to pretend it's a "Fair u...
- Mon Apr 04, 2016 8:29 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Jcb to be desyopped on Commons again
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1326
Re: Jcb to be desyopped again
I'm not seeing much of a "lynch mob" going after Jcb, at least not yet. Where is his impending desysop being discussed? Why did they give him the bits back in the first place?
- Mon Apr 04, 2016 8:27 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Jcb to be desyopped on Commons again
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1326
Re: Jcb to be desyopped again
Wisdom sometimes emanates from the mouths of fools... They were stupid enough to trust Wikimedia Commons... Two words for English-WP volunteers: {{keep local}} RfB Yeah I gotta say, there is some logic there. It would eliminate a lot of problems. My understanding was that "Keep Local" doesn't matte...
- Sun Apr 03, 2016 6:31 am
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: The People's Smooth Operator
- Replies: 1130
- Views: 257830
Re: The People's Smooth Operator
I was hoping the plot twist would be that Greg is TPO's Twitter operator.Zoloft wrote:Maybe they ran out of money to pay the Twitter operator.
- Thu Mar 31, 2016 5:33 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Another indefinite oversight block
- Replies: 59
- Views: 3584
Re: Another indefinite oversight block
Editor gets blocked for threatening to out an administrator's whose real identity is known to everyone.
There is no emoticon nor emoji to express the intense burning I feel from this stupidity.
There is no emoticon nor emoji to express the intense burning I feel from this stupidity.
- Wed Mar 23, 2016 6:06 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Daily featured articles
- Replies: 674
- Views: 115275
Re: Daily featured articles
Casliber wrote:Or a sect of ocarina-playing orcs....The Joy wrote:I thought "Orcadian" meant something about orcs from Lord of the Rings or some arcane term for ocarina players when I first saw the word.
- Wed Mar 23, 2016 6:01 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Daily featured articles
- Replies: 674
- Views: 115275
Re: Daily featured articles
I thought "Orcadian" meant something about orcs from Lord of the Rings or some arcane term for ocarina players when I first saw the word.
- Sun Mar 20, 2016 4:45 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia Zero blows up in the WMF's face
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1039
Re: Wikipedia Zero blows up in the WMF's face
Vigilant wrote:Such ingratitude after all the great white father Jimbo has done for those people...Zoloft wrote:So, they are finally reaching that little girl in Africa... and blocked her.
- Sun Mar 20, 2016 4:38 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Down with Ironholds?
- Replies: 783
- Views: 83984
Re: Down with Ironholds?
Why does a charity dedicated to a free, educational encyclopedia hire someone like Oliver "Ironholds" Keyes and tolerate his behavior without sanction? Maybe if we focus on that issue, this thread won't be entirely lamentable? Even discussing why they hired an R programmer of all things instead of a...
- Tue Mar 15, 2016 10:10 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: The Devil's Wiktionary: A Wikipedia Glossary (merged)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 2370
Re: The Devil's Wiktionary
If you love an article, it's a WP:COI. If you hate an article, it's a WP:COI. If you are dispassionate, neutral, and lukewarm towards an article, it isn't WP:COI. CxK_nA2iVXw But why would you edit it if you had no strong feelings one way or another? That means every major Wikipedian is violating WP...
- Mon Mar 14, 2016 9:13 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: BBC News article on Keilana
- Replies: 8
- Views: 782
BBC News article on Keilana
BBC Trending: Female scientist fights harassment with Wikipedia
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-35787730
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-35787730
- Tue Mar 08, 2016 7:29 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Creative Vandalism
- Replies: 464
- Views: 141799
Re: Creative Vandalism
It is a user page and it is rarely kept in check. One could put a userbox saying "This user is the ruler of the universe. Bow down before him/her!" and no one would care much. I follow a few talk pages, so am automatically following the user pages too. If any of those were vandalised, I should cert...
- Sun Mar 06, 2016 7:45 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Creative Vandalism
- Replies: 464
- Views: 141799
Re: Creative Vandalism
Poor Ceoil (T-C-L) was briefly the current U.S. Presidential election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =708545557
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =708545557