Wikipediocracy

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I hope Jimbo will discuss how his wireless company lost 98% of its value under his supervision.

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Zoloft wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:11 pm
By me, I'm gonna let our connection to Twitter die.

The other admins/mods can do differently if they choose, but I'm done with the place.

This is my shared view, as well.

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Did you guys ever find somebody to run the Twitter?- it sure doesn't look like it. I am informed that there was a Twitter account. Or even three of them and they were pretty active for a while until TIppi Hadron and the 'ocracy went their separate ways. The Twitter account is even visible at Wikipe...

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Obviously based on this unprovoked attack, I hope that everything goes very poorly for Jim Heaphy on Wikipedia and on Upwork.

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Hemiauchenia wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 17, 2023 5:43 am
Any bets on how long it takes after launch to turn into a complete ghost town like WT.social?

Funny, I read what you wrote as "how long it takes after lunch to turn into a complete ghost town", but I guess for all intents and purposes, it's really the same thing.

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Wikipedia should do what my uncle did 70-75 years ago. As a young man he grew a moustache and my grandmother was horrified. She offered him £5 - a decent amount of money in those days - to shave it off. So he did. He regrew it again after she had given him the money. Musk is calling for a one-year ...

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Jimmy says: Everyone thinks Wikipedia is left-biased but I don't think so. Let's talk about masks. So much confusion. First they said masks don't work cos they thought if everyone bought it there would be shortages in hospitals. Then they started saying everyone should wear masks, they work great. ...

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Swedes can be paid editors, too -- since 2006! Syntesi authored the Wikipedia article about the Krönleins brewery. From that single-purpose editor, we got this great commercial language into Wikipedia: The Krönleins have a long and strong brewing tradition of six generations of brewers. This traditi...

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I'm sure he bristled at being called "cofounder", but he deftly got through the discussion of the early days of Wikipedia without naming the person who presented Jimmy the idea of making a wiki feeder for Nupedia, or the person who named it "Wikipedia", or the person who issued the first public call...

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Jared Birchall is Elon Musk's "right-hand man" of financial affairs. Birchall oversees all donations that the Musk Foundation makes -- including a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation in 2020 (which seems a little odd, considering Musk's complaints about Wikipedia's left-wing bias). Anyway, how is i...

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Supreme Court Turns Away Challenge to Warrantless Surveillance Program Privacy groups have argued the program exposed by Edward Snowden is unconstitutional By Jan Wolfe and Dustin Volz - Wall Street Journal Updated Feb. 21, 2023 3:03 pm ET WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court declined to hear a constitutio...

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Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑
Mon Jan 02, 2023 8:59 pm
I have to say, the service on Wikipedia is definitely faster in 2023.

Yep, they figured out he's a nut-case after only 60,000 edits and eight years of tolerating his presence.

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Zoloft wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 18, 2022 4:16 am
Co-founder*, as the article says. A small group came over to set things up and then everyone did.

*Not like Larry Sanger. Cripes.

Yeah, on a good day, I would say that I was 25% of the driving creative force in the genesis of this website. On an average day, more like 15%.

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Someone let JPxG know that I will take up the role of co-editor if he can get San Francisco to un-ban me globally.

It's a fair offer, don't you think?

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But who will FACILITATE it all?

It's an opportunity of a lifetime, and who doesn't love a 2-hour Sunday meeting, every other week?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nY9wve ... AW6Kp/view

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Surely a few people here remember a "party" held in San Francisco around the end of 2007 (perhaps it was near New Year's Eve), where Lessig and Jimmy Wales celebrated the conversion of all Wikimedia content from the GNU Free Documentation License to the Creative Commons license? There was a video of...

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Wikimedia Enterprise announces Google and Internet Archive as its first customers By Wikimedia Foundation•21 June 2022 Google is paying who knows how much. Internet Archive gets free access. There's a video of an "Enterprise community" meeting recorded the day after the announcement, that was quiet...

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Wow, look ! There is no in-person opportunity in Kazakhstan, even though Jimbo once said that things were really going great for The Movement there. And, what a surprise -- there are at least 2 times more in-person event locations in West Africa than there are in the entire United States. This WMF M...

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The autobiography is: Darrell M. West (T-H-L)

The authors:
DarrellWest (T-C-L)
SusanBluestone (T-C-L)
SupplyRoute (T-C-L)

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I'm confused how there isn't a Wikipedia biography about Anthony Guglielmi , former spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department, during the Jussie Smollett affair, and now spokesperson for the United States Secret Service, tasked with the job of explaining how phone records just disappeared in la...

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Six-and-a-half years, the "Douglas" reference is still just the "Douglas" reference.

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I guess if you can't get ELON on your side, you settle for ERON (Wolf), the founder of Yahoo! Games. Enunciation skills video How much of the $300K grant do you think will go toward Dr. Sanger's mortgage? Hello encyclopedia lovers, We have great news: last month we deposited a $300,000 grant from FU...

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The part where he smugly types "President Barack Obama built these cages", and thinks that this "proves" there's a problem. Not saying there isn't a problem, but Jesus... we couldn't find something more provocative than "they made my info disappear"? Meanwhile, Jimbo's letter is fun to read . Did he...

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I'm willing to bet every editor who added more than 400 bytes of information to Louisa Warwick (T-H-L) is an obvious paid editor.

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Guy Kawasaki has really launched himself into a new area of success. Just take a listen to some of these personalized Cameos that he's been paid to leave for people he doesn't know, but who he feels should hear his "in a previous life" resume, nonetheless!

https://www.cameo.com/guykawasaki

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Have you remembered the Wikimedia Foundation in your will? Make sure your dying wish is to line the pockets of 300+ grifters in San Francisco!

Wikipedia just sent me an email asking me to add them to my will.

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 08, 2022 4:46 pm
So, it's been a while.

How much of the proceeds from this auction have been donated to charitable causes?

We should check with Orit Kopel. Or better yet, her banker.

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Randy from Boise wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 15, 2022 4:19 am
I was a few days late signing up. Nobody told me that Wikipedia Review was splitting... I blame my friend Kohs, because he is convenient.

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I would rather be bashed by none other than you, Tim!

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Who knew that entire companies can be photographically besmirched on Wikipedia, too?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1059371630

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Got it. So, if I have the significant means to design and produce a complicated widget, I do not have a widget program at all.

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Maryana Iskander 28 Jan 8:51 p.m. New subject: Puzzles & Priorities Follow-Up and News from the Wikimedia Foundation Hi all, Two weeks ago, I shared reflections from my listening tour <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Chief_Executive_Officer/Maryana%E2%80%99s_Listening_Tour> inc...

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Nuclear weapons and Ukraine After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine held about one third of the Soviet nuclear arsenal, the third largest in the world at the time, as well as significant means of its design and production . ... Ukraine would also have struggled with replacing the nuclear...

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Spotlight on... Kimeshan Naidoo

Who inspires you and why?
Jimmy Wales - keeping Wikipedia independent and unbiased for so many years is a great example of sticking to your mission and principles.

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Even though I became aware of it weeks too late, I did thoroughly enjoy this thread. It's smugly satisfying to see there is a whole army (well, maybe just a regiment) of Wikipedians who will hold Jimbo to the fire whenever he's grifting off ThE MoVeMeNt... my legacy lives on.

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Ravensbourne University London (T-H-L) says, "was established in 1959", but the infobox (with citation) says it was 1962.

Eh, what's a few years among educated friends?

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Just going to leave this one here: 72.42.140.240 (T-C-L)

Do you think there's some chance that could be an editor paid by Press Ganey Associates?

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We can all agree that "salted caramel" is one of the world's great food inventions. When did it come about? One of Wikipedia's master platinum editors has decided on the basis of this Daily Mirror article that "The salted caramel was invented in 1977 by the French pastry chef Henri Le Roux in Quiber...

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I also remember the "100 Senators Project," which a few of our members participated in as a kind of experiment to see if there was any real interest within the U.S. Senate in Wikipedia-averse privacy legislation, using each Senator's own BLP article as an example of the sort of things people will u...

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Do you ever contemplate all of the various simple questions that Wikipedia doesn't answer? I do. And I believe if Wikipedia had a more tolerant approach toward corporate/paid editors participating in content, Wikipedia would be able to provide more answers to readers. Here's an example that came up ...

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Someone said something horrific about me...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycolli ... aa796b1751

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I wonder, is DronePals.com on the Wikipedia roster of "reliable sources"?

I'll bet this guy would know.

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Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center Receives $2 Million From Knight Foundation To Combat Disinformation By Emmy M. Cho, Crimson Staff Writer August 6, 2021 The Knight Foundation announced a $2 million grant to Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society in July to promote research on misinfo...

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A graduate of Shenandoah University, O’Dell is the author of four books, with a forthcoming fifth in early 2023. She also is writing an opera about queer identities and representation, which will premier at Tulane University in November 2022. ( link ) Is it common for authors to know about their pu...

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Time for an update for 2015 . Weckerle still says she spends 25 hours per week polishing the CiviliNation turd, but at least she's not taking any financial compensation for it. Donations came to a whopping $4,275. Expenses were just a shade over $4,400. The organization still has about $7,000 left ...

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"it may be time to really think about" is corporate code for, "let's not truly do this".

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Jimmy Wales (and Jake Orlowitz, snubbed from the title): How Can Wikipedia Ensure A Safe And Shared Online Space? Some quotes to whet your appetite: "run almost entirely by volunteers" "I put a photograph of his battered face in the article" "I have Al-Jazeera live-streaming into the bathroom" "Jake...

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Quiz Night Beyond LTD is all set to collect those dollars and pounds and Euros!

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Building on the success of wikitribune, wt.social and werewolf nights, Jimmy now brings us quiznightbeyond.com . Get notified! We will be launching around March 1st, leave your email here and we will contact you when we are ready. March 1st, which year? :dubious: The Quiz website currently says, "W...

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I'm not buying the fulsome praise for Amanda Keton that's suddenly coming on elsewhere. She's a frigging lawyer; the idea that a conflict of interest issue didn't pop into her head either means she's lying or incompetent. The faux openness -- speaking warm and openly, but while not fielding really ...

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