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- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:48 am
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Wikipedia co-founder reveals new 'trustworthy' social media platform Trust Cafe
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2496
Re: Wikipedia co-founder reveals new 'trustworthy' social media platform Trust Cafe
Here is a convenient search audit of Trust Cafe's content (by results and branches): "cats of course" - All Results (4995) | Branches (95) "wikipedia" - All Results (305) | Branches (21) "Jimmy Wales" - All Results (178) | Branches (6) "transgender" - All Results (151) | Branches (4) "sports" - All ...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 10:26 pm
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Get your MBA from Professor Jimbo
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3472
Re: Get your MBA from Professor Jimbo
I hope Jimbo will discuss how his wireless company lost 98% of its value under his supervision.
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 10:22 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Who has what powers?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13809
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 9:22 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Who has what powers?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13809
Re: Who has what powers?
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...
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:45 pm
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Admins paid to advise clients
- Replies: 35
- Views: 4923
Re: Admins paid to advise clients
Obviously based on this unprovoked attack, I hope that everything goes very poorly for Jim Heaphy on Wikipedia and on Upwork.
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:27 pm
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Wikipedia co-founder reveals new 'trustworthy' social media platform Trust Cafe
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2496
Re: Wikipedia co-founder reveals new 'trustworthy' social media platform Trust Cafe
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.Hemiauchenia wrote: ↑Sun Sep 17, 2023 5:43 amAny bets on how long it takes after launch to turn into a complete ghost town like WT.social?
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:24 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Elon Musk offers 1 billion USD if Wikipedia changes its name to Dickipedia
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3005
Re: Elon Musk offers 1 billion USD if Wikipedia changes its name to Dickipedia
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 ...
- Fri Aug 11, 2023 8:26 pm
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Jimmy on Lex Fridman's podcast
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1879
Re: Jimmy on Lex Fridman's podcast
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. ...
- Fri Aug 11, 2023 7:42 pm
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Obvious paid editors are obvious
- Replies: 954
- Views: 247633
Re: Obvious paid editors are obvious
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...
- Sun Jun 04, 2023 6:03 pm
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Jimmy interviewed on the Cyberlaw Podcast
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1913
Re: Jimmy interviewed on the Cyberlaw Podcast
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...
- Fri Apr 07, 2023 2:53 am
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Jared Birchall
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2039
Jared Birchall
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...
- Fri Apr 07, 2023 2:41 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: US Supreme Court brushes off Wikimedia Foundation
- Replies: 2
- Views: 419
US Supreme Court brushes off Wikimedia Foundation
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...
- Tue Jan 03, 2023 5:46 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Alleged rape of a 9 year-old girl
- Replies: 54
- Views: 7697
Re: Alleged rape of a 9 year-old girl
Yep, they figured out he's a nut-case after only 60,000 edits and eight years of tolerating his presence.Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑Mon Jan 02, 2023 8:59 pmI have to say, the service on Wikipedia is definitely faster in 2023.
- Tue Nov 01, 2022 9:29 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Neelix banned
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3414
Re: Neelix banned
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%.
- Tue Nov 01, 2022 9:26 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Signpost struggles - sad statistics signal shakeup
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4129
Re: Signpost struggles - sad statistics signal shakeup
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?
It's a fair offer, don't you think?
- Fri Oct 14, 2022 3:37 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1952
Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open
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
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
- Wed Aug 31, 2022 6:49 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Lessig for President!
- Replies: 80
- Views: 12101
Re: Lessig for President!
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...
- Tue Aug 02, 2022 2:04 am
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Wikimedia Enterprise is live
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3616
Re: Wikimedia Enterprise is live
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...
- Mon Aug 01, 2022 10:18 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikimania 2022
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1070
Re: Wikimania 2022
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...
- Thu Jul 28, 2022 9:30 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: The autobiographers
- Replies: 95
- Views: 27463
Re: The autobiographers
The autobiography is: Darrell M. West (T-H-L)
The authors:
DarrellWest (T-C-L)
SusanBluestone (T-C-L)
SupplyRoute (T-C-L)
The authors:
DarrellWest (T-C-L)
SusanBluestone (T-C-L)
SupplyRoute (T-C-L)
- Tue Jul 19, 2022 10:59 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Missing Articles — Low-hanging Fruit?
- Replies: 562
- Views: 210135
Re: Missing Articles — Low-hanging Fruit?
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...
- Tue Jun 07, 2022 4:37 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Always improving
- Replies: 217
- Views: 50072
Re: Always improving
Six-and-a-half years, the "Douglas" reference is still just the "Douglas" reference.
- Sat May 21, 2022 1:22 pm
- Forum: Non-Wikimedia Wiki Sites
- Topic: Encyclosphere
- Replies: 307
- Views: 57344
Re: Encyclosphere $CORES!!!
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...
- Wed Apr 27, 2022 12:40 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedia's Bias by John Stossel
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2730
Re: Wikipedia's Bias by John Stossel
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...
- Wed Apr 06, 2022 8:29 pm
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Obvious paid editors are obvious
- Replies: 954
- Views: 247633
Re: Obvious paid editors are obvious
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.
- Sun Apr 03, 2022 4:15 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Wikipedia wakes up to the fact that Guy Kawasaki is a fraud.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1861
Re: Wikipedia wakes up to the fact that Guy Kawasaki is a fraud.
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
https://www.cameo.com/guykawasaki
- Tue Mar 22, 2022 2:21 am
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Partnered with FreeWill
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1792
Partnered with FreeWill
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.
Wikipedia just sent me an email asking me to add them to my will.
- Thu Mar 17, 2022 3:03 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: First edit to be sold as NFT
- Replies: 57
- Views: 4136
- Thu Mar 17, 2022 2:58 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Happy Tenth Anniversary
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4348
Re: Happy Tenth Anniversary
I would rather be bashed by none other than you, Tim!Randy from Boise wrote: ↑Tue Mar 15, 2022 4:19 amI 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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- Fri Mar 04, 2022 10:23 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Unflattering portraits
- Replies: 229
- Views: 89700
Re: Unflattering portraits
Who knew that entire companies can be photographically besmirched on Wikipedia, too?
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1059371630
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1059371630
- Sat Feb 19, 2022 6:17 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Articles that contradict themselves
- Replies: 93
- Views: 33467
Re: Articles that contradict themselves
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.
- Fri Feb 18, 2022 5:46 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: New CEO for WMF
- Replies: 76
- Views: 7368
Re: New CEO for WMF
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...
- Fri Feb 18, 2022 4:06 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Articles that contradict themselves
- Replies: 93
- Views: 33467
Re: Articles that contradict themselves
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...
- Sat Jan 08, 2022 8:30 pm
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Misguided at Unibuddy
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2586
Misguided at Unibuddy
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.
- Wed Dec 29, 2021 3:00 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: First edit to be sold as NFT
- Replies: 57
- Views: 4136
Re: First edit to be sold as NFT
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.
- Sun Nov 21, 2021 9:32 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Articles that contradict themselves
- Replies: 93
- Views: 33467
Re: Articles that contradict themselves
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?
Eh, what's a few years among educated friends?
- Tue Nov 09, 2021 3:25 am
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Obvious paid editors are obvious
- Replies: 954
- Views: 247633
Re: Obvious paid editors are obvious
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?
Do you think there's some chance that could be an editor paid by Press Ganey Associates?
- Tue Oct 19, 2021 12:43 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Salted caramel
- Replies: 58
- Views: 3392
Salted caramel
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...
- Mon Oct 04, 2021 2:11 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Question submitted to the European Parliament commission
- Replies: 10
- Views: 650
Re: Question submitted to the European Parliament commission
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...
- Sun Oct 03, 2021 5:23 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Ask Wikipedia
- Replies: 3
- Views: 266
Ask Wikipedia
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 ...
- Tue Sep 28, 2021 3:24 am
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Facebook and Twitter ‘should use volunteer moderators’ says Wikipedia founder
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2375
Re: Facebook and Twitter ‘should use volunteer moderators’ says Wikipedia founder
https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycolli ... aa796b1751Someone said something horrific about me...
- Thu Aug 12, 2021 1:04 am
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Obvious paid editors are obvious
- Replies: 954
- Views: 247633
- Sat Aug 07, 2021 2:21 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Knight Foundation to combat disinformation via Berkman Klein Center
- Replies: 1
- Views: 344
Knight Foundation to combat disinformation via Berkman Klein Center
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...
- Fri Jul 30, 2021 2:29 pm
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: How Jimbo saved WP from harassment, abuse and insult
- Replies: 72
- Views: 11267
Re: How Jimbo saved WP from harassment, abuse and insult
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...
- Fri Jul 30, 2021 4:57 am
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: How Jimbo saved WP from harassment, abuse and insult
- Replies: 72
- Views: 11267
Re: How Jimbo saved WP from harassment, abuse and insult
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 ...
- Fri Jul 23, 2021 4:43 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Should Wikipedia pay contributors?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1266
Re: Should Wikipedia pay contributors?
"it may be time to really think about" is corporate code for, "let's not truly do this".
- Fri Jul 23, 2021 4:38 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: How Can Wikipedia Ensure A Safe And Shared Online Space?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 341
How Can Wikipedia Ensure A Safe And Shared Online Space?
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...
- Thu Jul 15, 2021 5:34 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikitribune - the next great Wales failure
- Replies: 747
- Views: 127942
Re: Wikitribune - the next great Wales failure
Quiz Night Beyond LTD is all set to collect those dollars and pounds and Euros!
- Wed Jul 14, 2021 3:35 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikitribune - the next great Wales failure
- Replies: 747
- Views: 127942
Re: Wikitribune - the next great Wales failure
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...
- Mon Jul 12, 2021 2:27 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Maria Sefidari Huici to step down
- Replies: 146
- Views: 9673
Re: Maria Sefidari Huici to step down
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 ...