Yep they could have abrogated it to the noticeboard trolls.Could this have been handled worse?
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- Mon Mar 13, 2017 9:40 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Blog Post - Code of (Mis) conduct
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2489
Re: Blog Post - Code of (Mis) conduct
- Mon Mar 13, 2017 8:23 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: The Daily Mail's scathing reply to Wikipedia
- Replies: 114
- Views: 8466
Re: The Daily Mail's scathing reply to Wikipedia
Looks like FuturePerf just tossed Dr. Blowhard for 2 weeks. Shall we count the time between now and the ANI shitstorm initiated by his cohorts and wiki-buddies in minutes? I was starting to picture a lordly professor thinking he was speaking to vermin. Dr. Blofeld Well he certainly had Blofeld's nu...
- Mon Mar 13, 2017 3:52 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: The Daily Mail's scathing reply to Wikipedia
- Replies: 114
- Views: 8466
Re: The Daily Mail's scathing reply to Wikipedia
What a difference a few years make. I can remember when one of the most salient critiques of Wikipedia was that they used sources like the Daily Mail. The real issue is that they use newspapers of any sort per se. Newspapers are essentially ephemeral and they deal exclusively in the now. Thus anyth...
- Mon Mar 13, 2017 10:36 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: The Daily Mail's scathing reply to Wikipedia
- Replies: 114
- Views: 8466
Re: The Daily Mail's scathing reply to Wikipedia
Just out . ‘Two writers describe their Kafkaesque experiences when they found their entries were littered with mistakes’ Interestingly it mentions Dr Blofeld , who is the author of this edit in April 2015, nearly two years ago. Blofeld is a fucking idiot of epic proportions. I can't think of a sing...
- Sun Mar 12, 2017 4:07 pm
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: A day in the life, Jimmy Wales
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1040
Re: A day in the life, Jimmy Wales
Does it mention his dog Bull's Eye?
- Sun Mar 12, 2017 9:23 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: The Daily Mail's scathing reply to Wikipedia
- Replies: 114
- Views: 8466
Re: The Daily Mail's scathing reply to Wikipedia
I'm constantly struck by the cognitive dissonance – or doublethink – implicit in contributors knowing that Wikipedia is not, and never will be, a reliable source, when you look at the vitriol they pour on other publications that are considered not to be a reliable source. The important thing is tha...
- Sun Mar 05, 2017 8:21 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: The Daily Mail's scathing reply to Wikipedia
- Replies: 114
- Views: 8466
Re: The Daily Mail's scathing reply to Wikipedia
Fixed that for the Daily Fail.Rogol Domedonfors wrote:
Aside:Daily Mail wrote:bigoted oddballs who are over-familiar with the media outlets can wield tremendous power
- Fri Feb 24, 2017 9:02 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Google
- Replies: 129
- Views: 2789
Re: Google and commenting on online news stories
Haven't we already seen that this AI of Google is crap.
- Tue Feb 14, 2017 9:51 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: WMF and Google tally mean language
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1708
Re: WMF and Google tally mean language
Does it say how many were the ANI and Boner4Wales contributors?tarantino wrote:A whopping 9% of attacks in 2015 came from just 34 users who had made 20 or more personal attacks during the year.
- Sun Feb 12, 2017 10:27 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as 'unreliable' source for website
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2348
Re: Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as 'unreliable' source for web
The one that goes by the name Bill Sikes.Rogol Domedonfors wrote:I wonder which Guardian Board member set that up.
- Sun Feb 12, 2017 9:30 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Code of (mis)conduct
- Replies: 17
- Views: 805
Re: Code of (mis)conduct
This is rather dilatory even by the undemanding standards of the WMF. The sorry progress of this project affords some interesting insights into the WMF way of doing things. Oh I don't know ... getting round to sorting out those importuning kids for sex has been on the WMF agenda for over a decade.
- Sun Feb 12, 2017 10:55 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as 'unreliable' source for website
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2348
Re: Wikipedia bans Daily Mail as 'unreliable' source for web
The thing is, if anyone bothers to look into the history of this, they will rapidly discover that there has been an ongoing debate about the suitability of the Daily Mail as a source going back many years. Which makes claims that it is some sort of 'movement' led by a single individual, who seems t...
- Mon Feb 06, 2017 8:25 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Should the WMF play politics?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1240
Re: Should the WMF play politics?
Google gave them money they might as well spend it on Google approved activities.
- Sat Jan 21, 2017 9:27 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Page view -to- Article length ratios
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1699
Re: Page view -to- Article length ratios
One is easily accessible by anyone anywhere with an interest or a question, the other is locked up by a greedhead publisher who will presumably turn over the manuscript to a Trotskyist publisher in Chicago shortly... And one I can go and mess with later tonight. :evilgrin: Personally if I were inte...
- Fri Jan 20, 2017 12:42 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Page view -to- Article length ratios
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1699
Re: Page view -to- Article length ratios
If you want to look up something in Wikipedia, you probably won't know in advance how long it is. At one time, the longest article on the site was a list of hundreds of people who could claim the throne of England if everyone above them died. That article is now vastly shorter. Is it getting more o...
- Thu Jan 19, 2017 3:10 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4421
- Views: 822734
Re: Crap articles
AndyTheGrump wrote:The pupils would of course be removed to a safe distance, to witness this act of kindness).
- Sun Jan 15, 2017 7:49 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: JSTOR on Wikipedia
- Replies: 4
- Views: 879
Re: JSTOR on Wikipedia
One gives access to academic papers, the other chews the papers up until they are a masticated pulp suitable for fungal growth.Rogol Domedonfors wrote:Poetlister wrote:It would be interesting to compare the two for effectiveness and efficiency.
- Wed Dec 21, 2016 9:34 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Creative Vandalism
- Replies: 464
- Views: 141749
Re: Subtle vandalism persists
Not sure whether this is vandalism or wikipedia at its best: A father is a male parent of any type of offspring. It may be the person who shares in the raising of a child or who has provided the biological material, the sperm, which results in the birth of the child.They are also known to set high s...
- Wed Dec 07, 2016 11:51 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's Worst Article Ledes
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2798
Re: Wikipedia's Worst Article Ledes
Hop-o'-My-Thumb (Hop-on-My-Thumb), or Hop o' My Thumb, also known as Little Thumbling, Little Thumb, or Little Poucet (French: Le petit Poucet), is one of the eight fairytales published by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou Contes du temps passé (1697), now world-renowned.[1][2] It is Aarne-Thompson ...
- Mon Dec 05, 2016 8:49 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Is BNP article controlled by far left wing activists?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3296
Re: Is BNP article controlled by far left wing activists?
Eh! WTF. UKIP is a racist far-right party. They have had a bunch of candidates for MPs or local councilors removed for espousing racist and anti-Semetic hate. Not good enough. One doesn't get nominated to represent a party at an election without the leading lights in that party knowing something of ...
- Mon Dec 05, 2016 8:28 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Is BNP article controlled by far left wing activists?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3296
Re: Is BNP article controlled by far left wing activists?
IndeedAndyTheGrump wrote: Thugs in suits are still thugs.
- Mon Dec 05, 2016 2:04 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Is BNP article controlled by far left wing activists?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3296
Re: Is BNP article controlled by far left wing activists?
Why are we pandering to neo-nazi whining? The BNP are wastes of skin wrapped are a core of shit. You're just posting the same smears and slander. Is Trump in your opinion also a "neo-Nazi"? I've witnessed the BNP over several decades along with their predecessors the NF. They are irredeemable, and ...
- Mon Dec 05, 2016 10:57 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Is BNP article controlled by far left wing activists?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3296
Re: Is BNP article controlled by far left wing activists?
Why are we pandering to neo-nazi whining? The BNP are wastes of skin wrapped are a core of shit.
- Thu Nov 17, 2016 10:03 am
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Spring fundraising parties
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1764
Re: Spring fundraising parties
THERE were joyful scenes in the offices of Wikipedia yesterday after the website received its first ever financial donation. ... Of course, we’re not quite out of the woods yet. Paying for our offices, salaries and a server room the size of a small village will soon put a dent in that $10. ... The ...
- Thu Oct 27, 2016 10:59 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Archive.org's (un)reliability
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2142
Re: Archive.org's (un)reliability
Are you still crowdsource fixing their crappy website?thekohser wrote: Yes, and after I notified a couple of people that the link was malformed, the WMF blog editor fixed the link. Still, it was delicious while it lasted.
- Fri Oct 21, 2016 2:04 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedia "encourages terrorism or publicly condones terror"
- Replies: 12
- Views: 823
Re: Wikipedia "encourages terrorism or publicly condones ter
It hosts the videos on YT.Poetlister wrote:It may make them findable, but in what sense is it hosting them?lilburne wrote:Google hosts 1000s of terrorist recruitment videos.
- Thu Oct 20, 2016 10:35 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedia "encourages terrorism or publicly condones terror"
- Replies: 12
- Views: 823
Re: Wikipedia "encourages terrorism or publicly condones ter
The French government appears to have shot itself in the foot overnight after one of the country's internet service providers listed Google, Wikipedia and webhoster OVH.com as terrorist sites and blocked access. As part of the government-mandated attempt at censoring terrorism sites, Orange custome...
- Thu Oct 20, 2016 3:14 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedia "encourages terrorism or publicly condones terror"
- Replies: 12
- Views: 823
Re: Wikipedia "encourages terrorism or publicly condones ter
The French government appears to have shot itself in the foot overnight after one of the country's internet service providers listed Google, Wikipedia and webhoster OVH.com as terrorist sites and blocked access. As part of the government-mandated attempt at censoring terrorism sites, Orange custome...
- Fri Oct 07, 2016 10:50 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Daily featured articles
- Replies: 674
- Views: 115272
Re: Daily featured articles
But, but, but, ..., but, but, but. Articles improve as their size increases just as ask Tim, carrite, and Randy.
- Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:45 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: What does it take to resolve the "in-universe" problem?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 801
Re: What does it take to resolve the "in-universe" problem?
Someone already said that
Wikipedia has more articles on things and places that don't exist than those that do.
- Mon Oct 03, 2016 10:14 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Daily featured articles
- Replies: 674
- Views: 115272
Re: Daily featured articles
Well that's an improvement. Usually they post a picture of some related species, or something stolen from elsewhere.trout wrote: There is no picture of the animal in the article.
- Mon Oct 03, 2016 9:34 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Are people losing interest in Wikipedia?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 987
Re: Are people losing interest in Wikipedia?
OK so this is people searching for 'wikipedia' I'd guess that no one does that as the pages are at the top of the searches anyway. Most residual 'wikipedia' seraches will be '-wikipedia'.
- Tue Sep 27, 2016 6:39 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia:Hasten The Day
- Replies: 78
- Views: 8365
Re: Wikipedia:Hasten The Day
Are there many of the blogs there that have working external links? In my experience most of them are dead.Textnyymi wrote:Is there any general indication that most people are actually reading pages on Wikipedia, beyond going straight to the footers and clicking the outbound links?
- Thu Sep 22, 2016 7:46 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23230
Re: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
From this point on I wouldn't be giving them aid by crowd-sourcing their inadequacies.
- Thu Sep 22, 2016 10:03 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Trump's Ugly Mug
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1206
Re: Trump's Ugly Mug
Why not just put up a photo of a cowpat, or a tub of lard?
- Wed Sep 21, 2016 11:05 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23230
Re: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
Since nobody else will, I hereby use this wonderful, thoughtful tool to retroactively exonerate a person here who shall remain nameless. Faegot aggressive: 0.01 neutral: 0.99 friendly: 0.00 not attack: 0.97 attack: 0.03 I tried that. If you add "memory stick" the aggressiveness and attack ratings i...
- Tue Sep 20, 2016 5:49 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23230
Re: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
I love the idea of seeing all of you dead. Thank you for the opportunity. aggressive: 0.06 neutral: 0.31 friendly: 0.63 not attack: 0.91 attack: 0.09 Now that I know the mindnumbingly simple manner in which this algorithm works, it becomes outrageously easy to construct statements that it will misi...
- Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:27 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23230
Re: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
William Hague was an odious, senile, creep back in 1977 when he was just 16. not attack: 0.93 attack: 0.07 aggressive: 0.55 neutral: 0.44 friendly: 0.01 I wouldn't give the steam off my turds to Google. not attack: 0.83 attack: 0.17 aggressive: 0.26 neutral: 0.72 friendly: 0.02 Both are a bunch of ...
- Mon Sep 19, 2016 10:45 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23230
Re: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
It's a simple ngram analysis, which means it's a very complicated and expensive algorithm to detect the words "fuck", "shit", "suck", and "idiot" (and probably a couple dozen others). Many years ago I was about to get on a coach after a drinking trip to Liverpool. There were cops all about keeping ...
- Mon Sep 19, 2016 10:37 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23230
Re: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
not attack: 0.99One would have expected a better outcome from a multi-billion dollar companies AI research.
attack: 0.01
aggressive: 0.01
neutral: 0.99
friendly: 0.01
- Mon Sep 19, 2016 10:27 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23230
Re: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
not attack: 0.94Did you manage to graduate from school?
attack: 0.06
aggressive: 0.01
neutral: 0.96
friendly: 0.03
not attack: 0.94Please convey my commisserations to your parents, you must have been a great dissapointment to them.
attack: 0.06
aggressive: 0.03
neutral: 0.67
friendly: 0.30
- Mon Sep 19, 2016 10:03 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23230
Re: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
not attack: 0.94Rational people would conclude that the opposite was true. You however ...
attack: 0.06
aggressive: 0.02
neutral: 0.98
friendly: 0.00
- Mon Sep 19, 2016 9:08 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23230
Re: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
not attack: 0.97Only the intellectual capacity of an amoeba would rate this as a passive statement.
- Mon Sep 19, 2016 7:18 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
- Replies: 79
- Views: 23230
Re: Google’s AI-Powered War on Trolls
Apparently the text that I've put there that got some of them in a tizz is neither aggressive nor an attack.tarantino wrote: You can test their algorithms ability to judge attacks or agression here
- Fri Sep 16, 2016 6:20 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Beyond Yacht Rock
- Replies: 11
- Views: 699
Re: Beyond Yacht Rock
But competently enough for wikipedia.Ming wrote:Wikipedia, once again, is apparently the encyclopedia that not everyone can edit competently.
- Tue Sep 13, 2016 2:50 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia:Hasten The Day
- Replies: 78
- Views: 8365
Re: Wikipedia:Hasten The Day
Snuck back the same day.Randy from Boise wrote:Under.Jaguar wrote:I'll give it a month.
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- Mon Sep 12, 2016 8:16 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: The WMF gives volunteers another 100K articles to check
- Replies: 127
- Views: 14892
Re: The WMF gives volunteers another 100K articles to check
Yet another reason why I hope my kid won't go to Penn State. Not fair. The issue here is sub-optimal and when you are comparing the output to normal wikipedia text it may not be entirely clear that 'slightly worse' is actually fucking abysmal. It all depends on what your norm is. BTW the link you g...
- Mon Sep 12, 2016 8:09 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia:Hasten The Day
- Replies: 78
- Views: 8365
Re: Wikipedia:Hasten The Day
They know that edit rates are falling without the "product" actually improving much -- they've reached (or passed) the point of diminishing returns vs. entropy. Honestly, I didn't think it would take this long. I dunno. Bobcad has been a joke for two decades or more, but it still sells to the guy w...
- Thu Sep 08, 2016 11:09 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia:Hasten The Day
- Replies: 78
- Views: 8365
Re: Wikipedia:Hasten The Day
There is no chance that Google will pay for the ownership of Wikipedia and take on the responsibilities of all the dick-pics, anti-Scientology rant articles, and the worthless articles about obscure heavy-metal albums which they can't possibly attach advertising onto. So Wikipedia will remain in it...
- Wed Sep 07, 2016 7:22 pm
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: We're a small non-profit
- Replies: 51
- Views: 9657
Re: We're a small non-profit
It is a form of snivelling that they aren't racking in billions.