It seems to be working now for some weird reason. My laptop didn't run it but my father's desktop did.
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- Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Commons seems to be down [2/28/2024]
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1113
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:38 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Commons seems to be down [2/28/2024]
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1113
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:24 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Commons seems to be down [2/28/2024]
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1113
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:10 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Commons seems to be down [2/28/2024]
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1113
Re: Commmons seems to be down
Wait, are you still having a problem? You're not sharing enough details for a troubleshoot, man(?). What's your platform, what's your browser, is it up to date, are your clock and calendar synced with internet time and date, did you try clearing cache and cookies, did you try incognito mode, did yo...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:53 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Commons seems to be down [2/28/2024]
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1113
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:27 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Commons seems to be down [2/28/2024]
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1113
Commons seems to be down [2/28/2024]
I don't know about anyone else, but whenever I try to access commons, it states there is no secular connection. I can only view images hosted on commons but not access commons itself.
- Sun Sep 04, 2022 2:44 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: How many English-language Wikis are there?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 447
Re: How many English-language Wikis are there?
Yes thanks. Just what I was looking for,Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 3:41 pmIf you just mean WMF projects, here's the list. I assume you can count them yourself.
- Thu Sep 01, 2022 4:29 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: How many English-language Wikis are there?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 447
How many English-language Wikis are there?
Like for example there is English Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Wikiquote etc.
What other Wikis are there in the English language?
What other Wikis are there in the English language?
- Tue Apr 19, 2022 8:04 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Does adding oversized images to Wikis reduce page views?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1632
Re: Does adding oversized images to Wikis reduce page views?
Thanks for the replies.
I better re-size it then and see.
I better re-size it then and see.
- Tue Apr 19, 2022 4:01 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Does adding oversized images to Wikis reduce page views?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1632
Does adding oversized images to Wikis reduce page views?
I was editing another Wiki and added a calligraphy image. The article was getting over a hundred views per day. But right after adding this image, slightly larger by ratio for it's section, the traffic suddenly goes down day by day, dropping to almost a quarter of what it was. Any idea if it's to do...
- Thu Dec 02, 2021 9:48 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Does commons implant algorythems?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1995
Re: Does commons implant algorythems?
Don't be a sucker. That cut goes to paying the salaries of the staff of Ekoru and some of what is left over goes to "cleaning the ocean". If you want to help "clean the ocean" (or any other cause) give money directly to the charity/group/person. Everyone who touches a donation takes a cut of it. Cu...
- Mon Nov 08, 2021 12:22 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Does commons implant algorythems?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1995
Re: Does commons implant algorythems?
Those cuts go to cleaning the ocean, so it's a good cause.Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑Sun Nov 07, 2021 2:17 amAnd Bing/Microsoft serves up its ads and hands over a cut to Ekoru (while it tracks you through its ad network, of course).
- Sat Nov 06, 2021 11:42 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Does commons implant algorythems?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1995
Re: Does commons implant algorythems?
The non-corporate ones like Ekoru
- Sat Nov 06, 2021 4:40 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Does commons implant algorythems?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1995
Re: Does commons implant algorythems?
Lucky me I don;t use any of the corporate search engines
- Wed Sep 22, 2021 8:26 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Does commons implant algorythems?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1995
Does commons implant algorythems?
Recently while editing other Wikis and looking to add images on them I noticed many of my search result consisted of pics related to my previous searches.
Anyone else notice that or know what's up with that?
Anyone else notice that or know what's up with that?
- Thu Aug 26, 2021 1:49 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WMF Board of Trustees: A Fish Rots from the Head Down
- Replies: 481
- Views: 334407
Re: WMF Board of Trustees: A Fish Rots from the Head Down
I got a notification from the bard of trustees that elections are open. Who do I vote for?
Anyone still trust-able according to Wikipediocracy? Or should I boycott?
Anyone still trust-able according to Wikipediocracy? Or should I boycott?
- Tue Jun 15, 2021 6:22 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Can checkuser on the English Wiki detect my account if I log into another without logging into the English Wiki?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1567
Re: Can checkuser on the English Wiki detect my account if I log into another without logging into the English Wiki?
I don't know this works 100% but i logged into another Wiki with an account blocked on English Wikipedia. I then logged out and went to copy some texts from English wiki and my IP got blocked from viewing the source code citing to the account that has been indefinitely been blocked. Since global/si...
- Tue Jun 15, 2021 6:21 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Can checkuser on the English Wiki detect my account if I log into another without logging into the English Wiki?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1567
Re: Can checkuser on the English Wiki detect my account if I log into another without logging into the English Wiki?
Adding to what Boing said, logging in to one language Wikipedia automatically logs you in to all language Wikipedias where you already have a local account . However this does not apply to other non-wikipedia WMF projects like wiktionary, wikisource, wikibooks etc,. So you can login to English Wikt...
- Tue Jun 15, 2021 4:22 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Can checkuser on the English Wiki detect my account if I log into another without logging into the English Wiki?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1567
Can checkuser on the English Wiki detect my account if I log into another without logging into the English Wiki?
I don't know this works 100% but i logged into another Wiki with an account blocked on English Wikipedia. I then logged out and went to copy some texts from English wiki and my IP got blocked from viewing the source code citing to the account that has been indefinitely been blocked.
- Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:16 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: The administrator's pet needs a blogpost
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4949
Re: The administrator's pet needs a blogpost
Where's the image upload option? I got that example everyone wants.
- Sat Mar 20, 2021 6:16 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: The administrator's pet needs a blogpost
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4949
Re: The administrator's pet needs a blogpost
Exactly. I'll try and get a screenshot of the person's post while excluding her name.Poetlister wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 2:34 pmI expect that Ca$hBag envisages a general blog post on editors who get away with things because they have protectors. Still, we need some examples. I'm sure that it wouldn't be hard to find a few.
- Sat Mar 20, 2021 6:11 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: The administrator's pet needs a blogpost
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4949
Re: The administrator's pet needs a blogpost
Umm no I won't give details on the person who posted on that site.AndyTheGrump wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 9:20 amSo, you want someone to write a blog post on something you won't actually give any specific details about?
- Fri Mar 19, 2021 8:32 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: The administrator's pet needs a blogpost
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4949
The administrator's pet needs a blogpost
I don't think I need to explain this concept. It's been experienced by so many people. I just saw another person on another site ranting about this whom I won't disclose for privacy reasons. But this is a typical experience that deserves a blog post. A rogue user with an opinionated agenda with no r...
- Wed Mar 17, 2021 4:56 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2921
Re: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
If you mean the address that my provider assigns me to, you are correct. They have access to the data that connects me from my provider to Wiki,Poetlister wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 2:25 pmNo, the MAC address (T-H-L) is nothing to do with Mackintosh. Checkusers cannot see your MAC address.
- Mon Mar 15, 2021 9:58 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2921
Re: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
Presumably our friendly forum bot is confused about the difference between IP and MAC addresses. I know that CU is aware the brand of device associated with an account and the type of device. But that doesn't really change where it was purchased from. Your IP's location is what shows. It doesn't ma...
- Mon Mar 15, 2021 9:51 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2921
Re: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
I don't think BK was trying to say you were engaging in paid editing. I think the intent was more like " If the OP felt the need to use an alt account to do <THING_THAT_GOT_THEM_BLOCKED>, it is likely that no matter how long they wait, if they use another account to do <THING_THAT_GOT_THEM_BLOCKED>...
- Mon Mar 15, 2021 9:03 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2921
Re: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
Well, guess that you'll have to restart over at Wikipedia (by creating a new account) again to find flaws there (with a new device bought from another place (or maybe even from another country))so that people will not be able to track you (or you can just downright quit there). Also, try not to rep...
- Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:55 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2921
Re: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
Thanks for clearing that up. So your assertion is that despite the WMF saying they don't keep that information, they actually keep that information forever? IPs change. CU knows that and everyone else does. Their locations basically drift like particles on water. But I needed to know that despite t...
- Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:49 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2921
Re: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
I don't think the technical aspect is majorly relevant here. If the OP felt the need to use an alt account to do $THING_THAT_GOT_THEM_BLOCKED, it is likely that no matter how long they wait, if they use another account to do $THING_THAT_GOT_THEM_BLOCKED again, the result will probably be the same. ...
- Mon Mar 15, 2021 6:48 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2921
Re: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
Write briefly, here and in an appeal. If you have made your bed, then you might as well sleep in it. Otherwise, wait a few months, and write that you won't repeat the behavior that led to the block. No doubt other people were wrong too, but that does not matter. Indeed. They swore and cussed at tal...
- Sat Mar 13, 2021 11:03 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2921
Re: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
I would advise either of these two strategies: -Stop sucking at block evasion: being an obvious retunring user with a chip on their shoulder. -Stop trying to evade the block: just go away already If you do it right the effect is essentially the same, so your choice. Just what i'd expect from a defe...
- Sat Mar 13, 2021 10:55 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2921
Re: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
Let's see if Poetlister replies. I think he knows more about IP storage and Wikipedia than I do. However, if nobody is collecting your IP data on their own computer or the wiki checkusers use, then I believe it to be true that the data is purged after 3 months. Don't rely on my idea to your own det...
- Sat Mar 13, 2021 9:46 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2921
Re: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
Three months, but it's not fail-safe because they have a wiki in which they can store IP data for future reference. Can't you change your IP turning your router off and on again? Yes I can. I do that regularly, but according to previous appeal forms, before submitting your request to the unblock ti...
- Sat Mar 13, 2021 1:34 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
- Replies: 37
- Views: 2921
How to appeal an indefinite block without encountering CU- Please advise
So today an account of mine got indefinitely blocked for "edit warring." I'm not going into the details because I don't know who's watching. This account has no previous block history or has never run into incidents of being reported on ANI. It turns out the complainant was buddies with an admin, wh...
- Wed Apr 01, 2020 7:22 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: A YouTube channel is needed
- Replies: 7
- Views: 625
Re: A YouTube channel is needed
We could take the blogs content and paste the text into an automated voice recorder. That would take care of privacy and time constraint issues.
I wouldn't mind helping but i'm currently working on other projects about world issues.
Just my current two cents.
I wouldn't mind helping but i'm currently working on other projects about world issues.
Just my current two cents.
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 8:22 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: A YouTube channel is needed
- Replies: 7
- Views: 625
A YouTube channel is needed
I know i've mentioned this before, but now with the scarcity of criticism left on the Internet, let alone mainstream media, and hardly anything on YouTube, having a blog isn't enough. If we are serious about bringing Wikipedia criticism to people's attention, we need to target websites like YouTube....
- Fri Mar 06, 2020 9:48 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: User:DBigXray ID'd by Hindu Nationalist website
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7520
Wikipedians being exposed on Twitter
Moderator's note: This post and the three subsequent ones were initially posted to a separate thread. https://www.opindia.com/2020/03/delhi-anti-hindu-riots-wikipedia-bias-edits-dbigxray-investigation/amp/?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR26oX5LW3q0T7WVy6yXKtw2-coklcPuKLTyjv_CM4keG9uBfF0jDTq-psQ
- Thu Jul 04, 2019 10:30 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedia Enabling Armenian Genocide Denial
- Replies: 11
- Views: 383
Re: Wikipedia Enabling Armenian Genocide Denial
Weather it's the Jewish holocaust or the Armenian genocide, all arguments should be included. Weather it's David Irving's denial and his reasons for it or anyone else. As long as supporting arguments are placed, we still have WP:NPOV being upheld.
- Thu Jul 04, 2019 10:25 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: The Future of Wikipedia
- Replies: 36
- Views: 954
Re: The Future of Wikipedia
I loved some of the replies here. One theory I have is that a lot of the content will be archived; especially the unbiased content and the rest can also be archived for future editing all on another website or sites, beyond the reach of Wikimedia.
- Tue Apr 16, 2019 10:50 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Top 10 Reasons Why Quora Sucks And Deserves To Die
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6976
- Thu Dec 13, 2018 10:48 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: We need a banner to counter Wikimedia donation drives
- Replies: 4
- Views: 975
Re: We need a banner to counter Wikimedia donation drives
I guess so. Anything that'll send the right message.Dysklyver wrote:
So like an image banner.
Is this supposed to look just like the WMF one?
- Mon Dec 03, 2018 6:38 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: We need a banner to counter Wikimedia donation drives
- Replies: 4
- Views: 975
Re: We need a banner to counter Wikimedia donation drives
Because clickable URLs begin to show preview of the websites commonly on email and social media. The banner should be a screenshot.Poetlister wrote:Why do we need non-clickable URLs?Ca$hBag wrote:The banner should also contain some non--clickable URLs on them
- Sun Dec 02, 2018 8:21 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: We need a banner to counter Wikimedia donation drives
- Replies: 4
- Views: 975
We need a banner to counter Wikimedia donation drives
A couple of days ago a person on my friend list on social media posted the Wikipedia donation banner and encouraged his friends to follow his actions of donating, even though he doesn't work for Wikimedia. He's one of those gullible types who thinks Wikimedia is non-for profit and all the content yo...
- Sun Nov 11, 2018 11:30 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: MIT can't really figure out why en.wp is a cesspool
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1194
Re: Why some Wikipedia disputes go unresolved
The problem here is that a predictive tool would be unbiased and Wikipedia is not about policy, fairness or being unbiased. It's about which side has more influence on a particular POV. It depends on how many admins also agree with that POV and it depends on how many people take the time to partici...
- Sun Sep 30, 2018 6:10 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Amazon donates $1M to Wikipedia
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1107
Re: Amazon donates $1M to Wikipedia
Another reason for me to boycott Amazon. I avoided buying from there because of ethical reasons and now I have another reason.
- Tue Sep 04, 2018 12:36 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Proposal to close the Simple English Wikipedia
- Replies: 48
- Views: 5475
Re: Proposal to close the Simple English Wikipedia
How about closing them all? If Wikipedia was removed, all the various search results would get their due traffic and people could develop their own opinion on things rather than Wikipedia decide for them and passing it off as a matter of fact.
- Fri Aug 31, 2018 9:15 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Tips for evading indefinite blocks
- Replies: 67
- Views: 9620
Re: Tips for evading indefinite blocks
^^ Well that wasn't my case. I had screw ups, but I didn't do anything to deserve a block; especially when people going against me were worse and got a free pass to be worse. So why should I honor such a block? And why should anyone else for that matter? If the rules are made for you, others are no ...
- Fri Aug 31, 2018 3:52 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: This may be the end of the Wikipedia Signpost
- Replies: 182
- Views: 41628
Re: This may be the end of the Wikipedia Signpost
I think it'll end up like Wikipedia Weekly
- Thu Aug 30, 2018 11:30 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Bbbb23 Demand
- Replies: 147
- Views: 28977
Re: Bbbb23 Demand
Most admin work is quite boring. If you get into it for the thrills, you’re going to suck at it. Some people are just better in this role than they are at writing articles. We need both to keep this thing running. Wow.... and yet you spend so many unpaid hours of your life doing this "boring work"....
- Thu Aug 30, 2018 11:19 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Tips for evading indefinite blocks
- Replies: 67
- Views: 9620
Re: Tips for evading indefinite blocks
No he's being literal, a surprising amount of people return with a new account only to immediately enter an edit war and crazy fight with whoever "got them blocked" to begin with. Not everyone that might want to evading indefinite block is actually a productive editor. For the most part being innoc...