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- Tue Oct 31, 2023 11:08 pm
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Netball
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2013
Netball
As you all recall, Laura Hale was single-mindedly determined to establish Netball as an Olympic Sport. Of course, it never has been, and a recent decision by the International Olympic Committee, it will not be in 2028. Sports like Lacrosse, Squash and Crickett have made the cut, but alas, Netball is...
- Sat Apr 16, 2022 2:16 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: The mess Laura Hale left behind
- Replies: 98
- Views: 6455
Re: The mess Laura Hale left behind
What can we do to clean up the harm administered to Fram and Laura Hale's many other victims?
- Sat Apr 02, 2022 5:03 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Rolling "Russia fines WMF yet again" Thread
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2422
Re: Russia threatens Wikipedia with 4 million ruble fine
Why are people so upset over this? Mr. Putin is just following the ground-breaking path already set by Laura and Maria to terrorize editors and dictate fake content for the website. How can you compare a minor fib like "Russia is winning the war" to a major lie such as "Netball is an Olympic sport" ...
- Tue Mar 15, 2022 1:35 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Guerilla Skeptics on Wikipedia (GSoW) Arbcom case
- Replies: 77
- Views: 6509
Re: Guerilla Skeptics on Wikipedia (GSoW) Arbcom case
Isn't that equally true of most Edit-a-thons, GLAMs, or Women in Red?ArmasRebane wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 12:41 amI don't think they're secretly in control of anything, but there's a blatantly obvious problem with having an advocacy organization with opaque membership running its own training for the purposes of influencing Wikipedia.
- Mon Mar 14, 2022 10:52 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Happy Tenth Anniversary
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4348
Happy Tenth Anniversary
Welcome Post by Hersch » Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:16 pm I can't believe it has been ten years. When Wikipedia hit the 10 year mark, there was world-wide celebrations of self-congratulations. Although there have been critics of WP for more than ten years, and earlier WP criticism sites, in my opinion, non...
- Mon Mar 14, 2022 5:00 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: First edit to be sold as NFT
- Replies: 57
- Views: 4139
Re: First edit to be sold as NFT
Can we come up with a list of NFTs with more merit: 1) First Wikipediocracy blog post 2) First public disclosure of Jimbo's Russian massage parlor reimbursement by WMF. 3) First posting of Jimbo's underwear up for auction on eBay. 4) First disclosure on Wikipediocracy of the marriage of Maria and La...
- Mon Mar 14, 2022 4:22 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: BrownHairedGirl
- Replies: 711
- Views: 148256
Re: BrownHairedGirl
Thank you for that context. However, there is always the danger that the newbie will take BHG literally, without realizing the attempt at humor.
- Mon Mar 14, 2022 3:41 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: BrownHairedGirl
- Replies: 711
- Views: 148256
Re: BrownHairedGirl
I found this recent exchange on BrownhairedGirl's talk page: Contact with William Bill Collins Good Day. I am in process of trying to scout my father's college track and field teammates. He turns 70 and lives in the Bahamas. I think Mr. Collins may have even stood as best man at my parents wedding. ...
- Sun Apr 18, 2021 11:35 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WMF Endowment
- Replies: 146
- Views: 10919
Re: WMF Endowment
Most people assume that a non-profit's main asset is money/endowment. However, one could argue that it is the donor base and the volunteers. We have seen that Jimbo Wales has been unsuccessful in bringing the volunteers to his subsequent ventures. Lila (and significant other Willm) left under a clou...
- Sun Apr 11, 2021 7:00 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WMF Endowment
- Replies: 146
- Views: 10919
Re: WMF Endowment
To get back to the fundamental point, there is an important community of contributors at English Wikipedia that deserve to function without interference (and some would argue, without day-to-day struggles to keep the servers running.) Unfortunately, the Wikimedia Foundation is now a separate, self-p...
- Sun Oct 18, 2020 11:41 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Pick your poison: Admins or WMF?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 728
Re: Pick your poison: Admins or WMF?
The WMF (Jimbo, Maria and Laura) have won every time! They may abandon individual battles, such as the misinformation war to declare netball to be an Olympic Sport, get their Russian massage parlor expenses reimbursed, etc. But in their global campaign to be paid consultants on the world stage, what...
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 8:21 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Breitbin
- Replies: 290
- Views: 12051
Re: Breitbart coverage of biased Trump coverage
Why discuss these six instances of bias? Isn't the fact that WMF is spending years in court suing the NSA sufficient evidence of its bias? Wikipedia cannot claim to be apolitical when it expands its scope to include NSA lawsuits or SOPA-PIPA site shutdowns.
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 8:15 pm
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Nesta adds Jimmy Wales and Sarah Hunter to its board
- Replies: 5
- Views: 725
Re: Nesta adds Jimmy Wales and Sarah Hunter to its board
I wonder what the NDA says. I am sure that the Board will be exposed to many exciting ideas that Mr. Wales will promise not to compete against. In general, Mr. Wales gets the benefit of annual director fees and Nesta gets to pick his brain. However, I do not see any benefits to Wikia or the WMF from...
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 8:09 pm
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Wikipedia founder headlines UK’s largest event for data
- Replies: 7
- Views: 544
Re: Wikipedia founder headlines UK’s largest event for data
In the United States, there have been two major revenue sources: subscription fees and advertisements. In general, a paper was lucky to have the subscription fee cover the cost of printing and distribution. In many cases, subscriptions were sold as a loss-leader to boost circulation in order to obta...
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 7:54 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Scots version of Wikipedia is written by the same person - an American teenager who can’t speak Scots
- Replies: 186
- Views: 7835
Re: Scots version of Wikipedia is written by the same person - an American teenager who can’t speak Scots
In terms of dialects, please peer review the following WMF funding proposal that we plan to submit under the co-sponsorship of Eagle and Jimbo: A New Wikipedia to reflect the Appalachian English dialect. Sponsors: Eagle and Jimbo Qualifications: both are very expert on WMF politics and policy. User:...
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 7:17 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Scots version of Wikipedia is written by the same person - an American teenager who can’t speak Scots
- Replies: 186
- Views: 7835
Re: Scots version of Wikipedia is written by the same person - an American teenager who can’t speak Scots
Our "knowledge equity" goal will have the WMF throwing as many resources to the Scots Wikipedia as it devotes to the English Wikipedia. If we have to pay big $$$ to some linguistic expert to study Scots and then correct the work of the 12-year-old, that is just as good a use of funds as inviting a S...
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 6:56 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: The latest from the WMF Board
- Replies: 6
- Views: 661
Re: The latest from the WMF Board
Most states have not eliminated the requirement for an annual meeting. Rather, Governors have used their emergency powers to allow the meetings to be held using a virtual format.
Since election of board seats can be held on-line, there is really no valid reason for postponing the election.
Since election of board seats can be held on-line, there is really no valid reason for postponing the election.
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 6:52 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Laura in Wikiland
- Replies: 466
- Views: 24750
Re: Laura in Wikiland
The draft Universal Code of Conduct has been posted for public comment. I dare any fair-minded person to compare the Code to Laura Hale's conduct discussed in this thread. There is much substance that would be prohibited. However, stuff like "respect people's pronouns" etc. would probably be quickly...
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 4:32 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedia edit worth $190k per year
- Replies: 11
- Views: 742
Re: Wikipedia edit worth $190k per year
The next logical step in the Wikipedia editor's argument will be that tenure review should be based upon the faculty member's Wikipedia biography rather than a portfolio of published research papers and expert comments.
- Fri Sep 25, 2020 4:27 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Breitbin
- Replies: 290
- Views: 12051
Breitbart coverage of biased Trump coverage
On Sept. 23, The Devil's Advocate posted a Breitbart article entitled " https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/six-cases-of-wikipedia-editors-smearing-president-trump/,Six Cases of Wikipedia Editors Smearing President Trump ". TDA fails to mention that during this period the Chair of the WMF ...
- Sun Aug 02, 2020 11:32 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WikiEdu.org
- Replies: 115
- Views: 36463
Re: WikiEdu.org
It is hard to argue that "WikiLives Matter" in competition with Black Lives Matter and COVID-19. Most educational institutions are facing uncontrollable COVID-19 costs and reduced revenues. Meanwhile, many parents are seeing their careers and income go down the drain. Of course, philanthropy is bein...
- Tue May 26, 2020 3:08 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Lessons from governance, collaboration, conflict
- Replies: 2
- Views: 355
Re: Lessons from governance, collaboration, conflict
Peter was a major defender/enabler of Laura Hale.
- Mon Feb 17, 2020 12:09 pm
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: WMF External Audit
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2126
Re: WMF External Audit
It is important to note that this report does not include assests held in the "Wikipedia Endowment" at the Tides Foundation. The assets being invested by the WMF are separate from the Tides Foundation's assets held to benefit Wikipedia in the future. Any donation made directly to the Tides Foundatio...
- Thu Feb 06, 2020 11:36 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: The WMF spirals into incomprehensibility
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2518
Re: The WMF spirals into incomprehensibility
Since there is no meaningful opportunity for community input, I strongly suggest that we terminate and postpone any further discussion of the 2030 strategy until noon on December 31, 2029. That will give the WMF 12 hours for discussion and implementation, without torturing us in the meantime. (This ...
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 11:33 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Acitogenesis From Outer Space
- Replies: 3
- Views: 402
Re: Acitogenesis From Outer Space
What are the ethic rules governing the editing from outer space? https://www.nasa.gov/offices/ogc/general_law/outsideactivity.html The approval process is the most important issue for the majority of outside activities. NASA requires advance approval for outside employment involving the following: T...
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 10:50 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Acitogenesis From Outer Space
- Replies: 3
- Views: 402
Acitogenesis From Outer Space
The idea that an encyclopedia that anyone can edit includes the idea that all edits are equal and that we should not give any extra weight to where edits are made. So, when one goes through the edit history or recent changes, one does not see the location of the edits. This is causing https://lists....
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 4:02 am
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Can you imagine a Wikipedia with advertising?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2905
Re: Can you imagine a Wikipedia with advertising?
One would expect the 2030 Strategy to discuss advertising vs. no advertising. But instead it gets itself all tangled up in post-modernism "knowledge equity." "Imagine a world were a bunch of social justice warriors get to wikibattle over which 'truth' is presented to unwitting consumers of verifiabl...
- Wed Jan 01, 2020 8:15 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: New Partial block model policy
- Replies: 74
- Views: 3311
Re: New Partial block model policy
To me, the magic words are "model policy." I raised the need for using model policies rather than a binding uniform policy in terms of the standards of conduct (a topic that is much debated in the 2030 Strategic Review.) Once the idea of "model policy" has been accepted, much of the argument in the ...
- Sat Dec 21, 2019 5:12 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: The WMF spirals into incomprehensibility
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2518
Re: The WMF spirals into incomprehensibility
There are many dumb ideas that have survived the "harmonization sprint." I think the only way to kill them is for every member of Wikipediocracy using the public comment period in January-February to file separate comments in "Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Spanish, and Portuguese." English is not e...
- Sat Dec 21, 2019 2:32 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: The WMF spirals into incomprehensibility
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2518
Re: The WMF spirals into incomprehensibility
I realize that language is a barrier to policy making in an international organization. Successful organization find a way to overcome it. The above proposal does not. First, we hold an "harmonization sprint" in Tunis (of the Global South) where French is a widespread language, but when you read the...
- Sat Dec 21, 2019 2:15 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WP Sado-Masochism Festival — It's 2019 Arbcom Election Time!
- Replies: 735
- Views: 32158
- Sat Dec 21, 2019 2:05 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Offwiki.org down
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3100
Re: Offwiki.org down
I dare anyone to compare the above thoughtful list of "demands" to the 2030 Strategy, which are anti-knowledge, post-modernist demands for the Global South to feed unabated at the WMF trough. The quid pro quo for a stream of donations from the Global north is a (cough, cough) somewhat reliable refer...
- Wed Dec 04, 2019 12:26 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WMF- 2019 Other than Diversity, Revenues and Roles
- Replies: 111
- Views: 7840
Re: WMF- 2019 Other than Diversity, Revenues and Roles
If you have ever attended a track meet, or watched Olympic track and field on TV, you know that there are some people sprinting as fast as they can, in some cases only for 10 seconds, followed by long waits for the next sprint. WMF governance is following the same pattern. Perhaps this forum should ...
- Fri Nov 22, 2019 2:26 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikimania 2020 in Bangkok ... during the Olympics
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1454
Re: Wikimania 2020 in Bangkok ... during the Olympics
In years long past, Mr. Wales earned a reputation (justified or not) of being sexually active at Wikimania. In years long past, Bangkok earned a reputation for wide-spread sexual activity (for hire or not). I do not understand who and how the decision was made to hold Wikimania in Bangkok during the...
- Sun Nov 17, 2019 9:16 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Valerie D’Costa out as Chief of Community Engagement
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1492
Re: Valerie D’Costa out as Chief of Community Engagement
I sense that currently, Community Engagement spends a great deal of time in San Francisco addressing English Wikipedia and other large language encyclopedias. If, heaven forbid, the new 2030 proposals go through, they will find native speakers and base them in cities around the word so that those WM...
- Mon Oct 14, 2019 3:09 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Commons RFA - Fae tries for the seventh time.
- Replies: 50
- Views: 3204
Re: Commons RFA - Fae tries for the seventh time.
When it closed:
Support = 23; Oppose = 29; Neutral = 1 - 44% Result. Unsuccessful.
- Fri Oct 11, 2019 2:58 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Useless Wikipedia trivia
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2087
Re: Useless Wikipedia trivia
Does anyone have a quick way to count the number of biographies of male vs. female porn stars?
- Thu Oct 03, 2019 3:34 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WMF- 2019 Other than Diversity, Revenues and Roles
- Replies: 111
- Views: 7840
Re: WMF- 2019 Other than Diversity, Revenues and Roles
A correction and apology. I have mis-interpreted the meta website which is very confusing. The set of recommendations posted in August just before Wikimania included 12 from the Community Health Working Group, there are now labeled as "Round 1". On September 14, meta reposted the 12 recommendations...
- Thu Oct 03, 2019 3:14 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WMF- 2019 Other than Diversity, Revenues and Roles
- Replies: 111
- Views: 7840
Re: WMF- 2019 Other than Diversity, Revenues and Roles
A reposted recommendation from the Community Health Working Group includes #9, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Sprint/Community_Health/10,which was also posted on September 14: The Community Health working group recommends developing a network of r...
- Thu Oct 03, 2019 2:36 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WMF- 2019 Other than Diversity, Revenues and Roles
- Replies: 111
- Views: 7840
Re: WMF- 2019 Other than Diversity, Revenues and Roles
Wait there is more! The Community Health Working Group has reposted another recommendation (#11) on Sept. 14, the day before the end of the https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Sprint/Community_Health/11,comment period; Ensure that all community members...
- Wed Oct 02, 2019 6:23 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WMF- 2019 Other than Diversity, Revenues and Roles
- Replies: 111
- Views: 7840
Re: WMF- 2019 Other than Diversity, Revenues and Roles
For the very few of you who do not have a watch page list on meta, or are otherwise lacking an eagle eye, you probably missed (as I did) that additional recommendations were added by the Working Groups after Wikimania but before the Harmonization Sprint. Here is one that was added on September 14, t...
- Wed Oct 02, 2019 2:39 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Outcomes of a harmonization sprint - whatever that is
- Replies: 47
- Views: 2212
Re: Outcomes of a harmonization sprint - whatever that is
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2019-October/093604.html,Fae scores again: That's helpful. Volunteers are repeatedly shut down asking questions on this list and on wiki project noticeboards, by being told they should ask questions on these more obscure and hard to find meta talk p...
- Tue Oct 01, 2019 12:00 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Fram blocked by User:WMFOffice for 1 year
- Replies: 3839
- Views: 209867
Re: Fram blocked by User:WMFOffice for 1 year
Signpost or WMDC? Both have their downsides.Vigilant wrote:At this point, the signpost just seems to be the WMDC grievance machine.
It's probably time to disband it.
- Tue Oct 01, 2019 11:39 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Fram blocked by User:WMFOffice for 1 year
- Replies: 3839
- Views: 209867
Re: Fram blocked by User:WMFOffice for 1 year
Maile66 and Fram are starting to relitigate Framgate using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-09-30/From_the_editors,Sept. 30 Signpost talk page as a forum: Indeed, where do we go from here? We need to be better at policing our own, and it will happen (has happened) ...
- Tue Oct 01, 2019 11:11 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: GDPR and the WMF
- Replies: 108
- Views: 3668
Re: GDPR and the WMF
Could you expand on why invoking NOLEGALTHREATS would not be allowed under the GDPR? (I too hope it wouldn't, but I'd want to be able to refute that argument if I came across it.) This is a multistep process. If someone makes an SAR, and it is legitimate (e.g., the requestor is within the scope as ...
- Tue Oct 01, 2019 10:37 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WMF- 2019 Other than Diversity, Revenues and Roles
- Replies: 111
- Views: 7840
Re: WMF- 2019 Other than Diversity, Revenues and Roles
Are we still wondering what happened in Tunis at the Harmonization Sprint?
- Tue Oct 01, 2019 10:29 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Katherine Maher - is she just a smiler?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 2982
Re: Katherine Maher - is she just a smiler?
I have publicly called for Maher’s resignation. Enough is enough. She is not up to the job. Wikipedia is in crisis, has been for years. Giving a rah rah rah presentation and focusing on fundraising isn’t going to impact the very critical problems. The most relevant data is what did she do or say in...
- Tue Oct 01, 2019 10:19 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: GDPR and the WMF
- Replies: 108
- Views: 3668
Re: GDPR and the WMF
I am sure that the knee jerk reaction to GDPR would be to amend NOLEGALTHREATS to say that anyone who makes a GDPR request is blocked while it is pending. Of course this would not be allowed under the GDPR.
Perhaps Mr. Fram or other people on the T&S SanFranBan list should make similar requests.
Perhaps Mr. Fram or other people on the T&S SanFranBan list should make similar requests.
- Tue Oct 01, 2019 10:10 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Laura in Wikiland
- Replies: 466
- Views: 24750
Re: Laura Hale Meet Gilbraltar
Laura Hale then used WMF funds to write up the difference between her DYK hooks and those of Gibraltarpedia. [link]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anatomy_of_English_Wikipedia_Did_You_Know_traffic[/link] Cheeky. I still do not understand how a WMF individual research grant is measured, oth...
- Mon Sep 30, 2019 11:50 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Laura in Wikiland
- Replies: 466
- Views: 24750
Laura Hale Meet Gilbraltar
Laura Hale's Warning box https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Vanished_user_adhmfdfmykrdyrv&oldid=824761727,addressed to Fram said: You have claimed that DYKs I did were related to Gibraltarpedia, when they were clearly not, and you never retracted this. In the middle of the Gibarlta...