Wikipediocracy

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Newyorkbrad wrote:
Vigilant wrote:Whoopsie!

And an apology

Twice in one day, I am surprised by decency at wikipedia.
My heart may not take it.
For making that allegation, I apologize here as well. I should not have made this error.

Yes. You've completely lost it, Brad. Perhaps you should "deescalate" yourself from Wikipedia.

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sparkzilla wrote:There is a big difference between having some social features, and being a social network.

Do you like fishsticks?

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Wikipedia is not a social network, not even in the widest definition. Apart from the "chattier" stuff featured in the talkpages, of course. And the drama boards. Then there's the barnstars. So to sum up, Wikipedia is a social network, in the widest definition. It does not aim to link people by thei...

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Talking about "so ridiculously self-important"... Tonight newyorbrand posted to his talk "Availability note". When I saw the topic's name I thought he's going to be out for at least a few days, but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Newyorkbrad#Availability_note Availability note Signing off f...

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The following was published today in the leading English-language newspaper of the United Arab Emirates. Wikipedia: a bias against women? The National, 12 April 2014 http://www.thenational.ae/uae/wikipedia-a-bias-against-women [...] ...Prof Hannah Bruckner from New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)...

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There are a lot of US Road articles that are of questionable notability that have received at least GA status if not Class A status from fellow USRoad geeks. If you look at the various insular games played by US Roads, it really has become a "walled garden." More like a circle jerk. Some brave soul...

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Kumioko wrote:...... They are just a couple of bad decisions away from unleashing totally anarchy on Wikipedia.

I think that situation was reached, and breached some time ago. It's really just inertia that's keeping it all going.

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Category:Presbyterian denominations in the United States iS-0Az7dgRY Don't get me started on the Baptists . There are over 100 million of us and therefore over 100 million denominations. Reminds me of my favourite http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/sep/29/comedy.religion,Baptist joke , courtesy ...

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He seems to have a POV. When you write, for example, about Nazism, you need evidence. Then historians are cited who have written about Nazism, but not experienced it. Historians put everything is negative, it must be for God's sake nothing positive in it. For example, that the gross national produc...

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For an important article like that they'll have to pull out all the stops and hire a paid editor, backed up by an army of supportive admins with their fingers on the ban-button. The visitor - the all-important visitor - must be made to feel safe from edits that say things like "Ruthin is shite and g...

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Seems to me that Lily's website is just a 21st Century internet version of the famous 20th Century British TV programme Jim'll Fix It in which Jimmy Saville, a big celeb at the time "fixed it" for kids who wrote in asking for stuff, etc. I don't know how Impossible.com will fare in the future, but I...

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Johnny Au wrote:What is next?

Action figures. Could be a nice, liquid commodity. If managed correctly she could rake some major cash in.

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I'm not really that popular that all ended years ago.... If that were true, Giano, you would have ended years ago. The fact is, as Eric said, you seem to enjoy the protection of a significant number of Wikipedia's more able social networkers. Good for you, I say. It provides those of us who are int...

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Steeletrap wrote:Who or what regulates this thing?

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McAfee built a successful company based on a working product that they (mostly) developed themselves, and that people were willing to actually pay for. ...... And once they paid they were even more willing to uninstall ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg,if they could ) and get an anti-vir...

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The woman featured in those pics could be simply playing a role. Maybe "Natalia Poklonskaya" is a character in some Russian adult children's TV or graphic-novel series and they've got some actress playing "her", in the same way that Angelina Jolie personified Lara Croft...... http://upload.wikimedia...

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...nobody carpets roofs. Nobody ? If that's really a carpet, it's probably meant to be a piece of art. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_raQbMmYACzk/S9CMslautsI/AAAAAAAAAds/-uZWX7feEi0/s1600/11+the+roof+carpet.jpg,Sometimes a carpet is just a carpet . I've just begun to carpet the roof of my country cottag...

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Just wanted to kick off a thread where we can keep info about the Wikimedia Foundation's "Campus Ambassadors" program. For example, this photo helps to show the important and difficult work that Campus Ambassadors are tasked with doing: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Colla...

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Jimbo isn't so much "for sale" as he's more "always on clearance". Rachel Marsden not only didn't have to pay for the edits to her biography that Jimbo orchestrated through Guy Chapman at the OTRS desk, I think that Jimbo actually paid for the hotel room, if I recall correctly the Wales-Marsden cha...

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"La République n'a pas besoin de savants ni de chimistes ; le cours de la justice ne peut être suspendu." (("The Republic needs neither scientists nor chemists; the course of justice cannot be delayed.") This quote (from the Revolutionary committee which ordered the execution of Lavoisier) reminded...

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I have little sympathy for any of those. Some parents spend $30 to gain access to an illegal file download service. Some one lets hos grandkids downloading shit from his computer. And a case of mistaken identity. We see that everyday with companies sending out bills, to the recently dead. It doesn'...

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What would happen if Jimbo Wales and Mark Zuckerberg became buddies? Zuckerberg's Wikipedia page would become even more protected than it is now, and the " Legal controversies " section would shrink (or even disappear) while the " Philanthropy " section would expand. And more importantly, if they d...

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Started up by Bonkers the Clown . No doubt he read about himself in this http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3027 . I was amused by the threat made against Bonkers on his talkpage late last year. The threatener could have added a touch more class, though, if he'd appended "Happy Chr...

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I consider your sign-off to indicate your true feelings towards others, but I have no enemies list of any kind at all, and assure you that you would be far better off dropping your enemies list. No. You would be far better off dropping your enemies list............. Sorry! Just trying to blend in w...

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Not that I really expect the mods or trustees here to make more than a token nod at the concept of treating others as you would have them treat you, but it is getting tiresome to read threads about prominent wikipedians and have to wade through crap like that. You could always try wearing a nice pa...

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I dare people to actually read the 1966 Rampart Journal ( http://mises.org/journals/rampart/rampart_spring1966.pdf ); I can't see a real case for why an "individualist anarchist" magazine ("Libertarian" was not being used at the time) would get into the subject of historical revisionism. Limited mi...

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Jim wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:C ... ewyorkbrad

I wonder where he finds the time to be a lawyer? The guy must live on heavily sugared coffee and cake galore. If he doesn't watch out it'll all start to affect him physically, as well as mentally. And morally, etc.

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EricBarbour wrote:Shit, I was hoping that you were announcing Kurzweil's actual demise. It would serve him right.......

Ah, the milk of human kindness........

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Reportedly, he is, having been named a Super Lawyer in 2013. You mean that he wears a mask, tights, and a cape, zooming in from the atmosphere to represent the poor and downtrodden everywhere? There's quite a resemblance to " http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T9Uu7sA394w/TaVur87QqpI/AAAAAAAAEsI/i4jUzw59YiE...

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Most Internet trolls are chaotic evil, if we were to use the classic D&D alignment system. Discord + schadenfreude = chaotic evil Too right, mate. That internet trolling is surely evil stuff. Wage slavery, human trafficin', oligarchs taking over the world, The Drugs and war can all go take a walk a...

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Nice, Miles. I'm with you 100% on all this Wikipedia palaver. I especially liked the strategic use you've made of the words "fucking" and "thanks" in your endeavours, there and here. Top-notch all round.

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Farting_prohibited.svg/200px-Farting_prohibited.svg.png Some might see that as an affront to the gae community, Peter Damian. Of course, perhaps it's not an arse at all, but some kind of a "no using radioactive nail-polish in these premises"...

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Most Internet trolls are chaotic evil, if we were to use the classic D&D alignment system. Discord + schadenfreude = chaotic evil Too right, mate. That internet trolling is surely evil stuff. Wage slavery, human trafficin', oligarchs taking over the world, The Drugs and war can all go take a walk a...

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What if you remove unreliable material or stop reliable material from being removed and someone else takes offence at you removing what is to them reliable material or stopping what is to them unreliable material from being removed, and vice versa? Sounds to me like you live in an alternate univers...

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but what would be needed in this case is editors who care about removing unreliable material (or stopping reliable material from being removed) What if you remove unreliable material or stop reliable material from being removed and someone else takes offence at you removing what is to them reliable...

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So, Ira is complaining about this forum running links to defamatory diffs. One single diff, actually. So why doesn't he get off his ass and do something about the millions of other defamatory diffs still on Wikipedia? Eh? Because he's never encountered an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irresistible_f...

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I must say that it all sounds like jolly good Wiki fun. A rip-roaring chortle-fest chock-a-bloc with shits 'n' giggles, etc. Would it be the acme of bad taste to enquire whether it would be a good idea to pose as someone with a, say, Polish-Estonian-Russophilic-Balt-Lithuanian POV (with, perhaps, a...

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[Executive summary: Young kid posts on Jimmy Wales' user page, wants to be allowed to join OTRS (Wikipedia's volunteer service handling enquiries from the public). The minimum age is 16, apparently, and the kid is a few years short. The kid also tells Jimbo they used to be a "hat collector", listin...

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Main fronts so to say first and only as far as I really know, i.e to the extent I even bothered to read the EEML messages. Baltic-Russian, Polish-Russian, Polish-German. Ukrainian-Russian. I guess there must have been Romanian vs sth too, most of the time likely Romanian vs Soviet only. Baltic-Russ...

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I'd have to examine the specific article, but my first hunch is always a rabid, single fan who wants only a polished view presented. My next hunch would be a paid PR representative keeping the article clean. A cursory view reveals that a subsection entitled " Operation Ore investigation and police ...

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Farting_prohibited.svg/200px-Farting_prohibited.svg.png Some might see that as an affront to the gae community, Peter Damian. Of course, perhaps it's not an arse at all, but some kind of a "no using radioactive nail-polish in these premises"...

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Look at Nick Clegg , Deputy Prime Minister of the UK. :rotfl: Looks like we'll all be "looking at" Nick Clegg (or whoever replaces him) forever as whatever one of the other two parties who "wins" will need to ally with his Lib-Dems in order to form a government. What a pleasant thought. Still, ther...

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You like to gripe about Wikipedia covering roads...like I've said before, roads are a major part of 21st-century infrastructure, and represent the end result of investments of billions of dollars by society. Roads can affect how cities grow, can displace residents, can be the focal point of public ...

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I've always been surprised/disappointed that Wikipedia doesn't have an article on Kurt Vonnegut's classic short story " http://www.pierretristam.com/Bobst/07/wf041307.htm,The Big Space Fuck ". Philistines. This was a period of great permissiveness in matters of language, so even the President was sa...

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Split Encyclopaedia Dramaetica posts to Off Topic Forum: http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3904 Scary userpage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Thescary1,User:Thescary1 Mostly due to use of the awesome ALLCAPS key. I HAVE BEEN BANNED FROM ...... THREE PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN THE UNITE...

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Wikipedians love it when celebs snuff it, because it gives them the chance to (a) show the world that they're on the ball with current events and (b) show other Wikipedians that they can "write articles" even if it's only changing "has" to "had", etc. By the way, I didn't know he'd died. Always like...

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It's a legitimate example of counterfactual historical interest, so let's give the guy a break. What would happen in that situation is that Jimbo Wales would buy out Mark Zuckerberg's failing website, merge the two projects, then marry Mark in some gaudy Las Vegas ceremony and, together, take over t...

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Did you read all of its text? :blink: :O https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Incomplete_project_of_GIF_TEXT_ANIMATION.gif Yes, I did. Please kill me. I wonder what her first language is. It cannot be English. A cursory peek at his (sorry, her ) talkpage reveals that he (she! she!) can communica...

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https://www.scmp.com/sites/default/files/styles/486w/public/2014/01/15/balloon_south_korea_north_korea_human_rights_jhk01_40317267.jpg?itok=2Xp2rU6W Gladly follow The Jimbo's Thoughts forever! If those balloons were a bit bigger the title of this thread could have been " Jimbo urges Wikipedia to sm...

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It is amazing to me how Daily Dot's comments system has been screwed up for several months, and they just don't care, or aren't able to fix it, or haven't found a workable substitute. No problem for me. http://www.dailydot.com/news/sarah-stierch-wikimedia-wikipedia-paid-editing-scandal/#lf_comment=...

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