Wikipediocracy

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The mischievous little Bonkers is back. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&action=view&type=block&page=User:Bonkers_The_Clown,Unblocked Per WP:STANDARDOFFER and WP:ROPE ... I wonder what it says about Wikipedia that administrative actions are undertaken with reference to phrases...

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Just another thing that 'power users' turn off in preferences. (At least they finally gave that option from the start!) The use case on Commons and WP is different but it's not reflected in the software. On Wikipedia you click on an image and can then scroll through any other images in the article w...

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There were six signatures on the petition before the JimboTalk publicity. FTR. (New bookkeeper here.) Bets on how many signatures there are at Wed Jun 04, 2014 3:00 am server time / 11 pm east coast US? (New bookrunner here.) Winner gets a SFW 'Valued Image' from Commons in their mailbox. Edit: but ...

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Hey Wil, So far you have more talk page watchers on the English Wikipedia than Lila. (That means the number of people who have clicked on the 'watch' button at the top of every page, so that new edits to your talk page show on their personal watch lists.) Right now it's 34 versus ' fewer than 30 ' (...

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Neil Postman: Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their ca...

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Today I was trying to upload an image on Wikimedia Commons that's a derivative work from an existing image there, only to discover that it's no longer possible to do this the standard way. On the Commons upload page , the third listed choice is "It is a derivative work of one or several files from ...

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Traditionally, anonymity in written materials has been associated with such things as ransom notes, poison pen letters, graffiti, and the anonymity was quite straightforwardly a way of avoiding responsibility for what's been written. ( Robert McHenry ) I once came across a chapter on anonymous lett...

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Arbitrator & gunslinger AGK is preparing letters to Dylan Breves' ISP and employer. Fair warning. Prolly shoulda stayed anonymous dude!

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Slowish start. Programming talk about charts and data. Ms. Tretikov comments the WMF needs to think on two levels: transactional and operational. I don't know how much you're paraphrasing, but that's an odd comment for the Big Boss to make -- '[we need] to think on two levels: transactional and ope...

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Randy from Boise wrote:then and only then will I believe they are serious on whacking off this bureaucratic cash-leech.

All things considered, please rephrase.

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I meant to warn Kumioko of the potential consequences of vexing those who have a tendency to get fixated on things. That's a great line for my next mafia movie script. Except some Tony Soprano like guy will be saying it to some petty mediation committee he's been forced to attend, "I just meant to ...

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Quite the police state they have.

"Editor retention"? Right.

Admins need to EXPLAIN their actions.

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Google has NPOV problems for Mr. Paul de Man: http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/4808/4ux9.jpg Edited to add, there's a good Google Bomb here. Make the image larger than any of the others available, in a nice and clean close-profile format (as those image qualities may be heuristically sensed by Goo...

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http://bhoffert.faculty.noctrl.edu/TEACHING/Mao.Cult.2.jpg Working Together! Distributed Innovation and Creativity Peer Production and Commons in a Networked Economy! I feel semiotic balance is needed. https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRq8SjDnhsLfbpXIVM1NPDrzilH96Z0uWZ2XwQRSERx5...

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To continue with the status quo, where you make yourself 'responsible' for this set of recent changes [500 edits to monitor per 13 hours, 0.6 edits per minute] Clipperton's post above is simply outstanding. I award it the "Post of the Day" prize. Thank you! During evening North American hours, the ...

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Hex wrote:Eating your own dog food (T-H-L)... you're doing it wrong.

Oh look, that article even mentions the WMF.

I think the metaphor they use in software development for the above is 'Pathologically licking your own anal glands (T-H-L)'. (not actual article! Perhaps check the commons category though.)

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Can Wikipedia Ever Be a Definitive Medical Text? No. The most ethical thing that WP:MED editors can do is to let Wikipedia content on important subjects like health go to the dogs -- and then make it very clear as a P.R. matter that such has happened, 'we're no longer monitoring it' (which gets pic...

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A "last edited x hours/minutes ago" bar and a bit of editing history is actually useful. It helps the reader realise whether there is an edit war going on, or the article has just been vandalised. I could see that. My comments were based on the image and text presented above (as if all that informa...

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Need more stories like this, of students trying to edit WP and being forced out by nuts. It happens more often than many here realize. True, but acceptable content on wikipedia is so vastly misunderstood by so many of the teachers doing these assignments that there is blame in all directions. 'Summ...

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Wikipedia tweaks mobile design to put emphasis on contributors The Next Web, 3 May 2014 http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/05/03/wikipedia-tweaks-mobile-design-put-emphasis-editors/ Interesting Mancunium. WMF makes so many awful design decisions based on their desperation to re-popularize Wikipedia...

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Yep my list wasn't intended to be exhaustive I know. Team work and all. I was posting with someone who doesn't know wikipedia in mind, if they read... all of these roles and what they entail, together, dispell the notion that wikipedia is some rational paradise where you can 'ignore rules if you ca...

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Zoloft wrote:"Necklace" does as well. The thing is riddled with innapropriate 'results.'

Eek. OK!

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Posting for the record, to the most topical thread I could find based on the now infamous 'toothbrush' keyword: Searching for 'pants' gives at least 2 or 3 adult images on the first page of results. As you were. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Dog_and_pants_%288189073708%29...

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Have WO members considered setting up a torrent to 'keep alive' documents and other files of interest?

It would probably have some awkward IP address issues.

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And let's not forget the 'outside world' statuses: * User (WMF) - official at-work account of someone employed/'contracted' by Wikimedia Foundation * User (WEF/Wiki Ed) - official at-'work' account of someone employed/'contracted' by Wiki Education Foundation, now a separate charity * Wikipedian in ...

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I hate to sound like a cynical old cow, Better to be an old cow than be at a dead horse. :deadhorse: - G.K. Chesterton (smiley not included) I view this smiley empathetically (re topic). The concerned yellow guy is beating away tsetse flies from his beloved, sleeping horse. (However, everything is ...

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One could interpret the blog post as a giant Fuck-You to the contributors to WMF, who fund all that travel, and probably also those gizmos. No traditional 'charity' exec would post rubbish like this to a blog if only out of conscience.

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EricBarbour wrote:What, is she trying for a job at Consumer Reports now?

Would have to complete with the Consumer Reports Wiki-Resident, who I'm almost sure makes a bit less. Bluerasberry#Summary of what I do with Wikipedia (T-C-L)

Awaiting the ( Linked-In | Taco Bell | ShamWow ) Wikipedian-in-Residence.

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If I were a Google competitor, I'd see this decline as an opportunity. Critics should see it as an opportunity too. Inevitably 'wikipedia editor decline' starts to get more headlines. Spread fear and propaganda: what happens to the quality of content once there are fewer patrollers? You can't trust...

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My submission: * An outline of day-to-day technology requirements for the charity. What they are now. * An outline of technology project work/programme the charity is conducting. You already know this, boss. * An outline of technology project work/programme the charity would like to conduct. I'm no...

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Is this where 1. WMUK gets an 'independent' party to tell them how many millions of dollars they'll need to shell out to existing and newly hired friends so that they can do the important work of {I draw a blank}. 2. they submit the report (with others, after all this is just about 'technology', wha...

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The Wikimedia Foundation has not banned Kumioko. Nobody in a contractual relationship with the WMF has banned Kumioko. The only party with any potential interest in a civil remedy has not said a goddam word to Kumioko about his use of their internet site (hereafter "Wikipedia"), nor required Kumioko...

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Anyone care to guess at what the WMF has spent on parsoid/VE so far? Amortizing that over the number of edits made with this complete cowpat of a tool probably yields about $1 spent by the WMF/edit made with VisualEditor. Money well spent, I think. Hello, I'd like to announce our hiring of Matt R. ...

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The bigger issue, IMHO, is that Wales is not giving money back to the contributors of Wikia. I really think it is time for people who are contributing for projects for free to wake up and realize that people like Wales and Zuckerberg are laughing all the way to the bank. I couldn't agree more. Yet ...

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File under 'no shit but may be good for a few clickthroughs on a cheap web property.'

I have a new idea--I should submit this article somewhere: 'Related Google searches increase when notable events happen'.

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What does the photo of Mr. Kohs have to do with the article? Is he that good a 'lede' (don't answer nor re-interpret humourously, please :XD ) , or is this article put together by your standard 'clip and paste' internet 'writer'? (I was REAL confused until I turned on Javascript, which prevented the...

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Bielle wrote:Not to be unkind to anyone, but how is this condition different from the more commonly called "slow learner" or even, in my grandmother's phraseology "Born behind and never will catch up"?

It is different because you can monetize it.

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Yet another minor rollout disaster for the WMF devs/'designers'/et al, only worth bringing up as a case study into their continuing failure to understand the customer. Executive background: some basic font faces/sizes/etc were changed across all projects as part of the important-sounding 'Typography...

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Speaking of B Josephson and Water memory (T-H-L),

Maddox was unapologetic, stating "I'm sorry we didn't find something more interesting."

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And articles may be crap because: The reason why I am mentioning COI is because you seem to know a lot about the sources needed for the article, and about the topic for said article. Please exercise caution when you are working on articles on topics that you are familiar with. Wikipedia, these are y...

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"Happy-melon" posted a redacted screencap of the interface of the election tool they've been handing out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Securepoll_details_view.png. You can see it has the IP, XFF, User Agent, CSRF field... What is CSRF? (...something about cross site scripting... whi...

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A tidbit I wanted to add to this thread, before I joined (nice work Mancunium, BTW): PediaPress.com is the site that prints customized books full of Wikipedia articles. Its home page is promoting a "featured book" called Pharmacology for Anesthetists 2 . (Even worse, there are 5 volumes.) Unusually,...

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Seems that there hasn't been much on the Education Program (avoiding scare quotes temptation) in the forums here. As one of the pillars of the institutional hollowing-out programme that is being used to avoid the issue of WP's organic decline, the "EP" deserves more airwaves. Recently the Wikipedia:...

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