TikTok, which is owned by Bytedance, incorporated musical.ly a couple of years ago and is gaining a foothold in the Western part of world. All of that data is now going to China!
https://www.oberlo.com/blog/tiktok-statistics
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- Thu Nov 21, 2019 12:06 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Media manipulation on a Chinese state scale
- Replies: 2
- Views: 685
- Fri Aug 16, 2019 12:57 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: What the hell has happened to this place?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 1813
Re: What the hell has happened to this place?
It's just that people have accepted (or don't care about) the current reality of privacy not existing anymore, and they don't really care about verifying data that is being tossed at them through websites. They can use a smartphone which feeds them with pre-selected news, without even needing to go ...
- Wed May 15, 2019 1:24 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Ashley van Hatin’ at it again
- Replies: 67
- Views: 47359
- Tue Apr 16, 2019 9:40 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: List of mountains on Mars by height
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6466
List of mountains on Mars by height
I've heard that Olympus Mons is the tallest mountain on Mars, however I'm surprised to see a mountain exactly 1337 feet tall. It would be kind of leet, or l33t if you prefer. Does the ESA have any source to back that up?
- Sat Apr 13, 2019 1:36 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Larry Sanger says
- Replies: 91
- Views: 2059
Re: Larry Sanger calls for a decentralized web
I don't think decentralizing the web would be a terrible idea, but what are the requirements for carrying out such a thing?
- Thu Apr 04, 2019 1:27 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Revenge porn laws
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2701
Revenge porn laws
Now that revenge porn laws have been approved in some countries, what's going to happen? All things regarding copyrighted images still aren't very clear. Who owns the copyright on a photograph or video? And if they are published first on a platform such as Wikipedia, which implies publishing under a...
- Tue Mar 26, 2019 8:06 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Article 13: EU copyright bill has been approved
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3189
Article 13: EU copyright bill has been approved
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/26/tech/eu-copyright-article-13/index.html https://www.alphr.com/politics/1009470/article-13-EU-what-is-it-copyright https://www.wired.co.uk/article/eu-article-13-vote-article-17 Rapporteur Axel Voss, a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, said the dir...
- Mon Jan 28, 2019 12:55 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Reminder: Wikipedia contains violent pornography
- Replies: 19
- Views: 9189
Re: Reminder: Wikipedia contains violent pornography
You can take it out of schools if you want, but you're still going to have a problem, because people have all accepted it on their smartphones.All school librarians should know this. Take it out of schools.
- Sun Jan 13, 2019 1:30 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Wikimedia blocked in Venezuela
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5800
Re: Wikimedia blocked in Venezuela.
Quick, prepare Nero (the software, not that old arsonist guy in Rome) and start producing DVD-ROMs of the Spanish language Wikipedia to sell in Venezuela! ¡Vamonos compadres! ... Oh wait, that actually means that no Venezuelan will have access to vandalized pages containing incorrect information. Th...
- Sun Jan 13, 2019 10:39 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Tim Berners-Lee wants to try again
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5010
Re: Tim Berners-Lee wants to try again
In short, he has taken the wheel, and reinvented it... as a wheel. Reinventing the wheel in the field of technology (or telecommunications) appears to be a futile effort, because most of the time the problem is between the chair and the keyboard (or the shoes and the smartphone... :banana: ). You'd...
- Sun Jan 06, 2019 2:12 pm
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: How to "destroy" Wikipedia
- Replies: 60
- Views: 20266
Re: How to "destroy" Wikipedia
Just do what I've been doing for years. Add 'facts' that aren't easily verified. Source them. Cite them. Write fake facts well. Squish them between lots of other facts. Change wording in such a way that it obscures something, becomes unclear. Be patient. Use different IP addresses. Eventually, it e...
- Wed Dec 19, 2018 9:21 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Hi, I'm new here
- Replies: 26
- Views: 7958
Re: Hi, I'm new here
When Wikipedia was started, it was difficult to get free web hosting, the sites were of poor quality, and search engines didn't work very well. Today there are many options, and we do not need Wikipedia at all. Back in 2005 Wikipedia was ranked as the 35th most visited site in the world according t...
- Sat Dec 08, 2018 12:47 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Shock Brigade Harvester Boris
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4000
Re: Shock Brigade Harvester Boris
Reading that you might wonder, "Why do we waste our time on Wikipedia?" Or writing about Wikipedia. There are so many better things to do. In a week or less we could be dead too. The waste of time is clearly justified by the will of people on this forum to inform other people, possibly around other...
- Mon Nov 19, 2018 1:01 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Deep Fake
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4141
Re: Deep Fake
You need to be an FT subscriber to read that link. But I just clicked that link while it was being returned on the page for Google search results, and it didn't ask for any subscription. In any case: https://www.seeker.com/artificial-intelligence/this-new-ai-system-can-create-convincing-deep-fake-v...
- Sun Nov 18, 2018 11:03 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Deep Fake
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4141
Deep Fake
https://www.ft.com/content/8e63b372-8f19-11e8-b639-7680cedcc421 If you didn't think children running wild with various apps and free access to Youtube was a somewhat concerning thing, here's more! About 4 years after the Gamergate controversy, and approximately 2 years after the coinage of the term ...
- Sun Oct 14, 2018 9:42 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Maps
- Replies: 109
- Views: 1949
Re: Crowdsourcing ruins maps
And that is why I use paper maps!
- Sun Oct 07, 2018 2:20 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Juice
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1268
Re: Lil Wayne and Wikipedia create the coolest shirt ever
Not impressed with the design, I am impressed that the WMF somehow managed to get a rap artist to sponsor their gear. The Hydraulic Press Channel on Youtube has put a few Fortnite ads at the start of their videos. What channels do you think would agree with putting Wikipedia ads before their videos?
- Mon Sep 24, 2018 1:24 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Commons deprecates GFDL; will the English WP follow?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3263
Re: Commons deprecates GFDL; will the English WP follow?
Deleting all those images is a lot of work! Will they be using a bot to delete all of them?
- Wed Sep 12, 2018 5:07 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: EU's copyright proposal
- Replies: 44
- Views: 15774
Re: EU's copyright proposal
ISyiTcA6RIw https://www.wired.co.uk/article/eu-article-13-passed-meme-war https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/12/eu-lawmakers-pass-controversial-digital-copyright-law.html It's finally September, and the EU has passed Article 13, its controversial "meme-killing" law, with very few amendments. The main poi...
- Sat Aug 11, 2018 11:59 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: The purpose of the Wikipediocracy forum
- Replies: 14
- Views: 13837
Re: The purpose of the Wikipediocracy forum
People have moved towards video blogging and are now less inclined to read information on sites primarily based on text, therefore most problems related to defamation and slandering happen through videos now!
- Sat Jul 07, 2018 1:33 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Reinhardt Adolfo Fuck
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2080
Re: Reinhardt Adolfo Fuck
See also: Gregor Fučka!
- Sat Jul 07, 2018 1:25 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: EU's copyright proposal
- Replies: 44
- Views: 15774
Re: EU's copyright proposal
The reforms will now be delayed by some time as they are debated by the European Commision, no doubt they will be toned down a tad and then sent back to another vote later this year. Of course! In the meantime, a nice black banner will be put on top of every page to remind people about this whole b...
- Tue Jul 03, 2018 10:11 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: EU's copyright proposal
- Replies: 44
- Views: 15774
Re: EU's copyright proposal
The Italian language Wikipedia is now completely blocked and can't be browsed. In addition, there's a banner at the top of every page asking people to phone the European Parliament; what's more, clicking that button will take you to a page where people are again asked to phone people in the Parliame...
- Sun Jun 10, 2018 2:08 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: EU's copyright proposal
- Replies: 44
- Views: 15774
Re: EU's copyright proposal
But it's not going to work very well because most of the world is beyond the EU's jurisdiction. Are they going to block every website that's outside the EU? And how will that work for photos that are licensed under CC? These can of course be re-used subject to the minimal CC restrictions. And if so...
- Sat Jun 09, 2018 5:27 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: EU's copyright proposal
- Replies: 44
- Views: 15774
EU's copyright proposal
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/eus-copyright-proposal-extremely-bad-news-everyone-even-especially-wikipedia The pending update to the EU Copyright Directive is coming up for a committee vote on June 20 or 21 and a parliamentary vote either in early July or late September. While the directive ...
- Wed Jun 06, 2018 4:05 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Why You Should Fear Google Most of All
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1927
- Wed May 02, 2018 2:38 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Arbitration case on WWII topics
- Replies: 62
- Views: 8016
Re: Arbitration case on WWII topics
Wikipedia's order of biographical importance 1) Sports 2) Entertainment 3) Military (add extra points if participated in genocidal war machine) 4) Businesspeople/doctors/inventors/all the rest But what do average people care about, while doing stuff on the Internet? What do they think of the concep...
- Fri Apr 13, 2018 11:03 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Italian court rules the WMF is a hosting site
- Replies: 7
- Views: 470
Re: Italian court rules the WMF is a hosting site
Obviously, the protection that US law gives to the WMF doesn't apply outside the USA. However, enforcing a foreign judgment against the WMF would be very tricky. The importance of this judgment is thus more symbolic than practical. If the Powers That Be really wanted to prevent any problems with da...
- Fri Apr 06, 2018 4:48 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Google and Wikipedia reclassify Li Shengwu
- Replies: 3
- Views: 337
Re: Google and Wikipedia reclassify Li Shengwu
That "new," more visually appealing encyclopedia from a few years ago mixed Wikipedia text and videos from elsewhere to get similar mismatches. Its name escapes me at the moment. The great Cpedia! https://gigaom.com/2010/04/16/cpedia-founder-errors/ http://wikipediareview.com/lofiversion/index.php?...
- Wed Apr 04, 2018 11:25 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Notability guidelines rewritten
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1288
Re: Notability guidelines rewritten
It's just a terrible idea. I mean, what will be left, the Simpson characters and Pokemon. Could it be more of a nerdy boy equation? Still not convinced to leave the project? Just wait until someone points out old discussions about underage people "love" and various kinds of advocates for niche caus...
- Mon Apr 02, 2018 2:07 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Why I Persist
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1921
Re: Why I Persist
We are going to see more bad data getting inserted into wiki pages, then!The only person who can stop me is me.
- Sun Apr 01, 2018 1:56 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Why I Persist
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1921
Re: Why I Persist
Put Jimbo Wales, Craig Newmark, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos in a room: who would you think is the least ethical?The word "ethical" doesn't belong in the same sentence with him.
- Fri Mar 16, 2018 3:02 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: How the German Wikipedia does things
- Replies: 9
- Views: 531
Re: How the German Wikipedia does things
People always seem so shocked when academics and professionals show so little interest in providing their valuable skills/knowledge for free. Knowledge and experts are scarce materials, it's why they get paid! And you can get any bum to edit Wikipedia for free, because they think their stuff has no...
- Tue Mar 13, 2018 1:50 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Age verification for websites
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1724
Re: Age verification for websites
Of course... assuming Snapchat and Kik are mostly used to send pictures of lakes, rivers, trees, and buildings!Wikimedia Commons: the only porn repository approved by even the most prudish pastor
- Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:02 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Age verification for websites
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1724
Age verification for websites
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/porn-blo ... cation-law
"Will social networks be subject to the same laws?"
Extending this: will Wikipedia be subject to the same laws?
Is COPPA enforced these days, anyway?
"Will social networks be subject to the same laws?"
Extending this: will Wikipedia be subject to the same laws?
Is COPPA enforced these days, anyway?
- Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:21 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: New discussion forum?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 29185
Re: New discussion forum?
Speaking of books related to technology and internet skeptics, I've found one titled "Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway", printed in 1995. I suppose it contains some things which could be similar to Peter's thoughts on his site. https://medium.com/the-mission/in-1995-this...
- Mon Mar 05, 2018 3:05 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Missing Articles — Low-hanging Fruit?
- Replies: 562
- Views: 210140
Re: Missing Articles — Low-hanging Fruit?
There is no article in English about the thing which inspired Nabokov to write his most famous book.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessio ... nyme_russe
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessio ... nyme_russe
- Tue Feb 27, 2018 4:01 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Follow Up
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1061
Re: Follow Up
Do you think Everipedia could be a good alternative for idealists? Wikipedia has become "too big to fail" at this point, but it will not resist the test of obsolescence.
- Sun Feb 25, 2018 10:47 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Paid translation and cultural appropriation
- Replies: 3
- Views: 439
Re: Paid translation and cultural appropriation
The payment could at least happen on someone's resume in order to add useful skills, but that's probably not going to happen.
In any case, pay peantus, get monkeys!
In any case, pay peantus, get monkeys!
- Tue Feb 20, 2018 10:38 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Hasten WHAT Day?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 3289
Re: Hasten WHAT Day?
26th of December, 2026! :banana: Their entire model is unsustainable. It should have transitioned to a 2.0 model years ago. 1.0 would have been the crowd-sourcing phase, in which they try to build as much content as possible, while 2.0 would involve hiring a team of actual professional editors, rese...
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 1:50 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: The Wisdom of Polarized Crowds
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1164
Re: The Wisdom of Polarized Crowds
Polarization leads to high activity and creation of content. Whether that content is going to be useful or not, it's a matter up for debates!
- Sun Feb 04, 2018 12:09 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Creative Vandalism
- Replies: 464
- Views: 141750
Re: Creative Vandalism
I don't know what this means, but it has a certain ring to it. Edits from smartphones are going to bring out some interesting bits of info from Latin America and India for sure! Unintentional vandalism due to poor command of the English language! [spoiler]pame ellnica[/spoiler] I don't know what th...
- Sat Feb 03, 2018 2:33 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Creative Vandalism
- Replies: 464
- Views: 141750
Re: Creative Vandalism
And it's called "the Roman way" there.And sometimes we split the bill in Italy
Idiomatic phrases aren't easily translated!
- Sat Feb 03, 2018 2:17 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Stuck in the middle with you
- Replies: 171
- Views: 4404
Re: Stuck in the middle with you
Links to the past? In my Wikipedia criticism forum? It's more likely than you think!
- Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:38 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: INeverCry WMF Banned
- Replies: 13
- Views: 992
Re: INeverCry WMF Banned
I'm sure the forum could use more than a few serial copyright violators and pro-something or anti-something people!They quite deliberately do not tell anyone what people did to get in that list. We only ever get one sided and thus potentially self-serving accounts.
- Fri Jan 26, 2018 2:36 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Where's Greg?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 726
Re: Where's Greg?
Inclusionist have taken Wikimedia and Wikipedia complete over, kicked and trolled everybody out who did't share there vision, have started to collect knowledge with bot's What would you think about automatically created articles? It would be like the Cpedia idealized by Cuil: take bits and pieces o...
- Thu Jan 25, 2018 4:25 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Fall in number of page views?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 392
Re: Fall in number of page views?
And another good question is: what is attracting their interest now?Good, this means people are starting to lose interest in Wikipedia
- Thu Jan 25, 2018 4:21 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Where's Greg?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 726
Re: Where's Greg?
But what do you mean? Years ago Eric Barbour and other contributors to this forum created graphs showing that the total number of edits on the English Wikipedia started declining after 2007. The projected edits-per-year get reduced progressively, reaching a total of about 0 edits around year 2026. ...
- Thu Jan 25, 2018 12:56 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Where's Greg?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 726
Re: Where's Greg?
The "problem" is that the more he or anyone here analyzes Wikipedia and its inner workings, the less there is to discover about it. So long takes it a wiki to crash, 16-17 years. A pitch drop falls falls sooner. Current calculations place the "crash" around 2026. Wikipedia is now just considered as ...
- Mon Jan 22, 2018 12:02 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Mark Levin: ‘Avoid Wikipedia like the plague’
- Replies: 32
- Views: 462
Re: Mark Levin: ‘Avoid Wikipedia like the plague’
I don't need Wikipedia therefore. He is my man! Because he is complete right, avoid Wikipedia like the plague. You don't need it for sure, but what if newspaper writers get most of their info from Wikipedia and then they shove it into printed newspapers you read while you're waiting for that coffee...