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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 10:45 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Was Maher fired?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 4053
Re: Was Maher fired?
Rufo is a fever swamp-radiated dolt.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:24 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Was Maher fired?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 4053
Re: Was Maher fired?
I probably listen to an hour of NPR a day. It's the same middle-of-the-road, soft, bending over backwards to see "all sides" warm milk it has always been (for instance: Their constant consideration of whether the woke panic people "have a point."). The NPR CEO has minimal input on editorial decision...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:41 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617405
Re: Wikipedia's worst sentences
Was doing some googling on Robert Fisk (T-H-L).
Not exactly a "worst" sentence, but this from the lede is AMAZING.
Not exactly a "worst" sentence, but this from the lede is AMAZING.
The term fisking (meaning a line-by-line rebuttal) was coined to describe his method
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 10:09 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Haaretz: Israeli PM Netanyahu's Son Asks to Be Removed From Wikipedia in Rare Request
- Replies: 6
- Views: 177
Re: Haaretz: Israeli PM Netanyahu's Son Asks to Be Removed From Wikipedia in Rare Request
I was initially confused as I thought this was about Netanyahu's other son Yair Netanyahu , who is definitely a public figure and has enough long-term coverage to pass WP:GNG. Never heard of Avener either. Yair is a nasty, nasty piece of work and in a case of extreme horseshoe theory often uses ant...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 31010
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
What Travis Lee Bailey has become is very sad. In completely unrelated news, Travis Lee Bailey looks and sounds pretty rough these days. kbBQn249tiY https://youtu.be/kbBQn249tiY A wannabe spy got a job at Utah government agency to find and send documents to Russia See his reddit account for more sa...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:25 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Today's featured article...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 329
Today's featured article...
Is as trite and trivial as we've come to expect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_of_the_Boys_(1989_TV_series),One of the Boys is an American sitcom created by Blake Hunter and Martin Cohan that aired six episodes on NBC from April 15 to May 20, 1989. It is one of only a few American primetime prog...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:26 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Let's talk about LDS editors
- Replies: 257
- Views: 12613
Re: Let's talk about LDS editors
I'm having a fun little moment thinking of a Mormon elders meeting and a confusing discussion of "meatpuppets."
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:19 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Persian Wikipedia
- Replies: 61
- Views: 1902
Re: Persian Wikipedia
Bumping. As pointed out elsewhere Mohsen Salek was banned by the WMF yesterday.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Former steward Mardetanha (of Farsi Wikipedia) globally banned by WMF
- Replies: 4
- Views: 205
Re: Former steward Mardetanha (of Farsi Wikipedia) globally banned by WMF
Salek probably deserves his own thread in a public area. This from 2019 is useful. viewtopic.php?f=6&t=12387&hilit=salek&start=50
Edit: Done, and these posts are now part of that new topic. --Zoloft
Edit: Done, and these posts are now part of that new topic. --Zoloft
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:28 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Sandstein thinks using the term "legacy admin" is blockable offense
- Replies: 52
- Views: 3113
Re: Sandstein thinks using the term "legacy admin" is blockable offense
Dan Rosenthal, finally far enough removed from his employment by the Wikimedia Foundation, to return to his main account. So it goes.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 11:20 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: UK academic’s Wikipedia project raises profile of women around the world
- Replies: 27
- Views: 736
Re: UK academic’s Wikipedia project raises profile of women around the world
Reading the headline and nothing else two words come to mind: Does it?
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 1:16 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: POLL: Do you know anyone (friends, family, colleagues) with a Wikipedia article?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1150
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 11:49 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: an LLM experiment: Cheese
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1374
Re: an LLM experiment: Cheese
A lot of those details are wrong and/or outdated, like you'd expect from ChatGPT, but overall not too bad. Some on the list I'd disagree with and it seems biased towards old drama, but most of the names would absolutely end up on Top 10 lists in their respective eras. I'm surprised Corbett or a few...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 2:18 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Worm that Turned has quit
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2040
Re: Worm that Turned has quit
Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
- Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:25 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930646
Re: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
What's really amazing about this is I am a pretty heavy twitter user, currently logged in, have a reasonably high follower account (25,000 or so) and can't read Musk's tweet because I, like pretty much everyone who uses the site daily, is now rate limited (his definition of "reading" tweets appears ...
- Wed May 24, 2023 1:03 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Rashid Buttar
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1850
Re: Rashid Buttar
Francis Albert lives!
- Tue May 23, 2023 10:44 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Rashid Buttar
- Replies: 42
- Views: 1850
- Sat Apr 15, 2023 2:34 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Jimbo asks Bradv if he encouraged paid editing
- Replies: 137
- Views: 8393
Re: Jimbo asks Bradv if he encouraged paid editing
If I may, the fact of the matter is "Wales loses editing rights for being a raging asshole ten years too late" is the heart of the matter (not suggesting this as a headline.) This was always inevitable, but it's amazing that it's taken this long.
- Sat Mar 11, 2023 1:43 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617405
Re: Wikipedia's worst sentences
Not a sentence, but I couldn't think of where else to put it. (two first paragraphs.) The chupacabra or chupacabras (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃupaˈkaβɾas], literally 'goat-sucker'; from Spanish: chupar, 'to suck', and cabras, 'goats') is a legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas,...
- Tue Feb 14, 2023 2:59 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia intentionally distorting Holocaust history?
- Replies: 801
- Views: 46459
Re: Wikipedia intentionally distorting Holocaust history?
My God. Arbcom. You magnificent morons.
- Tue Feb 07, 2023 5:10 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Why did Pakistan block Wikipedia? (was: "Pakistan 'degrades' Wikipedia etc.)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 940
Re: Pakistan "degrades" Wikipedia, warns of complete block (via TechCrunch)
Would it shock anyone to learn that decision making in Pakistan is chaotic, rife with rivalry and backstabbing, and rarely strategic?
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 4:18 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Larry Sanger: Wikipedia's QAnon Cultist Co-Founder
- Replies: 656
- Views: 75633
- Sat Jan 21, 2023 1:45 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: George Santos' Wikipedia account
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1842
Re: George Santos' Wikipedia account
So. Much. Brain. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3AAdministrators%27_noticeboard&diff=1134851977&oldid=1134850468,Damage . @Infrogmation per the oversight policy, "Suppression is a tool of first resort in removing...identities of pseudonymous or anonymous individuals who have no...
- Thu Jan 19, 2023 5:45 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617405
Re: Wikipedia's worst sentences
"This proved to be the beginning of a partnership which was prolific and continuous through the 1980s, together they co-wrote for Adams and a long list of recordings for other artists, including Kiss, Tina Turner, Joe Cocker, Johnny Hallyday, Bonnie Raitt, Rod Stewart, Bonnie Tyler, Loverboy, Carly ...
- Sat Jan 07, 2023 10:12 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: "Abstract Wikipedia"
- Replies: 41
- Views: 4442
Re: "Abstract Wikipedia"
WMF, never change. A response authored by eight Foundation staff members from the Abstract Wikipedia team (published simultaneously with the Fellows' evaluation) rejects these recommendations... Vrandečić's team then goes on to reject the evaluation's core recommendations, presenting the expansive s...
- Fri Jan 06, 2023 3:37 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Arabic Wikipedia admin purge
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5151
Re: Arabic Wikipedia admin purge
Spend money on subject matter experts with the appropriate language skills? To address a content scandal and the political persecution of their volunteers? Are they crazy?! The WMF only has $270mln in assets. Can't even buy a cup of coffee with that nowadays. Adding: It really is a perfect example o...
- Thu Jan 05, 2023 4:36 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Arabic Wikipedia admin purge
- Replies: 31
- Views: 5151
Arabic Wikipedia admin purge
Didn't see this posted here. If I missed it, apologies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-01-01/News_and_notes,By Andreas . It looks as if a bunch of admins were working for the Saudis, though they don't come out and say that. Somewhat interesting to me how this "invest...
- Wed Dec 07, 2022 4:29 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930646
Re: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
Sandstein has always been an idiot. The very notion that two unedited and unreviewed stream of consciousness whatevers published on substack and twitter at the direction of twitter's new owner should have their own entry in a so-called encyclopedia is beyond absurd - whatever the content might be. P...
- Wed Dec 07, 2022 12:38 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930646
Re: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
Ah, Jim Hoft. Takes me back it does. For those who don't know, just type "Dumbest man on the internet" into google are whatever search engine you prefer.
- Tue Dec 06, 2022 9:55 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930646
Re: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
Cheong (or whatever his real name is) is only known for being a very online nazi-fluffer, misogynist and death-by-virus proponent. He lives near Kuala Lumpur. If Wales gets drawn into this it will make my day and prove that the internet is a flat circle. A big, flat, stupid circle.
- Thu Nov 24, 2022 3:27 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930646
Re: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
Not mine. I never gave it to them.
Look at the big brain on Dan.
Look at the big brain on Dan.
- Wed Nov 23, 2022 1:29 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: RFC on WMF's intrusive ad banners on en.wp
- Replies: 57
- Views: 5278
Re: RFC on WMF's intrusive ad banners on en.wp
The word salad from, what, 4 board members and the Flounder there is quite something. Condensed: "You're our cow. We need to milk you. For the little girl in Africa. Why do you hate charity?"
- Fri Nov 18, 2022 6:57 pm
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
- Replies: 615
- Views: 930646
Re: Elon buys Twitter for $44 billion
I am fairly active on Twitter. Some people who have engineering experience at these types of websites are saying that serious outages are coming soon. Other people with experience are saying it can easily sail on for months with a little bit of luck and a skeleton crew. I have none of the requisite ...
- Fri Oct 14, 2022 1:44 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Athaenara - Schadenfreude and Outrage
- Replies: 762
- Views: 129255
Re: Athaenara - Schadenfreude and Outrage
I thought the show had lost its way. Stale, coasting, just didn't have the same punch anymore.
But this is the type of content the fandom has been craving. The new showrunners are to be commended.
But this is the type of content the fandom has been craving. The new showrunners are to be commended.
- Mon Aug 29, 2022 11:57 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Mike Lindell
- Replies: 7
- Views: 815
Mike Lindell
Cause where else am I going to share this? https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1564397738799816706 The only thing close to interesting about this to me is that I checked to see how many crazies this had attracted to the wikipedia article about him. So far, not a one. It's probably a reminder t...
- Sun May 08, 2022 12:07 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617405
Re: Wikipedia's worst sentences
Rich struggled throughout 1979 having hits with United Artists and Epic.
- Sat Apr 23, 2022 8:30 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WMF Board of Trustees: A Fish Rots from the Head Down
- Replies: 481
- Views: 334414
Re: WMF Board of Trustees: A Fish Rots from the Head Down
Controlling the candidate pool before the ritual Festival of Democracy works a treat in soft-dictatorships (until, you know, it doesn't.)
- Sat Apr 23, 2022 3:35 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Washington DC shooter is a wiki editor active in multiple articles related to shootings
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1139
Re: Washington DC shooter is a wiki editor active in multiple articles related to shootings
Wow. They instantly memory-holed the account, down to deleting the talk page. I don't know if there was anything juicy/interesting to find there. Neither did they. But they were determined to prevent people from finding out.
- Sat Apr 09, 2022 1:51 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: The mess Laura Hale left behind
- Replies: 98
- Views: 6470
Re: The mess Laura Hale left behind
The most interesting thing about this mess to me is that she is barely literate.
- Thu Mar 24, 2022 2:18 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Guerilla Skeptics on Wikipedia (GSoW) Arbcom case
- Replies: 77
- Views: 6515
Re: Guerilla Skeptics on Wikipedia (GSoW) Arbcom case
At the top of the Brews ohare ban discussion. "The following analysis supporting the topic ban was provided by IRL professional academic philosopher Peter Damian." Who was just then off an idiotic 5 year ban of his own.
So it goes, so it goes.
So it goes, so it goes.
- Mon Feb 28, 2022 2:55 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: So, are you the one who makes up all the rubbish?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 623
Re: So, are you the one who makes up all the rubbish?
I believe the kids call this a self own and the adults call it epistemic closure.
I call it fan-fucking-tastic.
I call it fan-fucking-tastic.
- Thu Feb 24, 2022 1:03 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Truly galaxy-brained timing for a Ukraine editathon
- Replies: 4
- Views: 493
Truly galaxy-brained timing for a Ukraine editathon
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ukraine%27s_Cultural_Diplomacy_Month,And now a word from our sponsors... Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month is an article writing contest focused on improving the coverage of Ukrainian culture on Wikipedia in different languages, organized by Wikimedia Ukraine in coo...
- Tue Feb 22, 2022 2:30 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: No more Wikipedia for me
- Replies: 60
- Views: 4202
- Mon Feb 21, 2022 8:31 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Universal CoC
- Replies: 290
- Views: 23404
Re: Universal CoC
Not even I expected the mandatory struggle session phase to arrive this soon.
- Sat Feb 05, 2022 1:38 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Supreme Court Wiki Stupidity
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1580
Supreme Court Wiki Stupidity
We Americans are https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/04/former-clerk-rewrites-supreme-court-wikipedia-bios-00005914,not a serious people . Those edits display a pattern: The page for Jackson, seen by many as a Supreme Court frontrunner, was tweaked to paint her in a more favorable light for a libe...
- Wed Feb 02, 2022 5:07 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: No more Wikipedia for me
- Replies: 60
- Views: 4202
Re: No more Wikipedia for me
Just globally locked by WMF legal. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special ... lAuth/Okip
- Mon Jan 24, 2022 12:58 am
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Haaretz journalist Omer Benjakob applies for foundation grant
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1594
Re: Haaretz journalist Omer Benjakob applies for foundation grant
This should be a slam-dunk refusal, right? You publish a fake-history conspiracy story by a San-Fran-banned waste of skin who tried to scam their way into advanced privileges as an administrator, you get shown the door. Possibly even get banned from further applications for grants, I'd hope. This n...
- Mon Jan 17, 2022 1:18 am
- Forum: Non-Wikimedia Wiki Sites
- Topic: Encyclosphere
- Replies: 307
- Views: 57357
Re: Encyclosphere
What they mean: (((Freeing technology from the control of the few))).
Larry. What a creep. I didn't see it soon enough. That's on me.
Larry. What a creep. I didn't see it soon enough. That's on me.
- Sat Jan 15, 2022 1:43 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Herostratus wants a hug from Jimbo
- Replies: 5
- Views: 658
Re: Herostratus wants a hug from Jimbo
I have an article on my watchlist of someone I think is a very very very bad human being. (Not famous, a propagandist I came across in my old life.) An edit to the infobox to the effect that she's a professional liar and dirtbag was made by an IP 5 days ago. And there it sits. Why do I bring this up...
- Sat Jan 08, 2022 3:16 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: The Bogdanoff Brothers are dead
- Replies: 4
- Views: 533
Re: The Bogdanoff Brothers are dead
I (like many here) am interested in outré ideas and people. I had never heard of the brothers or their long ago Wikipedia spat. This was a type of pop cultural and mental illness spectacle that strikes me as very, very French. Except for the anti-vaccine stuff. That's just bog standard stupidity pre...