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- Tue Apr 25, 2017 10:47 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikitribune - the next great Wales failure
- Replies: 747
- Views: 127944
Re: Wikitribune - the next great Wales failure
And, of course, to the extent that it will harm The Guardian financially, is Jimmy in the clear? Clearly this was planned while he was a trustee of that newspaper, and privy to information concerning that paper. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales exits Guardian board over conflict of interest with Wi...
- Mon Feb 27, 2017 1:56 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WMF Strategy/2016-2017
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1538
Re: WMF Strategy/2016-2017
I think you're being a little unfair. So far the new strategy has also included 'language tweaks', and the addition of a missing apostrophe.Randy from Boise wrote:WMF Strategy
1. Raise as much money as possible.
2. Spend as much money as possible, preferably on new hires and junkets.
- Fri Sep 09, 2016 5:59 am
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: We're a small non-profit
- Replies: 51
- Views: 9657
Re: We're a small non-profit
Surely you don't actually believe that? They are raking in all those millions by knowing exactly what they are doing. And while their engineering might be laughable, their fundraising is first class.Randy from Boise wrote:That's absolutely what they THINK they said.
- Thu Aug 04, 2016 10:49 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Inactive admins who only make edits to keep the bit
- Replies: 294
- Views: 58663
Re: Inactive admins who only make edits to keep the bit
RfAs were just as fucked years ago when there were 15 or 20 going at any one time. It just stood out less. No matter what happens though, admins are just random amateurs grinding their own axe. The chance of it being taken off you is so small that there's no incentive to behave decently, although m...
- Thu Aug 04, 2016 10:35 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Inactive admins who only make edits to keep the bit
- Replies: 294
- Views: 58663
Re: Inactive admins who only make edits to keep the bit
RfA is such a clusterfuck precisely because there are so few of them and when the circus is only in town for 24 hours then all the local clowns come out in a hurry to audition. This is the best observation about RfA that I've read in a while. In addition to making it really obvious who has an axe t...
- Sat Feb 06, 2016 11:25 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Tragic: The Gathering
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1507
Re: Tragic: The Gathering
It is because they are arrogant, incompetent, and do not share any common interest with editors.Beeblebrox wrote:I don't know why they do this to us again and again.
- Thu Jan 07, 2016 6:14 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: So....anyone need a job?
- Replies: 101
- Views: 5444
Re: Time for paid employees of the WMF to replace ARBCOM
A business cannot survive, let alone thrive, under such conditions. Given this, I'd say it's absolutely not time for the WMF to branch out into new activities; if anything, it's a call to dramatically scale back current activities or even to consider outsourcing some of them. It isn't a business th...
- Thu Jan 07, 2016 6:08 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Monkey selfie & Commons
- Replies: 207
- Views: 20188
Re: Monkey selfie & Commons
It's going to be interesting seeing the reaction to this news - Monkey selfie case: judge rules animal cannot own his photo copyright.
A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that a macaque monkey who took now-famous selfie photographs cannot be declared the copyright owner of the photos.
- Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:00 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: The anarchy that is Wikipedia
- Replies: 12
- Views: 636
Re: The anarchy that is Wikipedia
Wikipedians pay lip service to consensus. I've always understood consensus to be a decision that everyone in a group can live with, i.e. a compromise. How does that work when the possible outcomes are binary? At RFA, you either make someone an admin or not. It's a vote, no matter how you dress it up...
- Fri Dec 04, 2015 4:48 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Inactive admins who only make edits to keep the bit
- Replies: 294
- Views: 58663
Re: Inactive admins who only make edits to keep the bit
Auggie wrote:Is it still possible to buy an admin account from one of these old-timers? What's the going rate?
I think I'll put mine up also. It's been tainted by poor behavior though, so I'll take $5.SB_Johnny wrote:Bidding starts at $1,001,001.
- Thu Jul 16, 2015 11:18 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Simple solutions to on-wiki harassment
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1011
Re: Simple solutions to on-wiki harassment
It's a collection of sources that anyone can add. There's no need to be an expert. Anyone can add information on all sorts of subjects, assuming they can google or haven't been banned from their public library, that's how wp became the mostly unreadable pile of crap it is now. Taking the unsorted i...
- Sat Jul 11, 2015 2:22 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WMF 2015-2016 Annual Plan
- Replies: 21
- Views: 919
Re: WMF 2015-2016 Annual Plan
...is available . From the Q&A page : How many people are you planning to hire? We plan to grow the Wikimedia Foundation staff from a projected 240 to 280, an increase of 17% over the prior fiscal year. :picard: It is pretty clear that their only performance metric is staff level. They are at a siz...
- Sat Jul 11, 2015 2:13 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: WMF 2015-2016 Annual Plan
- Replies: 21
- Views: 919
Re: Fundraising goal rises to $67m
I've written a few replies to this, but they all boil down to what the fuck are they doing with that money? Is it just a social welfare program for shitty developers?
- Tue Jul 07, 2015 6:11 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Is Scott a Hex offender?
- Replies: 193
- Views: 6500
Re: Is Scott a Hex offender?
1. An alternate theory would have it that people experienced with editing Wikipedia are too heavily invested in it to make fair and unbiased arbitration decisions. In my view, editing and arbitration are different skill sets, one does not necessarily lead to the other. 2. If you feel that arbitrati...
- Tue Jul 07, 2015 3:41 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Is Scott a Hex offender?
- Replies: 193
- Views: 6500
Re: Is Scott a Hex offender?
1) What do you suppose the correlation between 'experienced Wikipedians' and 'good at arbitration' is? 2) Why do you suppose that 'volunteers' (read elected in a popularity contest) would be a reasonable way to handle nearly intractable disputes such as Northern Ireland or Israel v Palestine? 3) Wh...
- Wed May 27, 2015 1:23 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: 3D pictures on Commons?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 897
Re: 3D pictures on Commons?
I can't wait for the 3D printable cock shots.
- Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:48 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: A new structure for WMF Engineering
- Replies: 51
- Views: 2253
Re: A new structure for WMF Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation Engineering reorganization FAQ Does this have anything to do with Erik Möller resigning? Definitely not. We’ve been rethinking the design of the Engineering organization for nearly a year now, with Erik deeply involved in that process. He’s been a key thought partner in sharing...
- Mon Mar 30, 2015 7:05 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Kourosh Karimkhany, new VP of Strategic Partnerships
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4645
Re: Kourosh Karimkhany, new VP of Strategic Partnerships
Is it an encyclopaedia? Or a rehab program for software geeks?tarantino wrote:There was a large structural reorganization a few days ago, too.
- Thu Jan 08, 2015 10:53 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: What is a sport?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1581
Re: What is a sport?
I know this predates even Usenet, so probably doesn't count for Wikipedia. Of course he never knew the perils of anonymous editing.“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.” - Hemingway
- Sun Jul 13, 2014 3:20 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Media Viewer - A new hope
- Replies: 329
- Views: 28764
Re: Media Viewer - A new hope
I generally agree with Seraphimblade's discussion in his statement. I think we always have jurisdiction to determine our own jurisdiction, including whether Eloquence's actions fall within one of the exceptions to our jurisdiction, and whether we may nonetheless take notice of it in light of the th...
- Thu Jul 03, 2014 9:51 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Tony1 resigns from Signpost over disagreement with Arb
- Replies: 177
- Views: 5084
Re: Tony1 resigns from Signpost over disagreement with Arb
The upshot of all this is probably that a template will be created to place on top of all temporarily-audio-only Signpost interviews, asking users to please not post their own transcripts prior to a certain date without advance permission. Or they could make a template asking editors who are Specia...
- Mon Jun 23, 2014 10:22 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedian robot plans to hitchhike across Canada
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3068
Re: Wikipedian robot plans to hitchhike across Canada
Could a reader here collect it, for later display in Greg's fetid basement?
- Thu Jun 19, 2014 5:37 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikipedian robot plans to hitchhike across Canada
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3068
Re: Wikipedian robot plans to hitchhike across Canada
Hopefully it ends up trapped in a seedy sex club, uploading all it sees to Commons.
- Tue Jun 03, 2014 3:55 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: The Roast of Greg Kohs
- Replies: 255
- Views: 9771
Re: The Roast of Greg Kohs
Notvelty wrote:Tell me you don't also think that twitter hashtags help bring back captured enslaved female students?
- Wed May 07, 2014 9:41 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia: charting the decline in participation
- Replies: 210
- Views: 7532
Re: Wikipedia: charting the decline in participation
Surely this describes a large part of the active editing population?Volunteer Marek wrote:...unless someone invents negative editors.
- Mon Apr 28, 2014 6:10 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Time to focus?
- Replies: 114
- Views: 2026
Re: Time to focus?
There are two things to be done to speed Wikipedia's death. First is to convince the people not involved in Wikipedia of two things: one, that Wikipedia's content is not reliable and two, that contributing to Wikipedia is neither cool nor fun. The second is to come up with viable alternative to Wik...
- Mon Apr 28, 2014 3:01 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Time to focus?
- Replies: 114
- Views: 2026
Re: Time to focus?
So I'll set the ball rolling. My fundamental thesis is that WP has two basic and intertwined flaws that it will likely never be able to resolve, and are likely to lead to its ultimate demise. And they are the out-dated notion that anyone can edit anything (which is a fiction anyway), and the ridicu...
- Tue Apr 08, 2014 1:30 am
- Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Topic: Aussie government workers told to fink each other out
- Replies: 1
- Views: 133
Re: Aussie government workers told to fink each other out
What some people call our society is actually a large scale production of 1984, directed by Rupert Murdoch.
- Tue Mar 25, 2014 9:25 pm
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Jimbo lays down the law on alternative medicine
- Replies: 105
- Views: 6715
Re: Jimbo lays down the law on alternative medicine
... and that would hurt their "participation rate", which they believe is tied to their donation rate, which is (of course) the only metric that matters. Has there ever been a study done to correlate donations with editing? I would have thought most donations come from the large benefactors/adverti...
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 4:38 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Wikimania 2015: "Africa is a bit of a black hole"
- Replies: 7
- Views: 287
Re: Wikimania 2015: "Africa is a bit of a black hole"
I've got very close friends who used to own a farm outside of Durban. The stories they tell about crime and violence in J'Berg and Durban are chilling. I can just imagine how a flock of pasty, fat, white American wannabe tech wienies would fare. I remember reading a few years ago about a UN officia...
- Sat Jan 04, 2014 7:03 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: End-of-year report: Wikipedia page views
- Replies: 53
- Views: 29436
Re: End-of-year report: Wikipedia page views
Google is different this year. It takes a little work to get to the WP page, the big colorful info box answers a lot of the lite trivia questions without having to sort through WP. For example, picking a name randomly from the sky, Google for "Jeremy Irons" generates in the left column: 1. IMDb 2. ...
- Fri Dec 20, 2013 2:19 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: See also: Guts
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1239
Re: See also: Guts
I'm not sure it's deletable without studying the issue. (I nominate very few things for deletion myself, even though I dwell at AfD.) The question is whether the incident did in fact spur legislation. RfB P.S. This very unspecific: "The child's injury led to federal legislation to make pools safer....
- Mon Dec 02, 2013 4:26 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: What the 2013 ArbCom candidates say about WPO
- Replies: 26
- Views: 2979
Re: What the 2013 ArbCom candidates say about WPO
Nice summary, Zoloft! I think the first three and the fifth are basically allowed and even called for by policy, but there's a surplus of petty, cheap, and World of Warcraft-style administrators targeting and picking off their victims for fun. In other words, their motive is, for example: why be sa...
- Mon Oct 14, 2013 1:14 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Most important attribute
- Replies: 12
- Views: 576
Re: Most important attribute
If the Wikimedia Foundation had some balls and issued a public statement saying it was going to put one attribute above all others, when it comes to Wikipedia, which attribute would you hope and pray that they would place at the top? (Currently, I think we all know their biggest priority is "Partic...
- Sat Aug 03, 2013 2:07 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: DYK licking for fun and profit
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1193
Re: DYK licking for fun and profit
It's a little hard to see the navel for all the fluff.
- Mon Jul 15, 2013 10:29 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Why does this article exist?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1414
Re: Why does this article exist?
Thing is, the article on Buster Gonad has a "See Also" that points to the article on Mr. Warren, which of course should be deleted immediately. Done. For what it's worth, I've been a Viz reader for something like twenty years, and I've chuckled at that incredibly puerile character any number of tim...
- Mon Jul 08, 2013 10:20 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Comment on Arbcom Accountability Project, Rev 2
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1809
Re: Comment on Arbcom Accountability Project, Rev 2
I generally support identifying Wikipedia editors - when there's a specific reason to do so. A scatter-shot "crowd-sourcing" effort to ID people I don't support. I recommend that "Triptych" host his project somewhere else. I see little upside for what we're trying to do here and a reasonable amount...
- Thu Jul 04, 2013 11:22 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: The Visual Editor is for... women
- Replies: 143
- Views: 3599
Re: The Visual Editor is for... women
- Wed Jun 26, 2013 6:05 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: How Wikimedia Commons became a massive amateur porn hub
- Replies: 43
- Views: 3027
Re: How Wikimedia Commons became a massive amateur porn hub
His bio would be a Gibraltar-solid, ironclad Keep at AfD, if anyone ever tries it. why should that be? Multiple published sources dealing substantially with the subject. So? Why on earth should an encyclopedia have an article about every character on the planet who happens to have a couple of refer...
- Tue May 21, 2013 8:07 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: The status of administrators
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1156
Re: The status of administrators
I think you greatly overestimate the amount that the general public knows or cares about Wikipedia's shortcomings. To most people it's just a website that has information handy on whatever subject they care to look up at the moment. So it's 'just a website that has information' yet they don't care ...
- Mon May 20, 2013 1:06 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Abandoning anonymity
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1595
Re: Abandoning anonymity
You should read fewer comic books.Wer900 wrote: ...As a consequence, Wikipedia's power players may not even be onsite, but rather drones who take up residence in depraved regions of the Internet, controlling vast networks of editors through fear of harassment or even outright fraud.
- Sun May 19, 2013 10:56 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Abandoning anonymity
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1595
Re: Abandoning anonymity
I don't think so. Maybe for a very small subset of editors it could be true. I think it would result in a vast improvement in quality that would far outweigh any negative aspect.Wer900 wrote:Using real names would result in tremendous off-wiki harassment of editors, their families, and friends.
- Thu May 16, 2013 2:39 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Cla68 is still blocked
- Replies: 70
- Views: 3556
Re: Cla68 is still blocked
It's a little more than that. Risker has said several times lately that there is a consistent "history" of problematic behavior on my part. What bothers me about this is that, before she was elected to ArbCom the first time, she sent me several emails appearing to support my efforts in trying to fi...
- Tue Apr 30, 2013 4:01 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: GWickwire
- Replies: 183
- Views: 9934
Re: GWickwire
For the initially challenged young one
- Mon Apr 22, 2013 10:32 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Money -> mouth
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1143
Re: Money -> mouth
I'm still keeping my veneer of anonymity Likewise. Mr fuckwit is still alive and kicking. And I have no intention of having that yapping little dog humping my leg. Damn it all how many get banned from their own blogger and wordpress blogs. Argh that fucker is everywhere. I stopped reading alt.machi...
- Sun Apr 21, 2013 10:35 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: List of Wikipedia controversies (reward!)
- Replies: 201
- Views: 7322
Re: List of Wikipedia controversies (reward!)
I don't know why the public's view on this is supposed to be determinative - <snip> It is because the public are the intended target for the whole project. There is no useful distinction between Wikipedia and Wikimedia in the context of illuminating the general public about Wikipedia/Wikimedia cont...
- Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:42 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: List of Wikipedia controversies (reward!)
- Replies: 201
- Views: 7322
Re: List of Wikipedia controversies (reward!)
There must be some DYK hooks in this. Especially the Gibraltarpedia one.
- Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:03 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Wikidata: is Jimbo more popular than Jesus?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6893
Re: Wikidata: is Jimbo more popular than Jesus?
My criticism is of Wikidata, not the blog post.EricBarbour wrote:Looks okay to me. Don't like it? Write a follow-up.
I'll start using the huge font, so it's easier to read.
- Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:47 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Wikidata: is Jimbo more popular than Jesus?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 6893
Re: Wikidata: is Jimbo more popular than Jesus?
Data? What data? My 5 random clicks led to these: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2691942 http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7104463 http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q357625 http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6093575 http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q767175 What attempts have been made to actually organize the supposed...
- Fri Apr 05, 2013 11:19 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Meet the editors: Meco
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1820
Re: Meet the editors: Meco
Lol, you have either led a very sheltered life or you just aren't pondering a lot on those questions. Teenagers getting porn from adults is like teenagers getting alcohol from adults. Where you have teenagers who want it badly enough, you have adults who don't care much about helping them get it. T...