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by Michaeldsuarez
Wed Oct 09, 2019 3:24 pm
Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
Topic: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica
Replies: 239
Views: 30228

Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

tarantino wrote:
Michaeldsuarez wrote:ED is back, but it's at "encyclopediadramatica.rs" now.
That's where it was before it went down. It still gives a cloudflare gateway time-out error, and encyclopediadramatica.es is a parked domain.
Sorry, I meant to type "encyclopediadramatica.se".
by Michaeldsuarez
Wed Oct 09, 2019 1:35 am
Forum: Web 2.0: The Emperor's New Clothes
Topic: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica
Replies: 239
Views: 30228

Re: Existential crisis at Encyclopedia Dramatica

ED is back, but it's at "encyclopediadramatica.rs" now.
by Michaeldsuarez
Fri Aug 09, 2019 7:44 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: "Right-wing dictator" Hirohito
Replies: 11
Views: 972

Re: "Right-wing dictator" Hirohito

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caudillo&diff=910094971 Thanks again, Mangoe. Also, a special thanks to "Havsjö" and an anon for their recent revisions: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hirohito&diff=909983995&oldid=909806245 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Right-win...
by Michaeldsuarez
Fri Aug 09, 2019 3:58 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: "Right-wing dictator" Hirohito
Replies: 11
Views: 972

Re: "Right-wing dictator" Hirohito

Wikipedia has been equating Tenno (Japanese Emperor) with Fuehrer since March 2019:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Caudillo&diff=889709733

Once again, Wikipedia is equating a long-held and highly respected position in Japan with Hitler.
by Michaeldsuarez
Thu Aug 08, 2019 4:57 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: I manipulated Wikipedia for years unblocking my accounts
Replies: 7
Views: 727

Re: I manipulated Wikipedia for years unblocking my accounts

I've also seen instances of Oliver and Darryl talking to each other online, again outside the context of Wikipedia. Oliver ("Boglin") and Darryl ("Forests") in 2012: https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AForests&diff=1114101&oldid=1112896 https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=U...
by Michaeldsuarez
Wed Aug 07, 2019 1:55 am
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: I manipulated Wikipedia for years unblocking my accounts
Replies: 7
Views: 727

Re: I manipulated Wikipedia for years unblocking my accounts

I've seen Darryl outside the context of Wikipedia unblock requests. ---- "darryl" on mind-energy.net: https://forum.mind-energy.net/forum/skeptiko-podcast-forums/skeptiko-podcast/3751-strongest-evidence-for-survival?p=140396#post140396 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?page=Hippolyte_Baraduc...
by Michaeldsuarez
Wed Dec 20, 2017 9:22 am
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: School shooter William Atchison ("Eldigato")
Replies: 19
Views: 2103

Re: School shooter William Atchison ("Eldigato")

I also don't believe that anyone on the IRC at the time seriously wanted him to die. I think that they thought that Carasov was joking ... Anyone who really knew him would have known that he was serious. I simply explained what participants logged in at the time probably thought; I didn't claim tha...
by Michaeldsuarez
Tue Dec 19, 2017 3:01 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: School shooter William Atchison ("Eldigato")
Replies: 19
Views: 2103

Re: School shooter William Atchison ("Eldigato")

You didn't feel uncomfortable when Sean Carasov / /OldDirtyBtard put a bullet through his head after being egged on by his fellow EDiots? Sorry, that incident slipped my mind. That was over seven years ago. I was indeed sad. I knew Carasov better than I knew Atchison. I always enjoyed Carasov's pre...
by Michaeldsuarez
Sun Dec 17, 2017 6:15 am
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: School shooter William Atchison ("Eldigato")
Replies: 19
Views: 2103

Re: School shooter William Atchison ("Eldigato")

This is Stormfront/Daily Stormer material, as is a significant fraction of ED. How can you be comfortable associating with these people? I don't share their ideology, and I think that a lot of what they post is for show. I like observing and sometimes interacting with contrarians, provocateurs, and...
by Michaeldsuarez
Sun Dec 17, 2017 2:05 am
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: School shooter William Atchison ("Eldigato")
Replies: 19
Views: 2103

Re: School shooter William Atchison ("Eldigato")

You left out the most important part. He was AlGore, a fellow sysop of yours on ED. He was, regrettably, a sysop of ED. I didn't really knew him. I noticed some of his work on Special:NewPages and acknowledged him for it (When I was more active, I liked going through new pages and acknowledging peo...
by Michaeldsuarez
Sat Dec 16, 2017 5:35 am
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: School shooter William Atchison ("Eldigato")
Replies: 19
Views: 2103

Re: School shooter William Atchison ("Eldigato")

You left out the most important part. He was AlGore, a fellow sysop of yours on ED. He was, regrettably, a sysop of ED. I didn't really knew him. I noticed some of his work on Special:NewPages and acknowledged him for it (When I was more active, I liked going through new pages and acknowledging peo...
by Michaeldsuarez
Sat Dec 16, 2017 5:10 am
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: School shooter William Atchison ("Eldigato")
Replies: 19
Views: 2103

Re: Confessions of a former internet troll

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-mexico-school-shooter-had-secret-life-on-pro-trump-white-supremacy-sites,America's most recent school killer was an Encyclopedia Dramatica sysop. Despite later becoming a moderator of the site, one of Atchison’s most popular EncyclopediaDramatica accounts, AlGore, ...
by Michaeldsuarez
Wed Dec 13, 2017 12:14 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: School shooter William Atchison ("Eldigato")
Replies: 19
Views: 2103

Re: School shooter William Atchison ("Eldigato")

I haven't looked at the IP or Wikia edits. His Wikia activity is somewhat more interesting. He had at least two accounts and they both had sysop rights on the "Return to Blockland" wiki (rtb.wikia.com): http://rtb.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/GanonSephiroth http://rtb.wikia.com/wiki/Special...
by Michaeldsuarez
Wed Dec 13, 2017 1:06 am
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: School shooter William Atchison ("Eldigato")
Replies: 19
Views: 2103

Re: School shooter William Atchison ("Eldigato")

Zoloft wrote: :welcome:
...back!
Thanks, although I won't be too active.
Zoloft wrote:Is this in the media yet?
The shooting is in the media, but his relationship to wikis and forums isn't.
by Michaeldsuarez
Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:29 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: School shooter William Atchison ("Eldigato")
Replies: 19
Views: 2103

School shooter William Atchison ("Eldigato")

New Mexico shooter William Atchison was "Eldigato" on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Eldigato You can tell by the pseudonym and the interest in Blockland and guns. Possible IP addresses (resembles the IP addresses used on his Wikia vanity piece ): https://en.wikipedia...
by Michaeldsuarez
Sat Dec 10, 2016 2:06 am
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: The ones ArbCom covered up for: Gwaur, Pankkake, and Davidwr
Replies: 1
Views: 705

The ones ArbCom covered up for: Gwaur, Pankkake, and Davidwr

I've been going through the old MaliceAforethought leaks for overlooked details and loose ends and found this: http://archive.is/gdkGY#56%25 That leads to the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Gwaur~enwiki/Boxy_me&diff=113402846 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Use...
by Michaeldsuarez
Tue Nov 22, 2016 10:05 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: Creative Vandalism
Replies: 464
Views: 141749

Re: Subtle vandalism persists

Salvidrim wrote:*shrugs*
Thanks.
by Michaeldsuarez
Tue Nov 22, 2016 2:52 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: Creative Vandalism
Replies: 464
Views: 141749

Subtle vandalism persists

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Siad_Barre&diff=702338893

Former Somali dictator Siad Barre has been labeled "Major General-admiral" since January 2016. "General-admiral" is a reference to Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator.
by Michaeldsuarez
Tue Nov 15, 2016 2:55 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: No one noticed the Alexis Brimeyer apologist
Replies: 2
Views: 589

No one noticed the Alexis Brimeyer apologist

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce_Conde&diff=736772463&oldid=717352660 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alexis_Brimeyer&diff=736929732&oldid=735584734 Plus the rewriting of Ukrainian history: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Ukrainian_rulers&diff=736919192...
by Michaeldsuarez
Sun Nov 13, 2016 10:15 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: Jimbo's account hacked
Replies: 44
Views: 6895

Re: Jimbo's account hacked

Jimbo finally speaks, yet doesn't say anything that sheds light on the situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=749335568 I don't fully know what happened, of course, though I have some ideas. Presently I have a very strong password and also turned on two fact...
by Michaeldsuarez
Sun Nov 13, 2016 12:49 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: Jimbo's account hacked
Replies: 44
Views: 6895

Re: Jimbo's account hacked

The Wikipedians are in denial about being outclassed and beaten. One Wikipedian is calling OurMine "script-kiddies": https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Script_kiddie&diff=749159564 ( archive ) lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AOurMine&diff=749118696&oldid=735586203...
by Michaeldsuarez
Sun Nov 13, 2016 12:19 am
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: Jimbo's account hacked
Replies: 44
Views: 6895

Re: Jimbo's account hacked

The Wikipedians are in denial about being outclassed and beaten. One Wikipedian is calling OurMine "script-kiddies":

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Script_kiddie&diff=749159564 (archive)
by Michaeldsuarez
Sat Nov 12, 2016 10:13 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: Jimbo's account hacked
Replies: 44
Views: 6895

Re: Jimbo's account hacked

OurMine press release:

http://archive.is/1AIMB
OurMine wrote:Today our team reached to every Wikipedia accounts

how did we do that? we hacked Jimbo Wales with our private methods and after that we got one of their databases

Database name: enwiki
by Michaeldsuarez
Sat Nov 12, 2016 6:16 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: Jimbo's account hacked
Replies: 44
Views: 6895

Re: Jimbo's account hacked

Hex wrote:OurMine got Legoktm (T-C-L) as well.
"Ckoerner" and "Nirzardp" as well:

http://archive.is/ddRTh

http://archive.is/2khrg

Update: AlisonW, too:

http://archive.is/4TZIY

Update2: Angelo.romano:

http://archive.is/CZkyp
by Michaeldsuarez
Sat Nov 12, 2016 4:39 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: Jimbo's account hacked
Replies: 44
Views: 6895

Re: Jimbo's account hacked

They're now RevDel'ling the revisions, so here are some snapshots of the diff's they're trying to hide:

http://archive.is/a01um ("Donald_Trump")

http://archive.is/iCnDz ("Main_Page")

http://archive.is/EOZWu ("Barack_Obama")
by Michaeldsuarez
Sat Nov 12, 2016 1:44 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: Jimbo's account hacked
Replies: 44
Views: 6895

Re: Jimbo's account hacked

Isn't there some "Founder" toolkit that enables temporary freezing of all editing on Wikipedia? That would have made international news, if executed by the hacker. No, the "siteadmin" privilege isn't a part of the "Founder" toolkit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListGroupRights#founder You'...
by Michaeldsuarez
Sat Nov 12, 2016 12:56 am
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: Jimbo's account hacked
Replies: 44
Views: 6895

Re: Jimbo's account hacked

The accounts of Jdforrester and Ijon were also hacked:

http://archive.is/vH0rv

http://archive.is/bKXqH
by Michaeldsuarez
Sun Oct 23, 2016 1:29 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: "Right-wing dictator" Hirohito
Replies: 11
Views: 972

"Right-wing dictator" Hirohito

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Right-wing_dictatorship&diff=745486590 Wikipedia is calling the Showa Emperor a "right-wing dictator", and this is an "[automatically] accepted revision". Edit: The "Strongman (politics)" and "Dictatorship" articles have the same problem: https://en.wikipe...
by Michaeldsuarez
Sat Oct 15, 2016 11:15 am
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic
Replies: 45
Views: 6324

Re: Wikipedia fork: InfoGalactic

Zoloft wrote:One of their people sent me a link to the blog:
Dave Narby wrote:Just thought you'd appreciate knowing about this https://infogalactic.blogspot.com
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/10/wikipedia-where-information-goes-to-die.html
by Michaeldsuarez
Thu Jul 14, 2016 12:53 am
Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
Topic: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
Replies: 1085
Views: 58929

Re: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?

Vordrak is a massive tool-- no argument there-- but so what if Wordsmith offered to post his block appeal to ANI? Well, I merely noted it it down here; I posted the criticism at Wikipedia Sucks instead: http://wikipediasucks.boards.net/thread/183/wikipediocracy-arbcom-slate-wikipedia-right?page=1&s...
by Michaeldsuarez
Wed Jul 13, 2016 9:58 pm
Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
Topic: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
Replies: 1085
Views: 58929

Re: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&page=User%3AVordrak : 19:51, 5 June 2016 Floquenbeam (talk | contribs) changed block settings for Vordrak (talk | contribs) with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation blocked, email disabled, cannot edit own talk page) (clarify t...
by Michaeldsuarez
Wed Jul 06, 2016 1:11 am
Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
Topic: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
Replies: 1085
Views: 58929

Re: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&page=User%3AVordrak : 19:51, 5 June 2016 Floquenbeam (talk | contribs) changed block settings for Vordrak (talk | contribs) with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation blocked, email disabled, cannot edit own talk page) (clarify t...
by Michaeldsuarez
Sun Jun 05, 2016 9:16 pm
Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
Topic: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
Replies: 1085
Views: 58929

Re: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&page=User%3AVordrak : 19:51, 5 June 2016 Floquenbeam (talk | contribs) changed block settings for Vordrak (talk | contribs) with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation blocked, email disabled, cannot edit own talk page) (clarify t...
by Michaeldsuarez
Fri May 27, 2016 12:49 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: Wikipedia used fictional, alternate history flag since 2007
Replies: 0
Views: 1083

Wikipedia used fictional, alternate history flag since 2007

Last month, "Flag_of_the_Republic_of_Ezo.svg" was renamed to " Fictional _Flag_of_the_Republic_of_Ezo.svg": https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=move&page=File%3AFlag_of_the_Republic_of_Ezo.svg http://archive.is/nu1qv And removed from the enwiki article: https://en.wiki...
by Michaeldsuarez
Thu May 26, 2016 5:51 pm
Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
Topic: "Hassan Nemazee" article contains offensive Ukrainian word
Replies: 8
Views: 727

"Hassan Nemazee" article contains offensive Ukrainian word

http://archive.is/4kVjr The "Hassan Nemazee" article contains the Ukrainian version of the word "f*****" since July 2015 (nearly ten months now). Although I don't expect the most English Wikipedians to know Ukrainian, I have wonder why none of people who've touched the article since July 2015 thoug...
by Michaeldsuarez
Thu May 26, 2016 5:08 pm
Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
Topic: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?
Replies: 1085
Views: 58929

Re: Arbitrator mocks Trump in April 1st Signpost: BLP issue?

So I jut read at this [link]https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Motions&diff=prev&oldid=722116183[/link] where Risker is bothered a lot because: It is not necessary or even desirable for Arbcom to humiliate and shame people without taking the two minutes to sen...
by Michaeldsuarez
Tue May 24, 2016 5:53 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: "archive.is" added to the spam blacklist
Replies: 49
Views: 9058

Re: "archive.is" added to the spam blacklist

@Kww: You probably don't realize this, but the motivation for using proxies was actually stated quite plainly in 2010 : I had to use a proxy in order to edit, because my ISP's (fiber.cz) network is blocked as proxy. The blocked range 88.86.96.0/19 is not an anonymous proxy. It is network of 8192 IP ...
by Michaeldsuarez
Tue May 24, 2016 11:59 am
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: "archive.is" added to the spam blacklist
Replies: 49
Views: 9058

Re: "archive.is" added to the spam blacklist

You have an alternate explanation for the attacks? You think that archive.is somehow accidentally compromised hundreds of unrelated residential and business computers from all over the world and it was all some kind of big misunderstanding? You can't establish whether those machines were actually c...
by Michaeldsuarez
Mon May 23, 2016 7:35 pm
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: "archive.is" added to the spam blacklist
Replies: 49
Views: 9058

Re: "archive.is" added to the spam blacklist

Currently running 10:2 in favour. Dirk Beetstra opposes on the curious grounds that "this does not address the issues and consensuses of the previous RfCs and a supporting closure would not change anything". The previous "consensus" was the result of Kww and others promoting a conspiracy theory and...
by Michaeldsuarez
Mon May 09, 2016 12:16 am
Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
Topic: Wikipedians and passive-aggressiveness
Replies: 24
Views: 1019

Re: Wikipedians and passive-aggressiveness

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Requests_for_help_from_a_sysop_or_bureaucrat#Mathsci_is_abusing_the_thanking_feature_to_spam_my_notifications ( permalink ) I've never thought that I would have to create a thread on Mathsci, but here he is, using passive-aggressive retaliation against me. I say...