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- Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Who are the Wikipediocracy Posters?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 948
Re: Who are the Wikipediocracy Posters?
Slight diversion, but there is something funny about it... there is a 'Last activity' field in a members' profile. But it doesn't seem visible all the time. For example, in Randy and Tarantino's profiles, it is blank (to me anyway): 'Last active: - '. but e.g. Anroth says 'Last active: Tue Apr 09, ...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 2:46 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30991
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
Here's an interesting thing. Two of HJ Mitchell's posts were removed. curprev 21:50, 3 April 2024 HJ Mitchell talk contribs 37,140 bytes +659 →Nihonjoe's conflicts of interests: vote curprev 21:41, 3 April 2024 HJ Mitchell talk contribs 36,481 bytes +2,091 →Proposed principles: votes They w...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:43 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30991
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
I don't think there's innately an issue with handling things in-house, but Wikipedia understandably isn't set up for a bureaucracy that would make that function effectively. Indeed. And a key to successfully running full in-house governance is to listen when outside observers point out things that ...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:36 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30991
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
Yes! ...This is just the latest in a long series of situations where it took outside, public pressure for the Committee or functionaries to take corrective action, from Laura Hale to Qworty to Tenebrae. Fundamentally if Wikipedians are expected to abide by OUTING without regard to the fact that COI...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:49 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Eostrix, current RfA candidate, ArbComBlocked as a sock of Icewhiz
- Replies: 312
- Views: 20146
Re: Eostrix, current RfA candidate, ArbComBlocked as a sock of Icewhiz
The other problem is that there's no quantitative way to determine the value of a Wikipedia account... Someone was offering 1/10th Bitcoin for the password to my admin account a few years ago (which got back to me via a trusted functionary, to check I had a strong password and used 2FA). Whether th...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30991
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
Much as I can sympathise with his frustration, there's nothing stopping Fram sending all that information to ArbCom by email without being limited by outing policy. This is true, he could have done that, but he wouldn't have, because he wouldn't known to look for it. It's not like ArbCom sent out a...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:04 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30991
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
Fram has posted on the evidence page in the Arbcom case. I will post the first part here since I'm going to reference it. Things we can't discuss It is rather ridiculous that we still have to pretend that Nihonjoe's real life identity is off-limits here, making it much harder to have a practical di...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:21 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Commons seems to be down [2/28/2024]
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1113
Re: Commmons seems to be down
I bow my head in respect to anyone attempting such a task.Elinruby wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:18 amYou haven't lived until you've explained binary math over the phoneBoing! said Zebedee wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:11 am
From my support days...
"Now press Return"
"OK, R, E, T..."
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:11 am
- Forum: Technology
- Topic: Commons seems to be down [2/28/2024]
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1113
Re: Commmons seems to be down
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:17 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Infoboxes for micronation cruft
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1109
Re: Infoboxes for micronation cruft
Imagination?AndyTheGrump wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:22 amGiven the vague definitions of the word 'micronation' that seem to be in circulation, why not both? 'Micronation' as a term doesn't really mean anything much anyway: basically, they exist as soon as someone imagines that they do...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: In real terms, Wikipedia are down 14 Administrators in the last year
- Replies: 70
- Views: 2908
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30991
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
Too obvious for a punk band... maybe a kids' TV series?
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:21 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Over 500 people sign petition against skeptic Wikipedia editors "suppression" of information regarding UFOs
- Replies: 58
- Views: 2271
Re: Over 500 people sign petition against skeptic Wikipedia editors "suppression" of information regarding UFOs
No you couldn'tKonveyor Belt wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 6:56 amWith the size of the internet today I daresay you could get 500 people to agree on just about anything.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Presenting the history: cultural bias on music pages
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1717
Re: Presenting the history: cultural bias on music pages
Axiomatic means self-evident.Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:17 pmI don't know what "axiomatic" means, but I'm going to guess from context that it refers to a pointless argument with someone who hasn't read all of the posts in this thread.
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:02 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: POLL: Do you know anyone (friends, family, colleagues) with a Wikipedia article?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1150
Re: POLL: Do you know anyone (friends, family, colleagues) with a Wikipedia article?
"The sum of all human knowledge" is a marketing phrase, as is "The encyclopedia anyone can edit". Noone should take (and should never have taken) either of them literally.
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:34 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Is IP editing a good thing? (please vote)
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1856
Re: Is IP editing a good thing? (please vote)
I'd like to think there is a parallel universe somewhere where the 'Wikipedia' equivalent insisted from the start on registration as a verifiable, named 'real world' person. Would it be better? I'd guess so, but I can't say for sure. It would certainly be very different. I wasn't on the Internet wh...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 5:30 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519213
Re: News from RFA
LTAs and socks can also potentially go on an "outing spree" that can't be stopped except by oversighters... not a problem, assuming there are enough oversighters that one of them promptly deals with it. Ordinary admins can rev del as a first step, and it can often take some time to actually get an ...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 5:01 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519213
Re: News from RFA
LTAs and socks can also potentially go on an "outing spree" that can't be stopped except by oversighters... not a problem, assuming there are enough oversighters that one of them promptly deals with it. Ordinary admins can rev-delete as a first step, and it can often take some time to actually get ...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:48 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519213
Re: News from RFA
" Take the ability to block extended-confirmed users out of the standard toolset. Kick that upstairs to a new committee – the English Wikipedia chapter of Universal Code of Conduct enforcement. " So someone could register, behave themselves until they get extended confirmed (as many LTAs and socks d...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:03 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519213
Re: News from RFA
There is now a central page for reviewing the RFA process: Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review Currently five proposals are open for discussion: Proposal 2: Add a reminder of civility norms at RfA, initiated by HouseBlaster Proposal 3: Add three days of discussion before voting (trial), in...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:25 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Steward election/reconfirmation
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2919
Re: Steward election/reconfirmation
glad I popped in while it was still open to add my oppose for Vituzzu. If I had a say in it, I'd also vote to remove all the other Italian admins who had any part in the Gitz affair. You misplaced it, after the "<section end="comments" />" line, so it doesn't show when it's transcluded (and I can't...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:56 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Which admins would fail if they had to do a new RfA for reelection?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 4447
Re: Which admins would fail if they had to do a new RfA for reelection?
Surprised nobody has mention Cullen328. It would be an interesting re-RfA—establishing community approval for admins advertising their services as paid advisors (or not)—which is why it will never happen. :nope: That's an interesting one. For years, we've heard about all the problems with organisat...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Which admins would fail if they had to do a new RfA for reelection?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 4447
Re: Which admins would fail if they had to do a new RfA for reelection?
Off the top of my head..... * I told Rschen7754 to fuck off. * I wrote "I silently cheer from the sidelines when Wikipediocracy fires both barrels at an admin doing silly things, that's good enough for me" which was criticised at the RfA. Nowadays I cheer somewhat less silently. * I hadn't pissed o...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 3:22 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Which admins would fail if they had to do a new RfA for reelection?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 4447
Re: Which admins would fail if they had to do a new RfA for reelection?
I guess I could still ask for my admin bit back (which I have no intention of doing), but if I ran for RfA again I'm sure I wouldn't pass now. I'm too jaded these days, too critical, spend too much time at criticism sites, and my recent activity has been very low.
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:15 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Mzajac and Bbb23 Wheel War
- Replies: 44
- Views: 4625
Re: Mzajac and Bbb23 Wheel War
Other than the involved parties and the Arbs, I count statements from 32 other people so far. They're mostly saying similar things to each other, and few are contributing anything that the Arbs don't already know or can't clearly see for themselves. And a lot of it is just general thoughts and opini...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:14 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia Sucks email spam
- Replies: 62
- Views: 5603
Re: Wikipedia Sucks email spam
Sucks is back up. I checked yesterday evening and today, and all I get is a 403 error. Did they block your IP? Not as far as I know, at least it wasn't blocked immediately prior to the site going down. I suppose it might be a UK IP thing, if the site's not set up properly.* *Just checked with a VPN...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 9:59 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia Sucks email spam
- Replies: 62
- Views: 5603
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 7:57 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia Sucks email spam
- Replies: 62
- Views: 5603
Re: Wikipedia Sucks email spam
Unfortunately I had some fallouts with the Bbb23sucks guy because of difference of opinions regarding the Oct 7 terrorist attacks. Are you sure your fallouts at Sucks are nothing to do with the huge great tissues of lies you tried to spin over there, just like you did here, and at Wikipedia for yea...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 9:27 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Pro-Israeli Canvassing 'n' Meatpuppeting at Arbcom
- Replies: 153
- Views: 7246
Re: P/I canvassing
When you receive an email you get a notification which I also assume is logged somewhere and can be checked. I don't think you do, unless someone manually puts the "ygm" template on your talk page. The MediaWiki software can tell who an email was sent to, but surely can't tell if it was received. h...
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:35 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Pro-Israeli Canvassing 'n' Meatpuppeting at Arbcom
- Replies: 153
- Views: 7246
Re: P/I canvassing
I don't think you do, unless someone manually puts the "ygm" template on your talk page.
The MediaWiki software can tell who an email was sent to, but surely can't tell if it was received.
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 8:21 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: "An Interview With My Wikipedian"
- Replies: 67
- Views: 10318
Re: "An Interview With My Wikipedian"
Which is where I come down on the other side. Unless the subject of the biography is (in)famous, they should have the ability to easily opt-out. Yep, I'm on that side of it too. Unless it's someone who clearly needs to be included in an encyclopedia through public fame, individuals should have a wa...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:56 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519213
Re: News from RFA
Hm, looks like that's how it happened, thanks Boing. I'm sure there's nothing vitally important in those diffs, but if I were in the candidate's shoes, I'd probably want my "reinstatement to teh communitah" to be part of the public record. Of course, the RfA is doomed either way. Yes, I think I'd w...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 6:01 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519213
Re: News from RFA
From what I can tell, the successful unblock request also isn't archived anywhere. The " 11:20, 4 January 2019 " revision, says " Removing old messages ", and I'm guessing that included the unblock request. So it wasn't archived manually, and was already gone by the time automatic archiving was se...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 1:07 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Rejecting CW Unblock Request for his username
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1896
Re: Rejecting CW Unblock Request for his username
Considering there's a clear consensus emerging that the username is a bad choice, why not just say "OK, I'll change it"?
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 3:35 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519213
Re: News from RFA
It's a really common name in the US, so the prior odds of it being used on any animal (including a hawk) without thinking about the "joke" aren't especially low. I'm sure there are thousands of animals named "Mike" or some variant thereof in the US. Someone naming a hawk "York" on the other hand is...
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 5:30 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Falafel
- Replies: 45
- Views: 4926
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 4:27 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Unblockable? Beyond My Ken
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4518
Re: Unblockable? Beyond My Ken
User Jennsaurus made allegations about serious past misbehavior. No evidence offered, but I wouldn't be too surprised if they were true. User Jennsaurus is OberRanks, one of Wikipedia's worst ever liars and fantasists - booted out for massive fabrication of content and sources, stretching back more...
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 8:15 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519213
Re: News from RFA
Well, it took hard work from a number of people, but he was finally persuaded to drop it. (Apologies if I helped spoil the entertainment.)
- Sat Dec 16, 2023 7:48 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: News from RFA
- Replies: 1034
- Views: 519213
Re: News from RFA
Wow, and that's after some very candid and blunt advice on their talk page. It's going to be painful to watch.C&B wrote: ↑Sat Dec 16, 2023 6:21 pmIt's going to happen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... ip/GoodDay
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:13 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
- Replies: 1586
- Views: 494937
Re: The Nicholas Alahverdian Story
It's shocking that it's taken *two years* to get this far. It should just have been - fingerprints, DNA test, send him home.
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:45 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Admin refuses to read
- Replies: 141
- Views: 213072
Re: Admin refuses to read
Billions of people use windows, millions in Germany alone. It's not some niche OS. I fail to understand how using the same the operating system as a sock could be used to match me with him. Not that one, or any other, specific thing, no. That's what I've been trying to get over to you all along, bu...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 4:50 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Admin refuses to read
- Replies: 141
- Views: 213072
Re: Admin refuses to read
Kaiser Geographic location: https://spi-tools.toolforge.org/spi/ip-analysis/Kaiser%20von%20Europa/ I'd made it pretty clear from very early on that I'm from Hessen, not Berlin. I have no idea what a subnet is, though even I were a sock, I'd probably changed my internet provider at least once in the...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 1:48 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Admin refuses to read
- Replies: 141
- Views: 213072
Re: Admin refuses to read
A bit late, but: If the licence plate numbers don't match, then what has CU even proven? Then the entire case will be based on matching description, for example both of them smuggle drugs and look alike. But at that point, the admins must also review my rebuttals to the descriptions, and answer the...
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 9:59 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Admin refuses to read
- Replies: 141
- Views: 213072
Re: Admin refuses to read
Well, nothing whatsoever wrong with that obsession. There are two ways to handle it, though:by learning and thinking, or by repeating the simple fact of your inherent rightness to yourself and anyone cursed to have to listen. The latter is big on Wikipedia, last I saw. It's actually quite big with ...
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:35 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Admin refuses to read
- Replies: 141
- Views: 213072
Re: Admin refuses to read
Zoll, there is literally nothing you can say that will convince admins or checkusers that you aren’t/weren’t a sock. I know that because I’m not buying it and I don’t have access to CU data. +1 from me too. I hinted above that there are reasons I might not believe the story, but I don't want to go ...
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:49 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Admin refuses to read
- Replies: 141
- Views: 213072
Re: Admin refuses to read
But the registration office has a list of cars and their licence plates I've ever driven. Sigh, the perils of analogy (and they don't have a list of all the cars you've ever driven - like friends' cars, stolen cars, etc - but never mind that.) CheckUser *does not* have a list of all the IPs you, th...
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:23 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Admin refuses to read
- Replies: 141
- Views: 213072
Re: Admin refuses to read
...and then comparing it to Kaisers will reveal the truth. I really don't understand how you can think that - but please just accept that it's not your way out. If they have his IP, how can't it be the way out? Let me suggest an analogy... " But officer, you know the number of the car that was used...
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:15 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Admin refuses to read
- Replies: 141
- Views: 213072
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 3:56 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Admin refuses to read
- Replies: 141
- Views: 213072
Re: Admin refuses to read
Isn't appealing to ArbCom an option? If you mean to plead innocence, see option 1. Also, they refused me a second CU check, because it wasn't de jure a CU block, but it seems like there's a de facto rule that no admin should unblock users who've been CU confirmed. A second CU would only show the sa...
- Tue Dec 05, 2023 3:54 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Admin refuses to read
- Replies: 141
- Views: 213072
Re: Admin refuses to read
PS: Whatever you choose, I would recommend you forget approaches along the lines of " Also why would xxx get banned and years later decide to create another account randomly, even when he could've taken the standard offer a long time ago...? " In the years I've been there, I've seen people doing exa...