Wikipediocracy

Randy from Boise

I can't even spite vote in that shit, I don't know these people I was going to vote against everyone but Barkeep is on the list. And he really would try to make it work, bad idea as it may be. So then I went to the candidates' page and ... pretty much what you said. Why are we electing these people...

Randy from Boise

Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:27 pm

tarantino wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:45 pm
Another article from Christopher F. Rufo.
Wait, Maher is a spook?

Only if she can scam plane tickets from deep pockets...

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Randy from Boise

Another article from Christopher F. Rufo. Katherine Maher’s Color Revolution During the volatile Arab Spring period..., Maher went to multiple countries.... Beginning in 2011, for example, she traveled multiple times to Tunisia.... In 2012, she traveled to a strategic city on the Turkey-Syria borde...

Randy from Boise

ltbdl wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 26, 2024 3:14 pm
the votes for u4c are open!

It took a surprisingly long time to click that many OPPOSE buttons. I need a stylus and a Wacom tablet or something.

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Randy from Boise

Fram never showing here is actually one of the biggest surprises in the history of this site.

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Randy from Boise

"A database that's built over time and continuously updated."

There you go.

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Randy from Boise

Matt Taibbi wrote a column about her a few days ago , but unfortunately you have to subscribe to his newsletter to read the whole thing. Katherine Maher, the new head of NPR, was a minor character in the Twitter Files. She was CEO of Wikimedia when the company was (like Twitter) being invited to el...

Randy from Boise

I appreciate the compliment, gents, but me? sane?? (Anyway, my utter unsuitability aside, I refuse to identify to the WMF; not effing safe.) You don't need to identify. You just need to electronically sign the Wikimedia Foundation Confidentiality Agreement for Nonpublic Information . Yeah, see, now...

Randy from Boise

1947 Gator Bowl 1. Not to me anyway 2. Taxslayer? 3. blank stare According to Gator Bowl TaxSlayer is the current sponsor. (That doesn't mean it is a good source.) I'm gonna stand up for a bowl game in 1947 as a YES to question 1 all day long. There were damned few bowls in that era. t

Randy from Boise

Vigilant wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:47 pm
I'm just disappointed the thread title wasn't "Must answer me these questions three, 'ere the other side he see "

Sight gag, as required.

There are some who call me...................... tim?

Randy from Boise

..........and it's a time for a return of New York Brad, who is, of course, the best Arb ever.

Fram would also be fun. Can you imagine the sound of WMF shitting bricks in quadraphonic stereo???

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Randy from Boise

I feel about the same. My dislike of Maher is from her time at the WMF and the shitty way she acted during Framgate, which backfired on her pretty badly with the rank and file. I think what a lot of people find off-putting about her is the tendency to resort to vague buzzword-speak with no real sub...

Randy from Boise

And you, Yngvadottir (T-C-L)!

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Randy from Boise

I also think Beebs/GenericUserName should change his name again to TotallyNotBeeblebrox (T-C-L) and should run for Arb Com again.

That would be most excellent.

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Randy from Boise

I'll throw my hat in on why Molly didn't make the block herself: sometimes that's the smart move. Raise the alarm instead of just swinging the hammer yourself. if somebody else, (or multiple somebodies) who was previously unaware of the issue is just as outraged, you got something like a consensus ...

Randy from Boise

We don't want Arbcom making new policy, that is not their job. Their job is to arbitrate protracted problems that the community CAN'T solve, and find solutions that are equitable and put the interests of the Project first, using existing policy as a basis. Policy changes should happen by consensus ...

Randy from Boise

*So here I am, outing someone again. Sure, someone practically asked me to do it, but I could have sent them a PM with the answer to their question, but I know that you want to know, too. Don't deny it. YOU....MONSTER! When will the pearl-clutching tear-dispenser crowd be along to pillory you for t...

Randy from Boise

thekohser wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:48 am
Priorities seem to be in order.

Hey Greg! Glad to see you back around these parts!

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Randy from Boise

Having read the backstory, other than digging out the original Signpost article, I'm not quite certain whether this is the first AN/I party of the UCoC era or the 32,415th episode of Corbetian Game of Thrones. Probably the latter because UCoC was not invoked. I still want my Kumbaya Block ™ royalty ...

Randy from Boise

I guess it is morning now, I will see if I get this typed up before Bennie demands dog frisbee and Bella wants her apple. 1. Care zero about this Jordan Peterson character. I've kind of assumed he's the new Milo — a far-right provocateur who is a bomb-thrower beloved by dumb people for "owning the l...

Randy from Boise

I've been collecting 25 cent royalties every time my phrase "San Fran Ban"™ is uttered. In my never-ending desire to keep those quarters rolling in, I'm gonna come up with a fresh trademarked expression for this, ummm, manhandling of our right-wing friend: this is a Kumbaya Block .™ Get used to dic...

Randy from Boise

I've been collecting 25 cent royalties every time my phrase "San Fran Ban"™ is uttered. In my never-ending desire to keep those quarters rolling in, I'm gonna come up with a fresh trademarked expression for this, ummm, manhandling of our right-wing friend: this is a Kumbaya Block .™ Get used to dick...

Randy from Boise

Jake, you are being a rude host not welcoming Ahypori to WPO. This was, after all, just his third post — and I reckon that's a newcomer by any reasonable standard save account registration date...

Welcome to WPO!

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Randy from Boise

And that is precisely why an Administrator can safely delete this article, citing WP:BLP. Weighing up the benefit to Wikipedia of keeping it compared to the potential distress caused to any relatives, is an easy calculation to make. Easy. It only requires one of Wikipedia's increasingly dwindling r...

Randy from Boise

During the current Trump court case, a man named Maxwell Azzarello lit himself on fire in a park near the court. ... All evidence suggests that Azzarello was mentally unwell. Ya think? I'm totally fine with WP serving its news aggregation function now, followed by the inevitable AfD challenge somew...

Randy from Boise

Kraken wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 20, 2024 2:56 am
If you were to replace the entire contents of the Wikipedia article Feminism (T-H-L) with three words.......
feminism iz gay
......how long do you think it would go undetected?

Don't cheat. Have an educated guess.

I would have guessed 22 seconds.

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Randy from Boise

Welcome to WPO.

Now fuck off.

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Randy from Boise

excellent overview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFkL4ME-8dQ Hey, that's a Molly White video! And the You Know Meter ™ is not ringing. Yaaaay. t P.S. Not sure I buy her conclusion that because the Right Wing onslaught against veracity in media is ongoing, therefore Maher is a good choice to ...

Randy from Boise

The Kraken at his best... But if you're gonna go with "bananas" for condom machines, I'd expect a more off-color metaphor.

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Randy from Boise

Vigilant wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:56 am

Robespierre?

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Randy from Boise

Here's a naive idea: ban stubs. There was a time and place for stubs -- but that time is long past. If you can't write 250 referenced words or more about a subject, it isn't an encyclopedia article. Here's a completely random Colts season stub. Whattaya propose doing about that? https://en.wikipedi...

Randy from Boise

It always irritates me when large organizations try to brand themselves as "a movement", or as we would say in Germany " eine Bewegung ". It always reminds me of the riddle "What was the brown object Beethoven left behind on his piano stool?" (Ans: His last movement.) Whydoya think they call it a "...

Randy from Boise

1991 Akron Zips football team 1. Is it immediately obvious why Wikipedia has this article? (Yes/No) Has? Yes. Should? Heck no. 2. Is it immediately obvious you can trust this article? (Yes/No) No. 3. Is the article better than a trusted Wikipedia alternative might offer? (Yes/No/N.A) The article co...

Randy from Boise

The biggest obstacle to people "seeing the light" about atheism is that atheists tend to be as dogmatic and deeply unpleasant as the deeply pious. The cult of reason ain't any less of a cult. As far Wikipedia's coverage, I don't think every article needs to talk about the historicity of Jesus, but ...

Randy from Boise

rnu, why don't you contribute to the DYK process and step in when you see problematic hooks? It can't be harder than posting about them here. That's a fair question. The reason is that I no longer edit Wikipedia and have no intention of ever returning. Wikipedia is the most unwelcoming platform I h...

Randy from Boise

Okay, I'll play, although I disagree that you're still calling Wikipedia an "encyclopedia." In fact, it's an online information compendium for the profiteers to harvest and has little to do with yesterday's encyclopedia. Jack Welpott Biography of a dead person (1923–2007) 1. Is it immediately obviou...

Randy from Boise

To review the Nihonjoe case: the edits were found to be pretty unproblematic, the lack of candor troubling, and the use of full protection buttons the main lasting issue. It's completely ridiculous busting a bureaucrat all the way to tenderfoot based on the actual evidence presented at that particu...

Randy from Boise

:XD Rollback: denied Even rollback, which is usually dished out as confetti :D I probably would've granted that one, because who cares, anyone can use Twinkle and I find its rollback function far superior, but I also can't disagree with the given reason for denying it. Autopatrolled, on the other h...

Randy from Boise

WMF, doing WMF things.

Fuck 'em.

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Randy from Boise

The mean kids are exactly that to kids kicked out of the clubhouse.

Why the hell would a former bureaucrat not have an autoconfirmed flag?!? That's just a fricking insult...

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Randy from Boise

There is probably something also to the notion of building that is part of the allure of Wikipedia to Wikipedians. I'd be super-curious to learn how many Wikipedians are hardcore collectors. To me, at least, there seems to be a really close parallel to WP content-building and collection-building. I...

Randy from Boise

There is probably something also to the notion of building that is part of the allure of Wikipedia to Wikipedians. I'd be super-curious to learn how many Wikipedians are hardcore collectors. To me, at least, there seems to be a really close parallel to WP content-building and collection-building. It...

Randy from Boise

I think there are just some people out there who have like a very specific type of brain where Wikipedia just like sort of tickles it just right, and like doing that kind of editing and curation just appeals to me. I find it really enjoyable. What a verbose way to say, "autism." Close, but not exac...

Randy from Boise

THANK YOU to Mr. Zoloft for the edit. Here is the money quote for me: So you've edited Wikipedia for about eighteen years. I think the simplest question is why do you still do it? Why did you start? Why do you continue? Well? I started because I was a curious kid who discovered that I could and that...

Randy from Boise

Well, you know, that was pretty, you know, boring.

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P.S. Lest you think I am being, you know, mean — I count 145 instances of "you know" in an interview that runs less than 36 minutes, which works out to one "you know" every 15 seconds.

Randy from Boise

I'm not exactly sure how "donor rights" are being protected. I don't doubt that there's some angle I am missing. It seems to me that this is an attempt to create an elected House of Lords, with about as much power. Visions of Dennis the Peasant with his elaborate system of governance for the anarcho...

Randy from Boise

A Spacebook dead pool might be fun.

I've got May 26.

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Randy from Boise

The WMF Kumbaya Klub has a new " Movement Charter " to shove down the community's throat to go with their brand-spankin'-new Code of Conduct . Chief author is an account named RamzyM (WMF) , with a first edit May 18, 2023. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Content/One-page_draft The W...

Randy from Boise

Vigilant wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:50 pm
You're a god damned delight.

I am so glad you joined.

+1

Randy from Boise

Kraken wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 11, 2024 12:58 pm
I'm pretty sure me and Tim were discussing "activities at Wikipedia related to it" in those last few posts, were we not?

I'm not sure if there's an equivalent adage from cricket, but baseball's words to the wise are: "don't argue balls and strikes with the umpire."

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