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I verified the quadrants. With the transfinite trickery "to infinity and beyond", Buzz Lightyear is from Gamma Quadrant. Amanda is from DeltaQuad. The mystical monk revealed to us the truth beyond the visible realm... See this discussion . DeltaQuad is resigning under a small cloud. I don't think t...

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I am of the opinion that content creation and admin work are two very different skill sets. Admins are like managers or support staff; they need to know enough to keep things running handle the processes that keep some semblance of order and manage the environment that allows actual writers and edit...

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I worked on an idea for a 'bottom up' way of setting up recalls with teeth by making use of existing processes; the 'voluntary recall' and a 'voluntary editing restriction' to turn it into a ' binding voluntary recall'. I got consensus for the idea of enforceable voluntary editing restrictions ie se...

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If equity is the "lens through which resource allocation happens," and resource allocation "drives equity," that means resource allocation is the lens through which resource allocation happens. It’s a lens unto itself, which creates a self-referential logical inconsistency (i.e., resource allocatio...

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What is she, fifteen? Maybe if WMF were a trans advocacy organization this would be appropriate but even then I suspect the value of the "statement" would be far outweighed by how off-putting the sheer lack of professionalism would be to, well... hell... even mainstream social justice advocates... ...

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https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2019-October/093630.html -- Katherine Maher (she/her) Executive Director What the ever loving hell, pronouns??!! That must be the most pretentiously unprofessional signature I have ever seen. What is she, fifteen? Maybe if WMF were a trans advocacy ...

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Top tip: avoid candidates who are into zoophilia . Hmmm... I would have pretty much taken that as a given, it is not like Arbcom is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Gaveston_Society,dining club . There are a potential/ex arbs who could be described as 'fucking muppets' but I think that would b...

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My snark above notwithstanding, I'm fairly impressed with LH's grasp of the situation, although I think her thoroughly original idea to "incentivize" the Long Term Content Contributors is rather unlikely. What it MIGHT be possible to do is briefly focus some significant part of this group for speci...

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Fram got fucked over because he stopped Laura Hale's paid COI editing and ran afoul of Maria Sefidari Huici's backdoor play through Trust and Safety. I just don't think you can accept that the volition here came from Ms. Sefidari without evidence. I think the alternative scenario, that LH had her o...

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The tender in question looks very much to me like it was an unsuccessful one for the contract that the APC eventually let to the University of Queensland's Murray Phillips, as I pointed out here. Thus, the sums of money mentioned in that tender document never went anywhere, because they consisted e...

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Does anyone know if the WMF paid for protection at the Harmonization Sprint this weekend, and if so, how much was spent? **Bah answered the wrong question. The short answer though is security would be more than WMF would want to pay and probably not fit for purpose anyway. Importing your own securi...

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The tender in question looks very much to me like it was an unsuccessful one for the contract that the APC eventually let to the University of Queensland's Murray Phillips, as I pointed out here. Thus, the sums of money mentioned in that tender document never went anywhere, because they consisted e...

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This is pertinent from SilkTork: I was discussing matters with Fram on Meta, and providing as much details as I could. The talks stalled, so not everything was discussed - certainly not as much as I would have liked. At this moment someone is making a complaint to the Stewards about the amount of d...

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Katherine Maher is like John Le Carré's George Smiley or Karla. She runs a global network of agents, whom she must travel to meet. At least *that* would make sense and be justifiable. Come to think about it... hmmm... Nah, not Smiley but maybe an "access agent" or a spotter/recruiter... :XD -- Jbh

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I bet the decline of Western society could be mapped to the slide of the alternative scene from "Punk rock" to "Death rocker" to "Goth" and finally the "Emo". I live in horror of what comes after emo (not really). Maybe the world will collapse into a Mad Maxian hellscape and we start at punk rock a...

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Something like this https://i.imgur.com/R7RRmNS.jpg but more awkward. That looks like the cover photo for an emo album... RfB I bet the decline of Western society could be mapped to the slide of the alternative scene from "Punk rock" to "Death rocker" to "Goth" and finally the "Emo". I live in horr...

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Seriously, why has the WMF been iterating failure for a decade? It's all about the Benjamins, baby! They give no fucks about efficacy or efficiency or even The Project itself. As long as they are able to convincingly pretend to work and the donations continue to roll in, it's all good. RfB So, basi...

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Wikipedia set out to create democratization of knowledge when most of the world could not reach a library or bookstore. It did that and now someone in a literal mud hut can learn about things they never would have imagined to ask about 25 years ago.For all its faults that is pretty amazing. The who...

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After the admin’s little outburst, we thought it would be appropriate to have a chat with him to discuss the misconceptions he feels so strongly about. 24-year-old Bonaventura Aditya Perdana, who goes by the name Bona, has been a Wikipedia administrator and contributor for years. While I expected h...

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Serious question: Does the Foundation never hire people with experience — the people who understand how organizations work, who get the issues inherent in working with people who are not only from different cultures but who have different social capital? (see [link]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard&oldid=915052551#Resignation_of_Courcelles Resignation of Courcelles Effective immediately, Courcelles (talk · contribs) has resigned from the Arbitration Committee. He has also relinquished the CheckUser and Over...

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Vigilant wrote:I nominate JBHunley for the Wikipedia Review Memorial Straight Shooter award.

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@RfB -- Thank you!

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No. The issues in the "harmonization" are just a reflection of the fall of Enlightenment values and thinking that has been accelerating for the last few years. The general rejection of expertise and knowledge to be replaced by "experience" (in the sense of the senses/personal not accumulated knowled...

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Dear Mr. Hunley, As you know, Laura Hale specializes in small groups that are just launching and lack the maturity of more established groups. She is now targeting a subset of the [US] Democratic Party that is organizing US voters who live abroad, specifically in Spain. As you know, such people typ...

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I wish her all the best in whatever she does -- In a a "don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out" kind of way. I view it differently. I'm adding Laura Hale to my 'professional herpes' list. Regardless of where she lands, any new employer will get the dossier on Laura Hale. She can be Ma...

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At least, these are the objections that'd be raised to going after Hale now on enwiki, in addition to the inevitable cries of victim blaming/victim harassment because Hale has managed to convince some powerful elements on enwiki that she was harassed (or at least "felt harassed", which in the non-n...

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For what it's worth a large porton of the Cell service is currently not working in the US. It could be related, but I'm not sure. Do you have any reporting on this? Regions/areas effected. I see Verizon down for most of the East Coast (FEMA Regions I-III) and a US Cellular map with I-III and a lot ...

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For what it's worth a large porton of the Cell service is currently not working in the US. It could be related, but I'm not sure. Do you have any reporting on this? Regions/areas effected. I see Verizon down for most of the East Coast (FEMA Regions I-III) and a US Cellular map with I-III and a lot ...

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I'm pretty incensed that a Wikipedia admin would delete, against normal practice, the talk page of an editor seemingly at the heart of an extremely high profile active Arbitration case. This is, in my opinion, made much worse when it demonstrated that there is evidence there that head of the WMF al...

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Additionally, I find zero corroborating evidence that Maria Sefidari is a professor. She appears to be an intermittent lecturer, at best. CODE SUBJECT SUBJECT DEPARTMENT AREA FULL NAME DOCTOR 615104 Communities in network: creation cooperative in Internet Wikimedia Foundation- Spain Maria-Khatoon S...

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... as we just had a candidate who used quite odd English wording while citing foreign language sources. Almost as though there were a 19th century English version of the text. Nah. I just write like that sometimes. Verily though I do at times make use of this -> [link]http://www.pangloss.com/seide...

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Semi related ... Years ago there used to be this guy who patrolled new pages. He wrote a clever little Python script that stripped the text and fed it thru a Google search looking for matches. Somewhere around 20% of new pages were cut and paste plagerism. Anyone know if new pages are still checked...

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To borrow from Rumsfield, there are 3 classes of Trump statements WRT his beliefs and intentions: Truths - statements that accurately reflect them (his beliefs and intentions) Known Untruths - statements reasonable people know do not accurately reflect them Unknown Untruths - statements that do not...

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An older ruling with the same respondents said simply violating a ToU was not a criminal act but circumventing a technical provision may be ie changing IP address to get around a block. See this article by the EFF in 2010 . I do not know how the two rulings relate to each other. --Jbh If you're on ...

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/07/12/9th-circuit-its-a-federal-crime-to-visit-a-website-after-being-told-not-to-visit-it/ May have some implications for people here. As always, 9ths is whackjobs that are the most overturned court ever. Also, unlikely the WMF would pur...

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Newyorkbrad wrote:
Jbhunley wrote: ...the world is ruled by Reptilians who are extracting free energy from the pyramids.
On-wiki we call them the ArbCom. Shhhh. Don't tell anyone.

Ahhh... That explains it. I was setting my expectations on them being the Vampire Illuminati.

--Jbh

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What is the purpose of the event? Are they trying for solutions or just getting together to talk about how bad things are and how everything would be better if only... (insert something anyone out of uni knows does not work in real life here) If you have four hours to spare, you could view today's ...

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Meanwhile, the event is PACKED! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClKNTscXEAQLT6T.jpg:small #divcon16 ( link ) Wow! So diverse. There is light white, off white, egg shell, just plain white... I am actually shocked, I thought there would be some, well, diversity. This does not look like a group of people ...

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Pseudoscience is pretty easy to spot. --Jbh It's easy for you to label something "Pseudoscience" but, unless you claim Papal infallibility, you are not necessarily right. Gah... did you miss the rest of the post?!? Do you not know the difference between faith and science?? Without actually describi...

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When I advocate fairness and balance somebody always pushes things to extremes by introducing the flat earth argument. I have a lot of sympathy for those who believe in a flat Earth. Their arguments are actually sublimely and selectively jejune in such a way to titillate the uneducated into believi...

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So, Jimbo's using the Wikimedia Foundation server to exploit his Talk page to promote the for-profit, publicly-traded wireless company that he runs? Astounding, the gall. Meh... He was asked by a poster earlier in the thread about what carrier he uses as a "world traveler". The timing of the questi...

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When they reach the point where they only have one customer left, will they have to change their name to "This One Guy's Operator"? Which raises another question: who is Jimmy Wales' cell carrier? Someone needs to ask him on his talk page. I wonder what the response will be? :evilgrin: "I use TPO.....

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First think they could do is yank the pathological BRD essay. As I have been complaining about in the Buttinsky section, plain old rude behavior is not just tolerated on WP, it is sanctioned. What kind of crazy advice is it to tell people to be bold, but it's okay if someone just summarily reverts ...

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First think they could do is yank the pathological BRD essay. As I have been complaining about in the Buttinsky section, plain old rude behavior is not just tolerated on WP, it is sanctioned. What kind of crazy advice is it to tell people to be bold, but it's okay if someone just summarily reverts ...

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You would need 100 editors voting "Yes" or the "No" votes will game out of the process. Why be the 100th voter if your vote is "No?" Like all good ArbCom processes, the only votes come on the last day (I call it "Assume Good Faith Day"). Both groups of "yes" and "no" wait until there are 100 yes vo...

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Those are some good ideas, however first you must establish that the community has the *authority* to recall Arbcom members. So long as they are nominally appointed by Jimbo there is no basis for recall as the community has no authority over them since *they did not actually elect them*. Jimbo didn...

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Is there anyone here who isn't banned or persona non grata, and maybe even respected in the community? Now that the case is winding down I want to start pushing some changes to ARBPOL and DR processes, and I'd like some help outlining and drafting them. This whole situation was a clusterfuck, but i...

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Is there anyone here who isn't banned or persona non grata, and maybe even respected in the community? Now that the case is winding down I want to start pushing some changes to ARBPOL and DR processes, and I'd like some help outlining and drafting them. This whole situation was a clusterfuck, but i...

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