Wikipediocracy

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I genuinely look forward to Barkeep's holding us accountable both during and after his term (in his words, "when he rails against this as a non-arb"), because I think it makes ArbCom function better when it is subject to external scrutiny when possible. I agree with Sdrqaz's observations, both abou...

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The Garbage Scow wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:41 pm
If he is truly broke he may have to go with a public defender.

Miranda was probably wrung dry and left in heavy debt.

I think it's more like, "No honor among thieves."

Her shenanigans smelled like grifter to me.

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Someone from inside NPR should interview a bunch of en.wp, WMF and WPO types and ask them if Maher was truthful in her enumeration of her accomplishments during her tenure.

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What?!

Miranda isn't sending over flipping great wadges of cash to support her hubby?!

Unpossible!!

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Katherine Maher says that she abandoned a "free and open" internet as the mission of Wikipedia, because those principles recapitulated a "white male Westernized construct" and "did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be." https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/178092926...

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Here's an idea en.wp types...

Don't shit on people who you think can't fight back.
Hold your most 'powerful' people to a higher standard than the hoi polloi.
Don't shoot the messenger.

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Well, we done voted for this new thing. How in the hell are we actually going to do it?! Nice work ARBCOM... Also, what are the new rules, asks nearly everyone. :popcorn: New procedure: Flail. ARBCOM rendering their next decision via interpretive dance. https://i.imgur.com/1p1uFGQ.gif

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Well, we done voted for this new thing. How in the hell are we actually going to do it?!

Nice work ARBCOM...

Also, what are the new rules, asks nearly everyone.

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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. 2,500 To any British kid, 500 words is a homework essay. That actually explains a LOT Sure. And that...

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Maher's vapid verbal diarrheal response.

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Come on.

The bits are all ranks.

Losing them is the kiss of death on en.wp.

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The Blue Newt wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:22 am

Vigilant wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:55 pm
"Please," squacked the baby Crow, "Who will sacrifice themselves for me?"
The thing is, this isn’t Crow’s fault, is it?

Asking someone to meatpuppet his utterings to WP:ANI is asking someone to fall on their sword for him.

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On that penultimate piece of advice, don't past accounts HAVE to be declared on new accounts except for super-specific circumstances? If she successfully appeals her TBAN, she may create a WP:CLEANSTART account. However, it's generally recommended not to return to the topic that caused controversy ...

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"Please," squacked the baby Crow, "Who will sacrifice themselves for me?"

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On that penultimate piece of advice, don't past accounts HAVE to be declared on new accounts except for super-specific circumstances? If she successfully appeals her TBAN, she may create a WP:CLEANSTART account. However, it's generally recommended not to return to the topic that caused controversy ...

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Do you have any more advice for me? Sure. Don't edit in areas where you have a clear conflict of interest using an account that can be easily traced back to you. Should I try to appeal the ban, or simply abandon the thought of editing in Mormon topics? Item B. Some people in the ANI discussion sugg...

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@Hey man im josh: I disagree. I'm being refused a permission that's generally easy to receive based on a decision made based on alleged evidence ArbCom refuses to disclose to me . I can't imagine what there is to get upset about. </sarc> Regardless, go ahead and cancel this request. I have better t...

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He's done.

Someone just needs to drop a Scarlet A on his user page.

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Suuuuuure.

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It's up and down.

When it's bad, it's intolerable.

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Fram admonished 2.1) For posting non-public information about another editor—after a previous post by Fram in the same thread was removed and oversighted—Fram is admonished against posting previously undisclosed information about other editors on Wikipedia ("outing") which is a violation of the har...

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OK, this is some funny shit right here. Rachel_Helps_(BYU) just added "adding paid connected contributor templates for pages I've contributed to per community request" to several HUNDRED articles... :popcorn: One more sign that Rachel Helps has acted and is acting in good faith and the fault lies m...

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OK, this is some funny shit right here. Rachel_Helps_(BYU) just added "adding paid connected contributor templates for pages I've contributed to per community request" to several HUNDRED articles... :popcorn: One more sign that Rachel Helps has acted and is acting in good faith and the fault lies m...

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Currently unusable.

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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...

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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."

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OK, this is some funny shit right here.

Rachel_Helps_(BYU) (T-C-L) just added "adding paid connected contributor templates for pages I've contributed to per community request" to several HUNDRED articles...

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The Blue Newt wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:12 pm
Does it ever get past the level of “Best there is, thanks to…well, modesty forbids?”

'Vapid' comes to mind.

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Only one sentence in this minifesto is relevant.

• safeguard donor rights, and financial interests of the movement,

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Is there a transcript?

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You're a god damned delight.

I am so glad you joined.

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Again: Super slow, internal server error, 500 return codes, etc.

Basically unusable.

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They're all "people", you dingbat.

I'm sorry your friend made such poor choices.

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Why aren't there hard topic bans in the remedies for NihonJoe? The main thing that has stuck during this case has been his use of buttons to put full protect on two of his articles. Frankly, the rest of it all was pretty weak sauce. He hasn't been a systematic content-manipulator, even if he has be...

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I'm seeing random bouts of long load time.

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Nihonjoe was a good boy after all. Little noticed. I'm dying to know how he came to the attention of Eddy Landwher. If nobody wants to spill the WO:BEANS, the depressing reality might well just be that it was dumb luck. A chance discovery while someone was looking for something else entirely. "Eddy...

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Time for Crow to find other things to do.

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Jesus.

Crow is soooo tedious.

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Now you've stooped to necro-posting two year old threads to try to get some screen time?

Dude.

Have some self-respect.

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Maxim adds the 6th vote to take the bits. Cue Joe putting his admin affairs in order, including upping the protection on his user pages... 06:54, 8 April 2024 diff hist 0‎ m User:Nihonjoe/vector.js ‎ Changed protection settings for "User:Nihonjoe/vector.js" ([Edit=Require autoconfirmed or confirmed...

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Is there an extension to the PHP framework that would replace the contents of each Crow post with the en.wp 'recent changes' and then ROT13 them?

I feel like we'd be getting more cogent postings.

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Why aren't there hard topic bans in the remedies for NihonJoe?

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Maxim adds the 6th vote to take the bits.

Why is there no remedy for a block?

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Thryduulf probably has the best take on all of this, which is why I've been bouncing comments with them on the talk pages. They try to have a balanced perspective of the "big picture", which I appreciate. Nihonjoe will surely lose his bits due to not disclosing, which I suppose is fair. That doesn'...

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el84 wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:11 pm
Today the servers have been a lot slower than usual, and I've been getting quite a few Internal Server 500 errors.

I'm getting 60 second load times.

The current forum is unusable.

Please do what is necessary to fix this.

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Good thing he's 'heard the community and taken their advice to heart'...

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Perhaps my favorite wikipedian deigns to join us. O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Heh. Thank you :XD (IIRC you once called me Yog Shoggoth. I just can't remember exactly how you spelt it.) Really not "deigned", more "dared". Also, like Randy, I'm procrastinating. So I will have to avoid getting su...

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And this, my Wikipedia friends, is why we need to accept that deducing Real Life ID is essential to identify problematic COI editing. We can be serious about either attacking COI-driven distortion of Wikipedia content or serious about preserving anonymity at all costs in all circumstances, but we c...

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