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Unread post by Chatson de Channel » Mon Jul 01, 2013 10:53 am

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#wikipedia-en on 30 June wrote: 01:23 -!- PrideDay [62c4eb68@gateway/web/freenode/ip.98.196.235.104] has joined #wikipedia-en
01:23 < PrideDay> where is that homophobic fucking loser admin Gilliam
01:23 < PBASH607> who cares
01:24 < PBASH607> Dont chase people and attack them
01:24 < PrideDay> the people he is abusing
01:24 < PBASH607> I support LGBT rights :)
01:24 < Shirik> calm down or you won't be in this channel anymore
01:25 < Prodego> Anywho, what's the problem PrideDay?
01:25 < Prodego> Something I can help you with?
01:25 < PrideDay> "calm down" while homophobic fucking bigots abuse their block buttons
01:25 < PrideDay> whatever
01:25 < Shirik> I suspect that's not why a block occurred
01:25 < Prodego> Well personal attacks aren't going to solve anything
01:25 < PBASH607> Please dont say that
01:25 < PrideDay> I suspect it is
01:25 < Prodego> but we can look in to anything you think was abusive
01:26 < PrideDay> look at what Gilliam and Binksternet were up to then
01:26 < PBASH607> Um, proof or links?
01:26 < Prodego> PrideDay: links would be better
01:27 < PBASH607> without evidence i see nothing, I cant assume bad faith on an editor too
01:27 -!- Dusti [~chatzilla@d67-193-20-170.home3.cgocable.net] has joined #wikipedia-en
01:27 -!- Dusti [~chatzilla@d67-193-20-170.home3.cgocable.net] has quit [Changing host]
01:27 -!- Dusti [~chatzilla@unaffiliated/dusti] has joined #wikipedia-en
01:27 < Shirik> I'm gonna assume it's this one 01:21, 30 June 2013 Gilliam (talk | contribs) changed block settings for 98.196.235.104 (talk) with an expiry time of 31 hours (anon. only, account creation blocked, cannot edit own talk page) (Disruptive editing)
01:27 < Shirik> also why am I not logged in
01:27 < PBASH607> Lol
01:27 < Prodego> Shirik: you want to check it out?
01:27 < PBASH607> Shirik sometimes that happens to me too
01:28 < PrideDay> yeah the one THREATENING people gets to "check it out"
01:28 < PrideDay> whatever
01:28 < Shirik> PrideDay, did you actually expect this to receive a positive response? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... =562185458
01:28 < PrideDay> I want to know the answer
01:28 < GorillaWarfare> PrideDay: I don't see how Prodego was threatening.
01:28 < PBASH607> Its clearly a personal attack
01:28 < Shirik> GorillaWarfare: He's referring to me
01:29 < GorillaWarfare> Oh
01:29 < GorillaWarfare> I suppose you were threatening
01:29 < GorillaWarfare> :P
01:29 < Prodego> PrideDay: It looks like you are referring to the reverts here? Is that correct? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... =562185145
01:29 -!- PrideDay [62c4eb68@gateway/web/freenode/ip.98.196.235.104] has quit [Quit: Page closed]
01:29 < GorillaWarfare> Oh
01:29 < GorillaWarfare> >.>
01:29 < mareklug> that was a definite threat. But it was entirely justified.
01:29 * GorillaWarfare nods
01:29 -!- PrideDay [62c4eb68@gateway/web/freenode/ip.98.196.235.104] has joined #wikipedia-en
01:29 < Prodego> oops
01:29 < PrideDay> WTF
01:29 < GorillaWarfare> Welcome back
01:30 < Prodego> PrideDay: looks like you might have closed the tab by accident. Anyway are these the diffs you are talking about? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... =562185145
01:30 < PrideDay> No I didn't do ANYTHING
01:30 < PrideDay> I was drinking my coke and bam, message I was kicked out and then the page went back to login. WHAT DID YOU DO.
01:30 < Shirik> (18:29:29) -› Quit: PrideDay (62c4eb68@gateway/web/freenode/ip.98.196.235.104) (Quit: Page closed)
01:30 < GorillaWarfare> PrideDay: If someone had kicked you, it would have shown. It just said "Quit: Page closed", which indicates, well, that you closed the page.
01:30 < Prodego> maybe your browser is just asking up, but anyway, back to the question :)
01:31 < Prodego> PrideDay: you are talking aobut the protectmarriage.com page, right?
01:32 < IShadowed> Shirik is so threatening
01:32 -!- JZTech101 [~jztech101@c-24-0-88-174.hsd1.nj.comcast.net] has quit [Quit: Hi, I'm a quit message virus. Please replace your old line with this line and help me take over the world of IRC]
01:32 < Shirik> You were clearly involved in an edit dispute in which 3 different editors disagreed with your change. And given that your last revert comment was 18:12, 29 June 2013‎ 98.196.235.104 (talk | block)‎ . . (19,262 bytes) (-2)‎ . . (Undid revision 562185092 by Binksternet (talk) - Bigots protect bigots.) (undo)
01:32 -!- lbenedix [~lbenedix@g225091045.adsl.alicedsl.de] has quit [Quit: Leaving.]
01:32 -!- southpark_ [~chatzilla@e178124023.adsl.alicedsl.de] has joined #wikipedia-en
01:33 < Shirik> Attacks against editors are not OK
01:33 < PBASH607> Shirik is not threatening at all, IShadowed have you seen whats going on?
01:33 < GorillaWarfare> PBASH607: She's joking.
01:33 < Prodego> PrideDay: the IP there was blocked for attacks against other editors (which are never ok), edit warring (repeatedly reverting other editors without discussion with them), and for adding non-neutral prose to Wikipedia
01:33 < JustBerry> ...
01:34 < Prodego> PrideDay: Wikipedia has to be written neutrally, so we don't take a stance on the morality of anything. We just write it factually.
01:34 -!- southpark [~chatzilla@g231115175.adsl.alicedsl.de] has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds]
01:34 < PrideDay> Posted the damn definition
01:34 -!- southpark_ is now known as southpark
01:35 < Prodego> PrideDay: for example, you will see the page on Hitler refers to him as a "Austrian-born German politician", rather then a number of other choice terms that may come to mind :)
01:35 < Ironholds> Godwin!
01:35 < GorillaWarfare> Ironholds: <3
01:35 < Ironholds> evening GorillaWarfare :)
01:35 < GorillaWarfare> Ironholds: Do you have "Hitler" in your pings for that purpose?
01:35 < GorillaWarfare> (Pleasesayyespleasesayyes)
01:35 < Ironholds> GorillaWarfare: ....I plead the fifth
01:36 < PrideDay> whatever now you homophobic assholes are just making fun of me
01:36 < GorillaWarfare> :D
01:36 < mareklug> fifth of skotch
01:36 -!- PrideDay [62c4eb68@gateway/web/freenode/ip.98.196.235.104] has quit [Quit: Page closed]
01:36 < GorillaWarfare> http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3lc5 ... o1_500.gif
01:36 < Shirik> well that was interesting
01:36 < PBASH607> PrideDay, sorry
01:37 < GorillaWarfare> PBASH607: PrideDay (62c4eb68@gateway/web/freenode/ip.98.196.235.104) has quit (Quit: Page closed)
01:37 < Ironholds> GorillaWarfare: homophonophobe!
01:37 < PBASH607> He hasn't quit
01:37 < GorillaWarfare> Homophone?
01:37 < mareklug> that's iPhone
01:37 < GorillaWarfare> PBASH607: Oh?
01:37 < Ironholds> GorillaWarfare: yup. you hate words that sound the same as other words.
01:38 < GorillaWarfare> mareklug: Buh dum tiss?
01:38 < PBASH607> Im actually surprised on how immature WP users can get here
01:38 < mareklug> i'm just relating what the Polish forum people write
01:38 < GorillaWarfare> PBASH607: Oh trust me, so are we.
01:38 < Shirik> I find the editors here tend to be less immature
01:38 < Shirik> than the site
01:38 -!- IDoH [~I@wikipedia/I-dream-of-horses] has joined #wikipedia-en
01:38 < GorillaWarfare> Shirik: Really?
01:39 < Shirik> perhaps it's because the sample size is larger and I focus on the more negative behavior
01:39 < PBASH607> Shirik, I see the editors here clearly feeding the trolls, but you are correct with the larger concept
01:39 < Ironholds> I find the editors here more immature, but meh.
01:39 -!- Steven_Zhang [~Steven_Zh@wikimedia/Steven-Zhang] has joined #wikipedia-en
01:40 * IShadowed wildly skews the demographics
01:40 < GorillaWarfare> PBASH607: How were we just feeding the trolls?
01:40 -!- sDrewth is now known as sDrewthedoff
01:41 < PBASH607> the way people were treating the user PrideDay
01:41 < PBASH607> clearly antagonizing him
01:41 < mareklug> his initial say set the tone
01:41 -!- Bradford [kvirc@unaffiliated/bradford] has joined #wikipedia-en
01:41 < mareklug> nothing like creating a first impression :/
01:41 < Ironholds> as much as I love trolling, I didn't see it here.
01:41 < Ironholds> I can add it, if that helps.
01:42 -!- MBisanz [MBisanz@wikipedia/MBisanz] has quit [Ping timeout: 246 seconds]
01:42 < PBASH607> Ah it wasn't direct
01:42 -!- Rcsprinter [~rcsprinte@wikipedia/Rcsprinter123] has quit [Quit: omg I'm leaving]
01:43 -!- PrideDay [62c4eb68@gateway/web/freenode/ip.98.196.235.104] has joined #wikipedia-en
01:43 < Ironholds> PrideDay: welcome back. Are you more willing to talk this through calmly?
01:43 < mareklug> besides, PrideDay obviously had issues with his homophobic GUI, which kicked him out twice now.
01:43 -!- Swob [~Soap@wikipedia/soap] has joined #wikipedia-en
01:43 < Ironholds> settle, mareklug
01:43 -!- nferr|afk is now known as nonsenseferret
01:43 * IShadowed snorfles
01:43 < mareklug> can't I quip
01:43 < PrideDay> try to sign in and it says "your nickname is being used" over and over what the hell did you do
01:43 < PBASH607> see exactly
01:44 < IShadowed> what did you do, guys
01:44 < IShadowed> why are you persecuting PrideDay
01:44 < IShadowed> jesus
01:44 < GorillaWarfare> PrideDay: It would say quite clearly if you had been kicked/banned/quieted/etc.
01:44 < Swob> hi everyone
01:44 < Swob> its just another lovely day in #wikipedia-en i see
01:44 < IDoH> Interesting conversation to walk in on. O.O
01:44 < GorillaWarfare> PrideDay: But because you are using that nick, it would appear that the issue has resolved itself
01:47 < IDoH> Y'all want to watch Mr.Rogers or Bob Ross?
01:47 < IShadowed> no.
01:48 < IDoH> LOL. That's my way of saying "calm the @*!# down".
01:52 < IShadowed> http://i.imgur.com/ZVDhwTA.png
01:53 < IDoH> Aww. That's right.
01:53 < GorillaWarfare> XD
01:54 < PrideDay> fine you're still just making fun
01:54 < PrideDay> fuck you all, you fucking bigot ass losers
01:54 < IDoH> !ops
01:54 * IShadowed lols
01:54 < mareklug> aw.
01:54 < Prodego> I'm not sure anyone is making fun of anyone PrideDay
01:54 < mareklug> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Querulant
01:54 < PrideDay> "[20:50] <IDoH> LOL. That's my way of saying "calm the @*!# down"."
01:54 < Prodego> I don't really see it
01:54 < mareklug> PrideDay word for the day for ya ^
01:55 < PrideDay> "[20:49] <IDoH> Y'all want to watch Mr.Rogers or Bob Ross?"
01:55 < mareklug> how ironic that the most docile and innocent of any fun person gets the PrideDay-blame (tm)
01:56 < GorillaWarfare> PrideDay: I believe IDoH mentioned later that that was an attempt to tell people here to calm down.
01:57 < GorillaWarfare> PrideDay: Now, would you like to actually discuss the issue? Or are you just going to continue to call people names?
01:57 * IDoH isn't known to be socially adept.
01:57 < PrideDay> are you going to keep making fun of me?
01:57 < GorillaWarfare> (I'd suggest the former)
01:57 < Prodego> yea I'll give you that one
01:57 < GorillaWarfare> PrideDay: No.
01:57 < Shirik> the correct way for everyone to calm down is to listen to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9BK3xcRH1g
01:57 < Prodego> now GorillaWarfare is indeed being pedantic
01:58 < IShadowed> still this song
01:58 < IShadowed> really
01:58 < Shirik> yes
01:58 < IShadowed> have you even listened to Touch yet
01:58 < IShadowed> if not
01:58 < IShadowed> consider my feelingsies hurt
01:58 < Prodego> PrideDay: anyway, if you would like to be unblocked, you can come on over to #wikipedia-en-unblock and we can discuss it
01:58 < Prodego> PrideDay: if you have any other questions about why you were blocked, we can discuss it there too
02:01 -!- JustBerry [~~chatzill@unaffiliated/justberry] has quit [Ping timeout: 256 seconds]
02:02 < PrideDay> why should i go there
02:02 -!- AzaToth [~azatoth@wikipedia/AzaToth] has quit [Remote host closed the connection]
02:02 < IDoH> PrideDay: To talk about your block.
02:02 < GorillaWarfare> PrideDay: Because that is where we discuss blocks, not here.
02:02 < PrideDay> so others cant see what you say and you can make more fun im sure
02:03 < IDoH> PrideDay: You can keep this chatroom open, too, I think.
02:03 < GorillaWarfare> There are plenty of people there that can see what you say. The difference is that they can actually change your block settings.
02:03 < mareklug> PrideDay you should go there, really. A whole new population to call homophobic big ass losers. No, really.
02:03 < GorillaWarfare> mareklug: Not helpful.
02:03 < IDoH> mareklug: Shut up.
02:03 < mareklug> GorillaWarfare cannot assume good faith anymore. the person is obviously touched with querulancy of the worst kind.
02:04 < GorillaWarfare> mareklug: And taunting xyr helps... how?
02:04 < PBASH607> mareklug, you are on a thin red line
02:04 < Shirik> mareklug, this really isn't helping
02:04 < IDoH> mareklug: You're not helping at all.
02:04 -!- FastLizard4|zZzZ is now known as FastLizard4
02:04 < IShadowed> mareklug sucks
02:04 < GorillaWarfare> Lol, well now that _four_ of us have made that clear
02:04 * IShadowed circlejerks
02:04 < GorillaWarfare> Five..
02:04 < PBASH607> first you be rude to me earlier today and now this
02:05 < PBASH607> before you call me a "laughing stock" look at yourself
02:05 < Shirik> ok
02:05 < GorillaWarfare> PBASH607: Hey, you calm down too.
02:05 < Shirik> let's make this easy
02:05 < mareklug> sigh. permit me to just leave. Clearly I need to practice my homophobia in more welcome climes. Kisses!
02:05 -!- mareklug [~mareklug@wikipedia/mareklug] has quit [Quit: mareklug]
02:05 < Shirik> the next person to make a personal attack is getting a +q
02:05 < PBASH607> quiet you mean?
02:05 < Shirik> yes
02:06 < IShadowed> Shirik fucks men
02:06 < Prodego> hey GorillaWarfare, what's the name of that restaurant?
02:06 < PBASH607> IShadowed...
02:06 < GorillaWarfare> PrideDay: Which?
02:07 < GorillaWarfare> Er, sorry, *Prodego
02:07 < Prodego> "with all the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?"
02:07 < IShadowed> um excuse me
02:07 < Shirik> I feel like an inside joke is going right over my head
02:07 < IShadowed> where is my +q
02:07 < GorillaWarfare> Prodego: You... may be confusing me with someone else
02:07 < Prodego> Shirik / GorillaWarfare: ugh, you guys
02:07 < GorillaWarfare> I'm so lost
02:07 < Shirik> me too

[snip...]

02:15 < Prodego> there was a bug at the time
02:15 < Shirik> oh
02:15 < Prodego> preventing you from unblocking yourself
02:15 -!- wctaiwan [~wctaiwan@wikipedia/wctaiwan] has joined #wikipedia-en
02:15 < Shirik> tbh I kinda wish that's how it worked normally
02:15 < IDoH> Prodego: Were you trying to fix that bug?
02:15 < GorillaWarfare> 18:35, June 13, 2011 GorillaWarfare (talk | contribs | block) blocked GorillaWarfare (talk | contribs) (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of 1 week (Abusing multiple accounts)
02:15 < Shirik> It would be annoying for mistakes, but it would make emergencies a little easier to deal with
02:15 < GorillaWarfare> :<
02:16 < Steven_Zhang> lol GorillaWarfare
02:16 < JustinBieber> ._.
02:16 < Steven_Zhang> something you want to tell us? :P
02:16 < GorillaWarfare> I've been not-so-secretly socking for two years now? :P
02:16 -!- JustinBieber [kvirc@unaffiliated/bradford] has left #wikipedia-en ["Porque dicen que el Valiente vive hasta el cobarde quiere!!! ;)"]
02:17 < wctaiwan> Ironholds: that's better than one of my friends who names his variables "xd", "xdd", "xddd", "xdddd", etc. But still bad. :)
02:17 < Ironholds> wctaiwan: blog? ;p
02:17 < Ironholds> GorillaWarfare: I've been socking for 2 years
02:17 < GorillaWarfare> Lol what was that quit message
02:17 < wctaiwan> yeah
02:17 < Ironholds> I'm secretly both Kiefer Wolfowitz AND ParrotOfDoom
02:17 < wctaiwan> gasp.
02:17 < Ironholds> wctaiwan: shut it, Alternate Account #3
02:17 < GorillaWarfare> :O
02:18 * wctaiwan scuttles off
02:18 < Ironholds> GorillaWarfare: it makes perfect sense!
02:18 < Ironholds> how else would he know everything I say on IRC? ;p
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Triptych » Mon Jul 01, 2013 11:53 am

Chatson de Channel wrote:Hey guys! Thanks for letting me in. I'm here to bring you a regular dose of teh freshest IRC dramaz and bullshit. Remember, information wants to be free! :lol:
#wikipedia-en on 30 June wrote:
Nice. I didn't go over this one much, but I saw the log clip you posted in the Russavia thread in which TParis and Ironholds and others chatted it up, sought each other's support at Wikipedia administrative forums, passed snickering judgment on Russavia and others, enjoyed all the blocking action generally, and totally revealed that their participation at Wikipedia is not to build the project as say, a botanist improves the article on Katsura trees, but rather an extension of their online social activity. It'd be interesting to know if AGK, who actually did the hands-on in blocking Russavia on a non-policy basis, frequents the channel.

I hope you do more of the same Chatson de Channel. If they tighten up access to the channel or start moving these conversations to private IRC, it's another indication of the regularity of secretive and transparency-avoiding behavior by Wikipedia's administrators.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Tarc » Mon Jul 01, 2013 2:08 pm

I'm all for IRC exposure, I log stuff form time to time myself and post it here, but one's the point of this one? This "PrideDay" is just a run-of-the-mill asshole who thinks edits like this are perfectly acceptable.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Vigilant » Mon Jul 01, 2013 2:15 pm

Perhaps you could bold the important parts and/or give a tl;dr summary?
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Zoloft » Mon Jul 01, 2013 4:23 pm

Feel free to use the
tag at the top and bottom, (just the logs themselves) so as to collapse the huge log and allow those who want to read the ability to 'show' the log and read it. helps with loading times.

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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Chatson de Channel » Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:26 pm

Triptych wrote:I hope you do more of the same Chatson de Channel.
Thanks buddy, I plan to! And you can call me Chats ;)
Tarc wrote: I'm all for IRC exposure, I log stuff form time to time myself and post it here, but one's the point of this one?
I'm just gonna share the occasional moment shedding light on how people operate over there. Not gonna editorialize or take sides. Might be tasteless comments behind editors' backs, canvassing or how they handle people with complaints. Don't plan to do it too often and overwhelm your good forum here but will share fairly regularly and try to post to relevant threads if I can.

I'm also happy to republish stuff sent to me if anyone wants to share logs without jeopardizing their good name on IRC. :evilgrin:
Zoloft wrote: Feel free to use the
tag at the top and bottom, (just the logs themselves) so as to collapse the huge log and allow those who want to read the ability to 'show' the log and read it. helps with loading times.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Chatson de Channel » Wed Jul 03, 2013 6:12 pm

#wikipedia-en on 2 July wrote: 16:54 < TeeTylerToe> there are 218 users in this room
16:55 < wctaiwan> one or more are also logging and putting the logs online
16:55 < wctaiwan> just sayin'.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Tarc » Wed Jul 03, 2013 6:46 pm

Chatson de Channel wrote:
#wikipedia-en on 2 July wrote: 16:54 < TeeTylerToe> there are 218 users in this room
16:55 < wctaiwan> one or more are also logging and putting the logs online
16:55 < wctaiwan> just sayin'.
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They have never located my logger either, and it sits there day in and day out, though there's rarely much interesting anymore. The point was to deny russavia and crew a public ranting spot, one less outlet for their lunacy.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by EricBarbour » Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:31 pm

Zoloft wrote:Feel free to use the
tag at the top and bottom, (just the logs themselves) so as to collapse the huge log and allow those who want to read the ability to 'show' the log and read it. helps with loading times.
I'll collapse the OP log.

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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by mac » Wed Jul 03, 2013 11:23 pm

EricBarbour wrote: Yes, friend Chatson, we encourage you to post juicy logs. We are raptly attentive.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Anroth » Wed Jul 03, 2013 11:34 pm

Zoloft wrote:Feel free to use the
tag at the top and bottom, (just the logs themselves) so as to collapse the huge log and allow those who want to read the ability to 'show' the log and read it. helps with loading times.

Thanks!
Question! Usually show/hide (also known as 'spoiler' tags on other forums) operate by hiding whats behind it. They dont actually prevent it loading in the browser. They all still load, you just cant see it until you click the show/unhide. Have you altered the standard coding in some way so that it only loads it when its unhidden? And if yes, care to share :D

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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Zoloft » Thu Jul 04, 2013 12:35 am

Anroth wrote:
Zoloft wrote:Feel free to use the
tag at the top and bottom, (just the logs themselves) so as to collapse the huge log and allow those who want to read the ability to 'show' the log and read it. helps with loading times.

Thanks!
Question! Usually show/hide (also known as 'spoiler' tags on other forums) operate by hiding whats behind it. They dont actually prevent it loading in the browser. They all still load, you just cant see it until you click the show/unhide. Have you altered the standard coding in some way so that it only loads it when its unhidden? And if yes, care to share :D
The content still loads, but natheless is still faster because of not being in the forum interface. I've tested load times both ways. It's not a real fancy piece of code, but I'll just PM you so we won't derail the discussion.

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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by tarantino » Thu Jul 04, 2013 5:20 pm

Chatson de Channel wrote:Hey guys! Thanks for letting me in. I'm here to bring you a regular dose of teh freshest IRC dramaz and bullshit. Remember, information wants to be free! :lol:
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Chatson de Channel » Thu Jul 04, 2013 6:14 pm

tarantino wrote: Are you the owner of Wikipedialogs.com?
Wow... never heard of those guys. Guess great minds do think alike... huh.
Wikipedialogs.com wrote:In addition, other people have taken notice of the abuses that take place on Wikipedia’s IRC channels, and have published logs or excerpts of logs on their own accord. We at Wikipedialogs.com wish them well.
Same to you dudes! :wave: I won't post entire logfiles, so as to help me stay under the wiki-radar (beep... beep... beep...!), good luck with your system.

Do ya have a source for any of this though? :evilgrin:
#wikipedia-en-admins on 26 June wrote: 01:12 < TParis> Ironholds: You silly guy
01:12 < TParis> You gotta revdel the edit in the middle too: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... =561596433
01:12 < TParis> *shakes head* Can't ever give you OS tools...
01:15 < Ironholds> TParis: oh, sod off. Kiefer needs his rubdown.
01:15 < TParis> Well, you grab the oil, I'll meet you there.
01:17 < Ironholds> only if I'm allowed to bring a lighter.
That channel is actually real boring now to be honest, they are behaving themselves, wish I coulda had a source in there in 2006 when the serious dirty deeds were going down.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Vigilant » Thu Jul 04, 2013 6:18 pm

A wmf employee joking about burning a wp editor to death in a public channel? !?!

What the fuck?
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Kiefer.Wolfowitz » Thu Jul 04, 2013 11:56 pm

Vigilant wrote:A wmf employee joking about burning a wp editor to death in a public channel? !?!

What the fuck?
Of course, Bishonen (T-C-L) and Demiurge1000 (T-C-L) were more concerned that a new account raised this concern on Newyorkbrad (T-C-L)'s page.

KWW (T-C-L) blocked me for three months after I stated the obvious
Ironholds is a cowardly little retard who is welcome to pick up his teeth with broken fingers whenever he visits Sweden.
Demiwit, go fuck yourself.

with the edit summary "Ironholds is a cowardly little retard who is welcome to pick up his teeth with broken fingers whenever he visits Sweden. Demtwat remains a piece of shit."

Nick removed my comment.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Vigilant » Fri Jul 05, 2013 12:22 am

Kiefer.Wolfowitz wrote:
Vigilant wrote:A wmf employee joking about burning a wp editor to death in a public channel? !?!

What the fuck?
Of course, Bishonen (T-C-L) and Demiurge1000 (T-C-L) were more concerned that a new account raised this concern on Newyorkbrad (T-C-L)'s page.

KWW (T-C-L) blocked me for three months after I stated the obvious
Ironholds is a cowardly little retard who is welcome to pick up his teeth with broken fingers whenever he visits Sweden.
Demiwit, go fuck yourself.

with the edit summary "Ironholds is a cowardly little retard who is welcome to pick up his teeth with broken fingers whenever he visits Sweden. Demtwat remains a piece of shit."

Nick removed my comment.
You'll notice that neither of them have taken Ironholds/OKeyes to task over this.
Any bog standard editor would have been site banned already.

You WP guys are such hypocrites.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Kiefer.Wolfowitz » Fri Jul 05, 2013 12:31 am

Vigilant wrote:
Kiefer.Wolfowitz wrote:
Vigilant wrote:A wmf employee joking about burning a wp editor to death in a public channel? !?!

What the fuck?
Of course, Bishonen (T-C-L) and Demiurge1000 (T-C-L) were more concerned that a new account raised this concern on Newyorkbrad (T-C-L)'s page.

KWW (T-C-L) blocked me for three months after I stated the obvious
Ironholds is a cowardly little retard who is welcome to pick up his teeth with broken fingers whenever he visits Sweden.
Demiwit, go fuck yourself.

with the edit summary "Ironholds is a cowardly little retard who is welcome to pick up his teeth with broken fingers whenever he visits Sweden. Demtwat remains a piece of shit."

Nick removed my comment.
You'll notice that neither of them have taken Ironholds/OKeyes to task over this.
Any bog standard editor would have been site banned already.

You WP guys are such hypocrites.
I did apologize to my friends with an extra chromosome about the "retard" remark, on my talk page. Perhaps "cretin" would have been more apt.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Vigilant » Fri Jul 05, 2013 12:40 am

Kiefer.Wolfowitz wrote:
Vigilant wrote:
Kiefer.Wolfowitz wrote:
Vigilant wrote:A wmf employee joking about burning a wp editor to death in a public channel? !?!

What the fuck?
Of course, Bishonen (T-C-L) and Demiurge1000 (T-C-L) were more concerned that a new account raised this concern on Newyorkbrad (T-C-L)'s page.

KWW (T-C-L) blocked me for three months after I stated the obvious
Ironholds is a cowardly little retard who is welcome to pick up his teeth with broken fingers whenever he visits Sweden.
Demiwit, go fuck yourself.

with the edit summary "Ironholds is a cowardly little retard who is welcome to pick up his teeth with broken fingers whenever he visits Sweden. Demtwat remains a piece of shit."

Nick removed my comment.
You'll notice that neither of them have taken Ironholds/OKeyes to task over this.
Any bog standard editor would have been site banned already.

You WP guys are such hypocrites.
I did apologize to my friends with an extra chromosome about the "retard" remark, on my talk page. Perhaps "cretin" would have been more apt.
"Felcher" would suffice.
"Punk" works as well.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Wer900 » Fri Jul 05, 2013 12:42 am

Kiefer.Wolfowitz wrote:
Vigilant wrote:
Kiefer.Wolfowitz wrote:
Vigilant wrote:A wmf employee joking about burning a wp editor to death in a public channel? !?!

What the fuck?
Of course, Bishonen (T-C-L) and Demiurge1000 (T-C-L) were more concerned that a new account raised this concern on Newyorkbrad (T-C-L)'s page.

KWW (T-C-L) blocked me for three months after I stated the obvious
Ironholds is a cowardly little retard who is welcome to pick up his teeth with broken fingers whenever he visits Sweden.
Demiwit, go fuck yourself.

with the edit summary "Ironholds is a cowardly little retard who is welcome to pick up his teeth with broken fingers whenever he visits Sweden. Demtwat remains a piece of shit."

Nick removed my comment.
You'll notice that neither of them have taken Ironholds/OKeyes to task over this.
Any bog standard editor would have been site banned already.

You WP guys are such hypocrites.
I did apologize to my friends with an extra chromosome about the "retard" remark, on my talk page. Perhaps "cretin" would have been more apt.
Well, I guess I was right on cue with this one: User:Wer900/There is a cabal (T-H-L); Beeblebrox/fuck off (T-C-L) is also telling, and more proof of my essay.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Jaranda » Fri Jul 05, 2013 3:17 am

Like I said before, #wikipedia-en is utter off-topic nonsense 99.9% of the time and logged by probably multiple users (5+ is my guess), nothing new here. Everything that would be consider "juicy" happens outside in private, and if you are stupid enough to stay at a channel with the same name for 24 hours consecutively, it becomes rather obvious for the channel operators after a while that you are logging and you would be kicked banned from Wikipedia related IRC.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by EricBarbour » Fri Jul 05, 2013 3:36 am

Damn right. The real nastiness happens on #wikipedia-en.admins.
Epic, unbelievably stupid battles happen there, as with any noticeboard. Used to be a lot of Giano and Malleus abuse.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/wiki ... /User_list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... in_channel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... s%27_Abuse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... ration/IRC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... C_channels

And that's not all, folks!
Other "secret" English Wikipedia IRC channels include:

#wikimedia-checkuser
#wikipedia-en-checkuser-clerks
#wikipedia-mediation
#wikipedia-en-unblock
#wikipedia-en-accounts
#wikipedia-medcab
#countervandalism, used by the highly secretive "Countervandalism Unit". They also have a private wiki.
#wikimedia-otrs-watch

Plus, nutcases open private channels routinely to discuss harassing/blocking someone they don't like. No one on WP will ever discuss any of that.

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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Triptych » Fri Jul 05, 2013 8:27 am

EricBarbour wrote:Damn right. The real nastiness happens on #wikipedia-en.admins.
Epic, unbelievably stupid battles happen there, as with any noticeboard. Used to be a lot of Giano and Malleus abuse.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/wiki ... /User_list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... in_channel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... s%27_Abuse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... ration/IRC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... C_channels

And that's not all, folks!
Other "secret" English Wikipedia IRC channels include:

#wikimedia-checkuser
#wikipedia-en-checkuser-clerks
#wikipedia-mediation
#wikipedia-en-unblock
#wikipedia-en-accounts
#wikipedia-medcab
#countervandalism, used by the highly secretive "Countervandalism Unit". They also have a private wiki.
#wikimedia-otrs-watch

Plus, nutcases open private channels routinely to discuss harassing/blocking someone they don't like. No one on WP will ever discuss any of that.
"#Wikipedia-en-help, #wikipedia-en-afc, and #wikipedia-en-spi, among other channels" are frequented by arb Timotheus Canens. Ultraexactzz is on IRC too, though he says not exactly where.

Kiefer has a right to be aggravated by Ironholds' and Tparis' comments about him, not only for their content but the mere fact that these members of Wikipedia's prestigious administrative corps. hang out on IRC snickering about and plotting against editors. Newyorkbrad says he'll have a look at things when he wakes up. Among his options should be desysoping Ironholds and Tparis. An unthinkable move previously, but it may well be time to start changing the rules of the game.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by lilburne » Fri Jul 05, 2013 11:29 am

Triptych wrote:Rip Van Winkle says he'll have a look at things when he wakes up.
Fixed that for you.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by thekohser » Fri Jul 05, 2013 11:34 am

Vigilant wrote:A wmf employee joking about burning a wp editor to death in a public channel? !?!

What the fuck?
And we're "the boxcutter site"?
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Unread post by lilburne » Fri Jul 05, 2013 11:39 am

thekohser wrote:
Vigilant wrote:A wmf employee joking about burning a wp editor to death in a public channel? !?!

What the fuck?
And we're "the boxcutter site"?
But that sort of behaviour is to be expected of those religiously intolerant to heresy.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by HRIP7 » Fri Jul 05, 2013 12:28 pm

thekohser wrote:
Vigilant wrote:A wmf employee joking about burning a wp editor to death in a public channel? !?!

What the fuck?
And we're "the boxcutter site"?
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Tippi Hadron » Fri Jul 05, 2013 12:47 pm

lilburne wrote:
thekohser wrote:
Vigilant wrote:A wmf employee joking about burning a wp editor to death in a public channel? !?!

What the fuck?
And we're "the boxcutter site"?
But that sort of behaviour is to be expected of those religiously intolerant to heresy.
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We have a banned user currently down as attending. Are banned users typically welcome at these events? --Tango (talk) 15:37, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
Probably just trolling, but if not we can probably throw him in front of a bus or something. Ironholds (talk) 15:46, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
If he's not welcome that should be made clear to him beforehand. It's hardly fair to throw him in front of a bus without warning! --Tango (talk) 15:49, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
This is warning :P. Seriously though, I don't see any reason why a banned user can't turn up. If they cause a scene they can get turfed out, simple as. Ironholds (talk) 16:44, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
We could do worse than invite him over and present him with a shiny new box cutter. :D

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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Kiefer.Wolfowitz » Fri Jul 05, 2013 2:06 pm

Fram (T-C-L) unblocked me:
I have unblocked.

Yes, Kiefer Wolfowitz (T-C-L)'s comment was unacceptable on its own, and repetition of this or similar comments, even when provoked, should result in new blocks.

But considering the circumstances, with a functionary making an extremely inappropriate "joke" (if one can call it that) on a channel where Kiefer Wolfowitz has no means to respond, a "tit-for-tat" response, while very ill-considered, is also understandable. The fact that thus far, Kiefer Wolfowitz has received a 3-month block while User:Ironholds (T-C-L) hasn't even received a warning (even if his remark was technically, wiki-lawyerishly off-wiki, it is still a location where he acts in function, not some off-wiki personal discussion), is a guarantee that this block will not have the desired effect at all, and will only increase the feelings of unequal treatment of admins (or other functionaries) vs. non-admins.

Kiefer Wolfowitz, please, if something like this happens again, don't lash out, just go to some noticeboard and make a calm and civil complaint there. That will at least have a chance that the result will be the reverse of what happened now. Fram (T-C-L) 2:59 pm, Today (UTC+2)
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Unread post by Hex » Fri Jul 05, 2013 3:03 pm

EricBarbour wrote:Damn right. The real nastiness happens on #wikipedia-en.admins.
Really sorry to disappoint, Eric, but you couldn't be more wrong. I've been in there for a while. It's not only very quiet, but for the greatest part also on-topic. I saw the thing that "Chatson" posted when it went past last week, and occasional naff comments like that really are about as bad as it gets. If he's looking to stir up drama it's going to be a stretch.

You may be thinking of what the place was like around 2007 or so. I remember looking in, finding it far too busy and not being bothered to stay.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Randy from Boise » Fri Jul 05, 2013 3:48 pm

I've said it before and I'll say it again, that Wikipedia's administrative culture is in no way as abusive as it was five or more years ago. Some of the bad actors have been tossed, more have left, and others have grown up from teenagers into twenty-somethings with more sense.

No matter what one may think of Wikipedia's RFA process (and it is akin to running a gauntlet of paddle-bearing frat boys buck naked with one's pants around one's ankles) it has over time provided a high enough bar to serve as a barrier to many interested in life as a game-playing weasel with buttons. There is scrutiny and the scrutiny does work.

This is not to say that many administrators are not part of a clique. Yes, Virginia, there is a cabal. But it is a pale shadow today of what it was in the middle years of the '00s, by all accounts.

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Unread post by Peter Damian » Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:33 pm

Randy from Boise wrote:I've said it before and I'll say it again, that Wikipedia's administrative culture is in no way as abusive as it was five or more years ago.
And I have said it before, and will say it again, that it is far more abusive today. Even five years ago the idea of deleting good articles simply because written by a 'banned user' would have been unthinkable then. There were a reasonable number of people who actually believed in creating content and who had more power than the philistines. Now the philistines are running the show.

Now, the philistines are generally more rule-abiding as a group. That's the hallmark of a good philistine. And in the sense that they do follow the rules, they are less abusive. The problem is the rules they follow are very stupid ones (e.g. about deleting articles by banned users). So in that sense, the culture is more abusive.

So you are wrong.
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Unread post by Tarc » Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:42 pm

Peter Damian wrote:
Randy from Boise wrote:I've said it before and I'll say it again, that Wikipedia's administrative culture is in no way as abusive as it was five or more years ago.
And I have said it before, and will say it again, that it is far more abusive today.
This stems from your recent, personal butthurt at their hands, not on anything reliable or any sort of objective analysis. The grand cabals, the Slimvirgn's, Jayjg's are shades of their former power-wielding selves. No one begs and scrapes before Jimbo to curry favor...quite the opposite really, people go out of their way to score Jimbo-hating points these days.

There are individual admins that are problematic at times, just as there are individual editors that are the same. Nothing more.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Wer900 » Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:44 pm

Tarc wrote:
Peter Damian wrote:
Randy from Boise wrote:I've said it before and I'll say it again, that Wikipedia's administrative culture is in no way as abusive as it was five or more years ago.
And I have said it before, and will say it again, that it is far more abusive today.
This stems from your recent, personal butthurt at their hands, not on anything reliable or any sort of objective analysis. The grand cabals, the Slimvirgn's, Jayjg's are shades of their former power-wielding selves. No one begs and scrapes before Jimbo to curry favor...quite the opposite really, people go out of their way to score Jimbo-hating points these days.

There are individual admins that are problematic at times, just as there are individual editors that are the same. Nothing more.
Small cabals are more common nowadays, and are in many ways more dangerous than the massive ones of a few years ago.
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Unread post by Peter Damian » Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:50 pm

Tarc wrote:
Peter Damian wrote:
Randy from Boise wrote:I've said it before and I'll say it again, that Wikipedia's administrative culture is in no way as abusive as it was five or more years ago.
And I have said it before, and will say it again, that it is far more abusive today.
This stems from your recent, personal butthurt at their hands, not on anything reliable or any sort of objective analysis. The grand cabals, the Slimvirgn's, Jayjg's are shades of their former power-wielding selves.
Yes, as I said. The old cabals at least had some grasp of building a comprehensive reference work. The current lot are just philistines. [Tarc - a 'Philistine' is an uncouth person who is hostile to art, culture, and the intellectual virtues].
You know what the big problem here is? It's very simple: the arrogance of the self-styled "content creators", who think that they are better than everyone else and shouldn't be forced to follow the rules. There is no reason why admins would randomly decide to make trouble for the people who write large amounts of content. Anyone who propagates that theory is either kidding themselves or simply a bald-faced liar. Rather, these "content-creating" people (who don't seem to believe that anyone else has ever written an article) are extremely arrogant, largely because they have so many friends who pat them on the back and tell them how wonderful they. This gives them a sense of entitlement, which causes problems. When the admins are forced to deal with these problems, the troublemakers and their trouble-making friends resort to playing the "I create more content than you do so, so I can do whatever I want and you don't count for anything" game. That is the problem. The most embarrassing aspect of this sorry reality is that these people are usually the ones seen accusing other people of being childish. AutomaticStrikeout ? 15:15, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Tarc » Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:56 pm

Peter Damian wrote:Yes, as I said. The old cabals at least had some grasp of building a comprehensive reference work. The current lot are just philistines.
A bunch of toothless dick mittens are a lot better to have around than organized and experienced game-players. Randy's point here is the correct one.
[Tarc - a 'Philistine' is an uncouth person who is hostile to art, culture, and the intellectual virtues].
Why, thanks, Professor! I'll have to pass on the usual oral remuneration that you're probably used to from the students, though. [Peter - 'remuneration' means payment for services rendered].
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Triptych » Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:58 pm

Kiefer.Wolfowitz wrote:Fram unblocked me.
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Kiefer.Wolfowitz wrote:Fram unblocked me.
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If Fram joins, I have their avatar all ready.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Wer900 » Fri Jul 05, 2013 8:49 pm

Zoloft wrote:
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Kiefer.Wolfowitz wrote:Fram unblocked me.
Tron's catchphrase is "I fight for the users."
If Fram joins, I have their avatar all ready.
Fram is very much an abusive insider.
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by HRIP7 » Fri Jul 05, 2013 8:56 pm

Wer900 wrote:
Zoloft wrote:
Triptych wrote:
Kiefer.Wolfowitz wrote:Fram unblocked me.
Tron's catchphrase is "I fight for the users."
If Fram joins, I have their avatar all ready.
Fram is very much an abusive insider.
At the risk of spouting a platitude – while it's easy to slip into black-and-white thinking (we do it more often here than I would like), few if any people at Wikipedia are really all good or all bad. It's all shades of grey. Same applies to us here, of course.

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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Kiefer.Wolfowitz » Fri Jul 05, 2013 9:15 pm

Wer900 wrote:
Zoloft wrote:
Triptych wrote:
Kiefer.Wolfowitz wrote:Fram unblocked me.
Tron's catchphrase is "I fight for the users."
If Fram joins, I have their avatar all ready.
Fram is very much an abusive insider.
I wrote before that either I had grossly underestimated Fram or that he had astonishing powers of reflecting on criticism (and lso earning something). Today's action confirms that judgment.

Randy from Boise has made similar assessments, at least recognizing that Fram's actions are usually based on principle, which he sometimes applies rather aggressively.

Unlike, e.g. Kww, Fram immediately presented his block of Eric for review at AN, and he does not seem defensive about it. (I have questioned the length.)
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Hex » Fri Jul 05, 2013 10:32 pm

Tarc wrote:The grand cabals, the Slimvirgn's, Jayjg's are shades of their former power-wielding selves.
For a little of the flavor of the old #en-wikipedia-admins, have a look at the history of Wikipedia talk:IRC channels/wikipedia-en-admins (T-H-L) and its associated MfDs; and the talk page for the channel guidelines on Meta. Crappy fighting all the way down. It's unrecognizable as what it is today.

(Also: maybe a thread split for the discussion of admins and cabals and whatnot in general?)
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Randy from Boise » Fri Jul 05, 2013 10:36 pm

Kiefer.Wolfowitz wrote:
Wer900 wrote:
Zoloft wrote:
Triptych wrote:
Kiefer.Wolfowitz wrote:Fram unblocked me.
Tron's catchphrase is "I fight for the users."
If Fram joins, I have their avatar all ready.
Fram is very much an abusive insider.
I wrote before that either I had grossly underestimated Fram or that he had astonishing powers of reflecting on criticism (and lso earning something). Today's action confirms that judgment.

Randy from Boise has made similar assessments, at least recognizing that Fram's actions are usually based on principle, which he sometimes applies rather aggressively.

Unlike, e.g. Kww, Fram immediately presented his block of Eric for review at AN, and he does not seem defensive about it. (I have questioned the length.)
Fram has his function at WP as a rule enforcer, for sure, but I'm pretty much of the belief that he is temperamentally unsuited to having block or deletion buttons. Put simply: he's a hothead. He needs the tool box for his work at Contributor Copyright Investigations, but definitely needs to be very closely watched whenever he ventures outside that domain...

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Unread post by jd turk » Fri Jul 05, 2013 10:43 pm

Randy from Boise wrote:Fram has his function at WP as a rule enforcer, for sure, but I'm pretty much of the belief that he is temperamentally unsuited to having block or deletion buttons. Put simply: he's a hothead. He needs the tool box for his work at Contributor Copyright Investigations, but definitely needs to be very closely watched whenever he ventures outside that domain...
Which is another problem. Everyone has their own skills, but the Admin tools only come in one big box, not sold separately. You've either got them or you don't, there's no half-way probationary measures. And so all admins not only have all of the buttons, they're also judged on the use (and lack of use) of all of them.

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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by eppur si muove » Fri Jul 05, 2013 10:55 pm

Randy from Boise wrote:No matter what one may think of Wikipedia's RFA process (and it is akin to running a gauntlet of paddle-bearing frat boys buck naked with one's pants around one's ankles) it has over time provided a high enough bar to serve as a barrier to many interested in life as a game-playing weasel with buttons. There is scrutiny and the scrutiny does work.
If you're going to go for such metaphors of brutality, why not compare it to the Spartan agoge complete with how certain members are chosen for a secret police that persecutes the helots?

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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Herbert West » Fri Jul 05, 2013 11:25 pm

Jaranda wrote:Like I said before, #wikipedia-en is utter off-topic nonsense 99.9% of the time and logged by probably multiple users (5+ is my guess), nothing new here. Everything that would be consider "juicy" happens outside in private,
It's mostly off-topic, but a surprising amount of actual WP discussion can be had there. It doesn't have the juiciest chats, but there is more than enough to make fools of those willing to do so. 5+ is definitely low balling.
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Jaranda wrote:Like I said before, #wikipedia-en is utter off-topic nonsense 99.9% of the time and logged by probably multiple users (5+ is my guess), nothing new here. Everything that would be consider "juicy" happens outside in private,
It's mostly off-topic, but a surprising amount of actual WP discussion can be had there. It doesn't have the juiciest chats, but there is more than enough to make fools of those willing to do so. 5+ is definitely low balling.
Jaranda wrote:and if you are stupid enough to stay at a channel with the same name for 24 hours consecutively, it becomes rather obvious for the channel operators after a while that you are logging and you would be kicked banned from Wikipedia related IRC.
You might be surprised. :B'
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Re: IRC Highlights

Unread post by Herbert West » Sat Jul 06, 2013 6:25 am

Vigilant wrote:I just wanted to congratulate you on your avatar!
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Haha, thanks.
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Unread post by Midsize Jake » Sat Jul 06, 2013 6:45 am

Do your views concerning Wikipedia, which I suspect have been widely ridiculed by the admins and your fellow-users, hinge on the essentially mechanistic nature of wiki-based life, and concern means for operating the organic machinery of wiki-kind by calculated chemical action after the failure of natural processes?


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Unread post by Peter Damian » Sat Jul 06, 2013 7:53 am

What is Brad saying here?
the channel is close enough to this project that standards of decorum should be observed. That IRC logs do come to light sometimes, while contrary to Freenode and channel policies, also speaks in favor of phrasing one's remarks bearing in mind that one is speaking in at least a semi-public forum rather than a private conversation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... d_response
He's saying remarks like these are objectionable because they might be make public. He doesn't say they are objectionable because they are objectionable.

Keyes also comments:
I made a rather morbid and snarky joke in a private channel on IRC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?tit ... _Ironholds
So it's important to say it's a private channel.
A second mistake was arguably being dumb enough to assume that a prohibition on public logging was something people with the trust of the community would follow.
So what's wrong is not saying objectionable stuff like this, but rather 'freeing' the information into full public view? Why does this organisation vigorously promote stuff like Wikileaks and free culture and 'information must be free', while at the same time having all this secret stuff?
the argument of "you're a WMF employee, you should know better" is something I find troubling. Staffers should certainly be held to standards of decorum, in their role as staff and bystaff. The joke was made in my personal capacity (I do not maintain membership of that channel in my role as a staffer). Were it made in my professional capacity, that would be a matter for HR, not for the arbitration committee, and it seems an inappropriate thing for an arbitrator to be factoring in.
In an internet organisation, how do you know when a remark is made in a professional capacity, and when not? In any case, most proper organisations have a rule that you should avoid speaking about any subject that relates to its business, at any time.

[edit] Oh yes and see this thread viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2572
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