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Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article

Unread post by Zoloft » Fri Mar 14, 2014 4:05 am

I was experimenting with the search engine DuckDuckGo - best of the rest, I feel - when I found the Simple English article on Wikipediocracy: link

"Wikipediocracy is an Internet forum in English. It was founded in May 2012. It allows any person who signs up to share things about Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation which makes them angry."

:tearinghairout:

"Wikipediocracy allows users unhappy with Wikipedia to openly talk bad about it."

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"In 2013, users of the website leaked out personal information about Qworty, a Wikipedia user, to a writer for Salon, a online newspaper. They revealed his real name, and the writer published it on Salon."

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Gaaaaaah!

I guess, simply put, we're bad people.

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Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article

Unread post by Versus » Fri Mar 14, 2014 4:51 am

Started up by Bonkers the Clown (T-C-L). No doubt he read about himself in this link.

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Unread post by EricBarbour » Fri Mar 14, 2014 4:56 am

:rotfl:

Bonkers must be a consensual hallucination, who exists only to amuse/annoy us.

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Unread post by Alison » Fri Mar 14, 2014 6:38 am

-- Allie

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Unread post by Alison » Fri Mar 14, 2014 7:16 am

And it looks like Bonkers was a naughty boy and ended up blocked indefinitely from Simple Wikipedia, shortly after he created that article;

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20:22, 24 November 2013 Chenzw (talk | changes) blocked Bonkers The Clown (talk | changes) with an expiry time of indefinite (account creation blocked, email disabled, cannot change own talk page) (Bad behaviour/harassment: Reciprocal block: Violating the "one-strike" rule / Only here to cause trouble, it seems)
Afterwards, Bonkers posted "inappropriate personal information" on his talk page, which had to be removed with RevDel. I've no idea what this is.
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Unread post by Zoloft » Fri Mar 14, 2014 9:10 am

Alison wrote:And it looks like Bonkers was a naughty boy and ended up blocked indefinitely from Simple Wikipedia, shortly after he created that article;

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20:22, 24 November 2013 Chenzw (talk | changes) blocked Bonkers The Clown (talk | changes) with an expiry time of indefinite (account creation blocked, email disabled, cannot change own talk page) (Bad behaviour/harassment: Reciprocal block: Violating the "one-strike" rule / Only here to cause trouble, it seems)
Afterwards, Bonkers posted "inappropriate personal information" on his talk page, which had to be removed with RevDel. I've no idea what this is.
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Unread post by enwikibadscience » Fri Mar 14, 2014 12:35 pm

Versus wrote:Started up by Bonkers the Clown (T-C-L). No doubt he read about himself in this link.
Lol, good job, Bonkers!

When I read it, I thought, is this for real, or is someone mocking Simply Idiotic Wikipedia? Now I know.

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Unread post by Bottled_Spider » Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:53 pm

Versus wrote:Started up by Bonkers the Clown (T-C-L). No doubt he read about himself in this link.
I was amused by the threat made against Bonkers on his talkpage late last year. The threatener could have added a touch more class, though, if he'd appended "Happy Christmas" at the end.

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Unread post by Michaeldsuarez » Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:53 pm

Alison wrote:And it looks like Bonkers was a naughty boy and ended up blocked indefinitely from Simple Wikipedia, shortly after he created that article;

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20:22, 24 November 2013 Chenzw (talk | changes) blocked Bonkers The Clown (talk | changes) with an expiry time of indefinite (account creation blocked, email disabled, cannot change own talk page) (Bad behaviour/harassment: Reciprocal block: Violating the "one-strike" rule / Only here to cause trouble, it seems)
Afterwards, Bonkers posted "inappropriate personal information" on his talk page, which had to be removed with RevDel. I've no idea what this is.
Here's one of the comments that Auntof6 tried to RevDel (Auntof6 forgot to remove the comment from the page before using RevDel):

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@User:Osiris This is a really funny block rationale. How are Arctic's actions "outing" when Chenzw already explicitly lists out his beloved alma mater and residence [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SGpedians'_notice_board here]? Not wanting myself to get blocked, I'll just have to cryptically note that I have found out who Chenzw is in real life, thanks to a fabulous Linkedin page... I didn't reveal anything personal, so please don't block me too. Cheers, [[User:Bonkers The Clown|Bonkers The Clown]] ([[User talk:Bonkers The Clown|talk]]) 02:08, 24 November 2013 (UTC)
Auntof6 apparently considers the inclusion of the enwiki link to be outing. Linking to public information located on enwiki is a crime on simplewiki!

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Unread post by Poetlister » Fri Mar 14, 2014 7:00 pm

Zoloft wrote:It allows any person who signs up to share things about Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation which makes them angry."
That could be interpreted as "which makes the Wikipedia powers that be and the WMF angry", which of course would have more than a grain of truth.
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Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article

Unread post by Zoloft » Sun Mar 16, 2014 12:56 pm

Michaeldsuarez wrote:Hi, Demiurge1000 :)
He hadn't edited on Simple since about June 2012.

Still, most of his changes seem sensible.

Wonder which one of the accounts here is him?

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Unread post by Poetlister » Sun Mar 16, 2014 3:27 pm

Michaeldsuarez wrote:Hi, Demiurge1000 :)
He makes a good point though. I am shocked - shocked - to see that Zoloft edited the article without announcing his COI. What's more, he used the Visual Editor!
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Unread post by Zoloft » Sun Mar 16, 2014 5:26 pm

Poetlister wrote:
Michaeldsuarez wrote:Hi, Demiurge1000 :)
He makes a good point though. I am shocked - shocked - to see that Zoloft edited the article without announcing his COI. What's more, he used the Visual Editor!
I'm a masochist, experimenting with that thing. VisualFlail. It provides an excuse to yell at the WMF. Besides, doesn't everyone who edits a WMF project have a COI towards us?

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Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article

Unread post by enwikibadscience » Sun Mar 16, 2014 7:28 pm

Zoloft wrote:
Poetlister wrote:
Michaeldsuarez wrote:Hi, Demiurge1000 :)
He makes a good point though. I am shocked - shocked - to see that Zoloft edited the article without announcing his COI. What's more, he used the Visual Editor!
I'm a masochist, experimenting with that thing. VisualFlail. It provides an excuse to yell at the WMF. Besides, doesn't everyone who edits a WMF project have a COI towards us?
To simplify:

I'm a bad guy who likes to get owies playing with that thing. LookieLookieOwie. It gives me a reason to scream at big guys. Also, all people who put words on computer have grudges.

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Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article

Unread post by Zoloft » Sun Mar 16, 2014 7:57 pm

enwikibadscience wrote:
Zoloft wrote:
Poetlister wrote:
Michaeldsuarez wrote:Hi, Demiurge1000 :)
He makes a good point though. I am shocked - shocked - to see that Zoloft edited the article without announcing his COI. What's more, he used the Visual Editor!
I'm a masochist, experimenting with that thing. VisualFlail. It provides an excuse to yell at the WMF. Besides, doesn't everyone who edits a WMF project have a COI towards us?
To simplify:

I'm a bad guy who likes to get owies playing with that thing. LookieLookieOwie. It gives me a reason to scream at big guys. Also, all people who put words on computer have grudges.

:blink:
Pretty much. :rotfl:

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