Page 1 of 1
Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 4:05 am
by Zoloft
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."
"Wikipediocracy allows users unhappy with Wikipedia to openly
talk bad about it."
"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."
Gaaaaaah!
I guess, simply put, we're bad people.
Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 4:51 am
by Versus
Started up by
Bonkers the Clown (T-C-L). No doubt he read about himself in this
link.
Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 4:56 am
by EricBarbour
Bonkers must be a consensual hallucination, who exists only to amuse/annoy us.
Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 6:38 am
by Alison
Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 7:16 am
by Alison
And it looks like Bonkers was a naughty boy and ended up
blocked indefinitely from Simple Wikipedia, shortly after he created that article;
Code: Select all
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.
Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 9:10 am
by Zoloft
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;
Code: Select all
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.
♪♫ A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants. ♫♪
Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 12:35 pm
by enwikibadscience
Lol, good job, Bonkers!
When I read it, I thought, is this for real, or is someone mocking Simply Idiotic Wikipedia? Now I know.
Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:53 pm
by Bottled_Spider
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.
diff
Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:53 pm
by Michaeldsuarez
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;
Code: Select all
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):
Code: Select all
@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!
Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2014 7:00 pm
by Poetlister
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.
Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 12:09 pm
by Michaeldsuarez
Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 12:56 pm
by Zoloft
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?
Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 3:27 pm
by Poetlister
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!
Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 5:26 pm
by Zoloft
Poetlister wrote:
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?
Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 7:28 pm
by enwikibadscience
Zoloft wrote:Poetlister wrote:
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.
Re: Simple Wikipedia's Wikipediocracy article
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2014 7:57 pm
by Zoloft
enwikibadscience wrote:Zoloft wrote:Poetlister wrote:
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.
Pretty much.
