Wikipediocracy

Smiley wrote:Special mention and commiserations to Icewhiz (T-C-L)

Alas, another unsuccessful bid for the Guinness World Record for Parentheses (within Parentheses (within Parentheses (within Parentheses))) in a Single Sentence.

You, my friend, obviously have never read my friend Rev. Nørb, of Maximum Rocknroll fame...

RfB

Ooh! My turn!

Wil Sinclair has utterly turned his life around and is running marathons and ironman competitions.
He's lost a ton of weight, seems much healthier mentally and just appears to be having a great time and living a productive life.

Vigilant wrote:Ooh! My turn!

Wil Sinclair has utterly turned his life around and is running marathons and ironman competitions.
He's lost a ton of weight, seems much healthier mentally and just appears to be having a great time and living a productive life.

I saw that! I didn't want to bring it up or link to his instagram out of the blue, though. He's a full time employee of Burning Man now BTW.

CrowsNest: every post he has made on this forum for the last year and more has been amusing and insightful.

Midnightblueowl (T-C-L) has written some truly fantastic articles about the British far-right, such as National Front (UK) (T-H-L), English Defence League (T-H-L), and the British National Party (T-H-L). I admire her work in general.

Katie wrote:Midnightblueowl (T-C-L) has written some truly fantastic articles about the British far-right, such as National Front (UK) (T-H-L), English Defence League (T-H-L), and the British National Party (T-H-L). I admire her work in general.

Agreed. I keep an eye on a number of far-right UK articles (for obvious reasons) and they are pretty much always spot on with both their editing and reasoning on talk pages.

Bloodofox (T-C-L) has a great userpage and does wonderful edits in articles relating to paganism. Cyphoidbomb (T-C-L) is fantastically good at reducing the amount of cruft that plagues television articles, such as TV shows from India (which has a good post from Cyphoidbomb about the bad practices that goes on with some editors in that field: linkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cyph ... _Ignorance[/link]) or children's shows, which attract a great amount of editors adding useless detail to articles, presumably children or sometimes developmentally delayed teens/adults.

While I've tussled with KillerChihuahua (T-C-L), I am happy to see that she's gotten through her health issues and has come back to tussle some more.

Glad you made it, KC.

Lila Tretikov

https://ieee-vics.org/speakers/lila-tretikov/

Lila Tretikov is the Corporate Vice President of Customer & Product of the AI Perception and Mixed Reality division at Microsoft

Microsoft is the big leagues.
And the WMF has who at the VP Eng position??

Sort of blows the old theory that having a WMF stint on the resume is instant napalm career death, does it not?

RfB

Vigilant wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:45 pm

EricBarbour wrote:You won't like it, but I would have to nominate Malleus and Giano as two of the best Wikipedia content writers of all time.
The fact that they are constantly harassed for "incivility" takes nothing away from the fact that they're doing far more
for an "encyclopedia" than virtually any of their attackers.

(I also think they're both cranks, but hey, whatever......)

+100.
Admins don't like frank discussions with people who turn out to be much smarter than they are.

Bumped in the name of Peace, Love, and Understanding...

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EricBarbour wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 14, 2012 8:22 pm

There's a long list of good people still writing decent content for Wikipedia, many of them every day. This forum and WR NEVER talks about those folks, so they end up being invisible.
It's really sad that the content writers are quitting while the patrollers and mad gnomes are taking over.

Entertainment!

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Randy from Boise wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 11, 2020 12:42 pm

Vigilant wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 11, 2020 6:04 am

Lila Tretikov

https://ieee-vics.org/speakers/lila-tretikov/

Lila Tretikov is the Corporate Vice President of Customer & Product of the AI Perception and Mixed Reality division at Microsoft

Microsoft is the big leagues.
And the WMF has who at the VP Eng position??

Sort of blows the old theory that having a WMF stint on the resume is instant napalm career death, does it not?

RfB

Exception_that_proves_the_rule (T-H-L)

And, good lord, is that a terrible article.

Serial Number 54129 (T-C-L)