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- Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:09 am
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3090
Re: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
Now I'm gonna have to check what the original topic was. Something about sexism, I think? :evilgrin: "Who on WP decides what is sexist," actually. If it was just "sexism" in general, this would probably be the most active subforum on the whole website. Anyway... Mr. Troutman's block expired a few h...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Email from Jimbo Wales (and a book?)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 449
Re: email from jimbo wales (and a book?)
Dan Gardner wouldn't happen to be related to Sue Gardner, would he? Well, they're both Canadian, so... :unsure: During a quick look at Mr. Gardner's Substack I found this piece from November 2023 entitled "The History of Technology is Most Relevant," in which he "teases" what is almost certainly th...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:08 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Email from Jimbo Wales (and a book?)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 449
Re: email from jimbo wales (and a book?)
Does anyone think it's possible Jimbo would admit, in a book no less, that vandalism has long been a WP recruitment strategy? :dubious: I forget if it was me or Kelly Martin who first suggested that, way back during the ol' Wikipedia Review days, but I'm pretty sure nobody connected with Wikiland ma...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:37 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Was Maher fired?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 3898
Re: Was Maher fired?
Okay, another good post — though, admittedly, too long again — but this does tend to contradict some of your earlier statements on the subject, no? In the past you've tended to say that the WMF is not so much to blame for Wikipedia's problems, not to mention that you seemed to be firmly in the anti-...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:02 pm
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3090
Re: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
I'll throw my hat in on why Molly didn't make the block herself: sometimes that's the smart move. I'd say it's always the smart move, if you can get away with it and you're pretty sure the end result will be the one you want...? The only scenario in which it's advantageous to act unilaterally on a ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:03 am
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3090
Re: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
Looks like nobody attempted to answer this question: P.S. Hmmmm, GW has buttons. She was not an involved party... Why didn't she do a quick, quiet block on her own? Why go to AN/I at all??? Hopefully she'll drop by and answer this one herself, but if I really had to guess, I'd say it's probably beca...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:56 am
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3090
Re: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
It probably depends on your genitals I daresay, but I don't think I have ever interacted with the guy directly, so that may be unfair. Hey, I agree completely. In an ideal world, you could say that "dominance behavior" only applies to sexism when the sexist is actually in a "dominant" position, i.e...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:10 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: The rise and fall of a Wikipedia General
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1836
Re: The rise and fall of a Wikipedia General
Well that's pretty amusing if true. Shall we let them know they are potentially being impersonated in a seedy Mos Eisley cantina? We wouldn't want rumours to start spreading across the Galaxy. Rumour leads to uncertainty, uncertainty leads to doubt, doubt leads to fishcakes, and you all know what t...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:02 am
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3090
Re: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
And the women In the room share a look. If you're referring to my saying "even if it really just amounts to (or is indistinguishable from) heavy-handed dominance behavior," that probably is unclear/overstated verbiage on my part. It should probably be something like, "even if there's a risk that ce...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:06 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: The rise and fall of a Wikipedia General
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1836
Re: The rise and fall of a Wikipedia General
Who dis? New phone. I could be mistaken, but we were under the impression that Mr. Ahypori is User: Acalamari on Wikipedia (where he/she is a Bureaucrat), and that both names are Star Wars -related. However, we didn't verify this because he/she registered before we started verifying certain WP peop...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:25 am
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
- Replies: 53
- Views: 3090
Re: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
It is seemingly something Jordan Peterson has said, or as has been speculated the Maher/NPR farago, that prompted Chris to make his comment. Something in the air. It's something Peterson said on the Joe Rogan show , back in 2018, I think - "men are more interested in things, women are more interest...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 2:47 am
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: The five missing women from Time 100 (2024)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 197
Re: The five missing women from Time 100 (2024)
"Wikipedia: not writing articles about people before the secondary sources do"? I don't think Mr. Kraken is suggesting that Wikipedia should have proper articles on these folks (yet), nor am I suggesting it, though he does make a good point about the (lack of) redirects. Then again, I guess you cou...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:48 pm
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: The five missing women from Time 100 (2024)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 197
Re: The five missing women from Time 100 (2024)
Good post; we could even make it a blog entry with minimal alterations (we'd just need to expand on a few terms and conceptual references that might not be immediately apparent to non-insider/savvy readers). Of course, you might not want us to use it in such a fashion, since that level of participat...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:08 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Was Maher fired?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 3898
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:33 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: New BBCode
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2671
Re: New BBCode
Is there a two-letter prefix for commons? I didn't even think about this (it's been a while), but 【neluser="commons"】and【neluser="simple"】both work too, it doesn't have to be just two letters. (Mr. Rnu's method might be easier though, in many if not most cases.) Here's Mr. Corbett on Commons: Malle...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:03 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Was Maher fired?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 3898
Re: Was Maher fired?
Look, people are constantly making fun of What-Openness-Can-Be's level of intentionality, and how hard it is for non-living entities (like websites, for example) to live into it, and that's fine because everyone appreciates a good intentionalized laugh. And sure, it's easy to say that NPR brought th...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:39 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: New BBCode
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2671
Re: New BBCode
I have a vague memory about being delighted when I learned that someone had created a code to link to non-English wikipedias with the WPARTICLE tag, but I can't find the post... Maybe I was dreaming that ChatGPT posted a hallucination? That was me, but it was for users, not articles — the tag is【ne...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wondrous commons images
- Replies: 164
- Views: 5413
Re: Wondrous commons images
Would it surprise you to learn that it's Burberry ? I'm not so sure about "surprised".... "Shocked and horrified" seems like the more appropriate term... But check it out, it's on sale at Jomashop for less than $300 bucks! :smiling: (You can also get one on eBay for $115, but I wouldn't advise that...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:54 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Naive ideas to improve en-wp
- Replies: 160
- Views: 17618
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:46 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wondrous commons images
- Replies: 164
- Views: 5413
Re: Wondrous commons images
TIL that if you want to find hats like this online, you have to type "wide brim bucket hat" into Google Images, not "large bucket hat" or "oversized bucket hat."tarantino wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:33 pmFrom the file name and category, this is Canadian model James Lam, presumably taken by fashion photographer Greg Swales...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:28 pm
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Deathly Shallows: Wikipedia's coverage of JK Rowling
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1251
Re: Deathly Shallows: Wikipedia's coverage of JK Rowling
Newspapers are well known to have an anti-Trans bias... I know there was the big story about the New York Times having an anti-trans bias, but is it fair to generalize about this by saying it's "newspapers" and not just the NYT (and, presumably, other even more right-wing-friendly outlets)? I don't...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:30 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Was Maher fired?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 3898
Re: Was Maher fired?
Just as a quick update, yesterday Uri Berliner, the NPR reporter who wrote the essay for Bari Weiss's The Free Press site in support of Christopher Rufo's Twitter-targeting of Katherine Maher, was suspended by NPR for not having obtained authorization before having stuff published in other new outle...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 3:02 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 789
- Views: 419861
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
Well... putting aside our current problems with page-load times, I suspect it would actually be a lot harder.PirateFood wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:18 amrnu, why don't you contribute to the DYK process and step in when you see problematic hooks? It can't be harder than posting about them here.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:59 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Let's talk about LDS editors
- Replies: 257
- Views: 12586
Re: Let's talk about LDS editors
Maybe you could start a user group and become an affiliate (or whatever they call it) of the Wikimedia Foundation. Then your group could discuss what they highly prioritize and ask for grant money from the Wikimedia Foundation. You could channel your energy in that direction.... :welcome: They do u...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:00 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Let's talk about religious editors
- Replies: 31
- Views: 948
Re: Let's talk about religious editors
Religious editors, or editors that edit about a certain religion? In this context it's "religious editors who write/edit about their own religion," isn't it? :unsure: At least in the English language, "religious editors who write about other people's religions" are usually only objected-to by right...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:35 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2626
Re: Server issues
Looks fine today so far. Don't worry, I promise not to accuse you of "jinxing" us when it inevitably goes to shit again. :) Then again, I did figure something out that forces me to correct something I wrote earlier: I should mention that late last year, they "rolled out" a new CPanel wherein I can ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Was Maher fired?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 3898
Re: Was Maher fired?
WMF, doing WMF things. Fuck 'em. You first! :ermm: Right-wing "critiques" of Ms. Maher's tweets from her WMF days never mention the WMF or Wikipedia, because they're worried people might figure out that her so-called "woke tendencies" were reflective of the WMF's need to close the "gender gap" and ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:12 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Kyiv Post: Russian Billionaires Try to Hide Ties with Kremlin by Editing Wikipedia Pages
- Replies: 6
- Views: 199
Re: Kiyv Post: Russian Billionaires Try to Hide Ties with Kremlin by Editing Wikipedia Pages
Somehow, for lots of assorted reasons, Chelsea's incredibly bad 2022-23 season made Roman look even more of a nice guy than he did before, made the British government look totally incompetent, and reinforce the idea that rich Americans are stupid while rich Russians are clever. FTFY. :) On the plus...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:38 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
- Replies: 29
- Views: 960
Re: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
What is the actual data on the amount of male:female editors? How can it be certain? Everything I’ve read about this is just mere assumption, and attempts to profile people based on their edits to stereotypically gendered subjects. They did an online survey of users back in 2013 or 2014, as I vague...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:04 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: BEUTLER ENTERPRISES, INC v. RUFF et al
- Replies: 11
- Views: 381
Re: BEUTLER ENTERPRISES, INC v. RUFF et al
Are people not incredibly embarrassed by the fact the edit history for the article about them is full of paid editor accounts? No. The only people who look at edit histories are Wikipedians, and there aren't enough of them to compel anyone to make even the teensy-tiniest little alteration in their ...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:38 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2626
Re: Server issues
Anyway, they tell me they're doing some sort of major "server maintenance" thingy that's supposed to start in about 10 minutes, and maybe last 5-6 hours, which — in theory — could mean they're trying to do something to stem the tide of complaints from customers on shared-server plans. Okay, it's no...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:29 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: “We love our charter, Oh Lord, we love our charter...”
- Replies: 7
- Views: 401
Re: “We love our charter, Oh Lord, we love our charter...”
I'm not exactly sure how "donor rights" are being protected. I don't doubt that there's some angle I am missing. What's interesting to me is that making it easier for "stakeholders" to collaborate with each other will actually jeopardize "donor rights" rather than safeguard them. Presumably, the "r...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:56 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2626
Re: Server issues
Seems to come and go (or as someone I know once said of their Dalnet connection, to be bouncing up and down like a $20 whore). My understanding is that the bouncing-up-and-down thing has become more of a "high-end escort" type of offering among the sex worker community, but of course I can't speak ...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:36 am
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Wikipedia disproportionally applying the term “sex tape” to women
- Replies: 18
- Views: 629
Re: Male vs Female: Examples of how topics are written about between the sexes
I noticed that for both Paris Hilton and Pamela Anderson , the Celebrity sex tape is mentioned in the first or second paragraph of the article, but for Tommy Lee and Rick Salomon , it isn't mentioned until much later. I'm pretty sure the defense of the terminology will be that if it's referred to as...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:35 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: In real terms, Wikipedia are down 14 Administrators in the last year
- Replies: 70
- Views: 2902
Re: In real terms, Wikipedia are down 14 Administrators in the last year
I remain convinced, as I always was, that en.wiki doesn't need a shit tonne of admins. But it has always needed a mix of admins both in backgrounds and attitudes (including some softies to offset the hardasses) and in the kinds of tasks they do. Do you think that adding all the additional roles lik...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:39 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Venezuelan politics Arbcom case
- Replies: 11
- Views: 642
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:14 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Venezuelan politics Arbcom case
- Replies: 11
- Views: 642
Re: Venezuelan politics Arbcom case
Then out of the blue WMrapids was checkuser blocked by Primefac ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=&user=Primefac&page=User%3AWMrapids&wpdate=&tagfilter=&wpfilters[]=newusers&wpFormIdentifier=logeventslist ). Simón, el Silbón was similarly blocked a minute before ( https://en.wikipedi...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 6:28 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2626
Re: Server issues
Yeah, that didn't last long. I wonder if there are Wikipedia fans on Bluehost's server-op staff?
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 5:36 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Belly button fluff
- Replies: 17
- Views: 750
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:29 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Barkeep49 RFA
- Replies: 45
- Views: 2657
Re: Barkeep49 RFA
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...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 7:48 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Barkeep49 RFA
- Replies: 45
- Views: 2657
Re: Barkeep49 RFA
Literally what was even the point of necro'ing this thread if not for attention lol I think he's trying to say that Mr. Barkeep49 has achieved a level of influence in just 5-6 years (since becoming an Admin) that Mr. Newyorkbrad took roughly a decade to achieve, and with arguably less "fanfare," wh...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 8:52 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2626
Re: Server issues
Is this saying that each user can have only one connection, or that there can only be one user connection? Technically it's both, but the "user" in that context isn't each individual visitor or forum member, it's the entire website. All of our requests to the database server come from our one hosti...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:41 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2626
Re: Server issues
Also.... It looks like one of the things they did to ameliorate (I refuse to say "fix") the page-load-times problem was to enable caching when you use the back-button. So if you read the site via the "Active Topics" page and use the back-button to go back to Active Topics after reading the new post...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:17 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2626
Re: Server issues
I have updates... My guess is that Bluehost totally knows they've overloaded their servers, and have been fiddling with their configurations in hopes of reducing the number of complaints. I just spent another hour or so chatting with one of their support people, and this time they seem to have — fo...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:08 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Let's talk about Unification Church editors
- Replies: 22
- Views: 724
Re: Let's talk about Unification Church editors
(IIRC you once called me Yog Shoggoth. I just can't remember exactly how you spelt it.) It's " Yog-Sothoth ," and it was actually a compliment because in the Cthulhu Mythos, Yog-Sothoth is basically the all-powerful universal deity, the "All-in-One and One-in-All of limitless being and self." Much ...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:29 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2626
Re: Server issues
Agreed, this is getting ridiculous. I'm looking at A2 Hosting, Siteground, Greengeeks and maybe Hostinger as potential new hosting providers. If anyone wants to recommend some others, or un-recommend any of those four, feel free to post here or send me a PM, or if that's too slow, e-mail the Support...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 12:28 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2626
Re: Server issues
Known issue. They are contemplating a hosting upgrade. More like a hosting change — unfortunately, the situation hasn't gotten much better since this post of mine a month ago. I was hoping we'd see more improvement in recent weeks, but IMO we really haven't, and Bluehost is still aggressively adver...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 12:12 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Sandstein thinks using the term "legacy admin" is blockable offense
- Replies: 52
- Views: 3112
Re: Sandstein thinks using the term "legacy admin" is blockable offense
I thought that was a BS argument then, undescriptive of reality, and it's an argument that can't even rationally be made a decade or more later — because teenagers don't stay teenagers forever. Most of the rules and conventions put in place by those teenagers and freikulturkinder 18 years ago are s...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 10:23 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Sandstein thinks using the term "legacy admin" is blockable offense
- Replies: 52
- Views: 3112
Re: Sandstein thinks using the term "legacy admin" is blockable offense
It seems fairly clear to me that this guy is using the term "legacy admin" to distinguish between admins who were active in the early days of WP and had (and might still have) that "must grow the database at all costs" mentality, as opposed to more recently-promoted admins who better understand that...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:27 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: The Wikipedia monster gleefully tears down the future Queen of England
- Replies: 205
- Views: 6006
Re: The Wikipedia monster gleefully tears down the future Queen of England
...I do however take the points of those who are interested and were reading and have given good advice, on board. They are my peers. And so I invite their comments regarding how such things should be covered in a Wikipedia criticism forum setting for the maximum benefit of wider society and the be...