Wikipediocracy

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C&B wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:27 am
People could have been fucking killed.

No they couldn't have.

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owl be it wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 10, 2022 5:30 am
Stupid cats (T-H-L)

Still a redlink, amazingly. Even though it's a well-known fact that stupid cats is a cats that is stupid!

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Kraken wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:23 pm
Did You Know that.....when volunteering for Wikipedia, the higher you rise, the less harshly you will be treated for serious breaches of policy and being evasive when you get caught?

Is there any organization or website that doesn't work this way?

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It says a lot about Wikipedia's sheer paranoia around UPE that even a WikiEdu student isn't immune from sly accusations from the Faithful that they're part of a CV mill. It's perfectly normal to write about a person's career in a way that is uplifting and celebratory, charting the ups and downs, ho...

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Ognistysztorm wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 11, 2024 8:12 am

bbb23sucks wrote:The hype train just got back from repairs, and it's chugging' faster than ever!

And it's all set to go into the Guinness Book of Records for the user with the most sockpuppets on Wikipedia ever!

Nobody cares

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You don't need to make an announcement thread here every time you vandalise Wikipedia.

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Alexbrn wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:59 am

Atsme wrote:

You two might be the only people on the world who are mad about ivermectin in 2024, when is the wedding reception?

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Thanks Black Kite! 08:59, 2 January 2024 Black Kite talk contribs deleted page User:Tarc (U1: User request to delete page in own userspace – to retrieve it, see WP:REFUND) Too bad the internet is written in ink . For anybody who thinks my memory is faulty, they are welcome to search for the n-word ...

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Andre do you have any idea how dishonest it is to use a quote from before that story? You were making shit up. Jake, I never got to reply to the white man who pretended to be black so he could call people, including me, the n word hard r then claim it was ok because he was black. But id appreciate ...

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Stephen Harrison has a (fictional) book coming out about Infopendium, which is definitely Wikipedia wearing a trenchcoat: https://www.inkshares.com/books/infodemic The most interesting bit from the sample chapters is that, instead of things like [[WP:NPOV]] and [[WP:RS]] in the edit summaries, we g...

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Stupid threads (T-H-L)

Stupid threads is a threads that is stupid.

That's the whole article... and yet it's a GA?

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While I abide that the flamewar segment of the topic was off-topic, I did get two notifications from hemiauchenia and andre responding to my insult. If either of you want to PM me what your insults were I would be interested in hearing them.

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Wow, I heard that Sportskeeda was more or less a paper of record, so it's a pretty big deal if they're reporting on this disinformation.

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 19, 2023 8:09 pm

Ron Lybonly wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 19, 2023 7:55 pm

Vigilant wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 19, 2023 10:50 am

Also, not the most photogenic group...
https://wikiedu.org/about-us/
Yikes — don’t be catty. What if someone took a picture of all of us???
I'd carry the group...

I keep telling you the cowboy hat avatar was sexier, and you just don't believe me.

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Requests_for_rights&oldid=822254366 Looks like there are now a twentynine requests for autopatrol open right now, compared to a whopping two prior to this announcement. A well-thought-out plan saving time and effort, definitely not just creatin...

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But this raises the fundamental question, wouldn't bias in sources, translate to bias in Wikipedia? I'll take an extreme example, and say country X attacked country Y. The source which is biased towards country Y, will say country X bad. Because it's human nature to view war as bad, and the aggress...

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A reply is something said, written, or done in answer or response to a question or statement. Replies can provide information, instruction, or opinion.

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Beeb, are you not allowed to say why this Paragon guy is banned?

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Meanwhile, the AFD of that article ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Junlper (2nd nomination) ) has been going bumpily to say the least. Lots of SPAs, arguing, old accounts coming out of the woodwork, the whole nine yards. Yikes! The Juniper deletion discussion is a mess. I don’t expect many of the...

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not to edit Wikipedia, but I do care about my privacy. You should too. :rotfl: have fun with the lawsuit. If (and that's a big if) there is a legal basis for this he wouldn't have to sue himself. He would have to report it to (one of) Germany's data protection agencies. The EU claims universal juri...

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Replying to myself to give an example of why I dislike TonyBallioni. On his Commons user page he has a photo of a small boy with the caption "Wikimedia projects exist so the future of humanity may have access to the sum of all knowledge. This boy is who we are working for." https://upload.wikimedia...

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The man from the play in France?

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Beeblebrox wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 25, 2023 4:39 pm
I realize things are much more complicated now

Compared to when? Was there some time when people didn't have sex or talk about it online?

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Drama ensues at WP:ANI with complaints about the "Did you know" (DYK) process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Blatantly_promotional_new_article_being_shilled_in_today's_DYK. "... that the Stupid Nike Phantom Luna football boots is a football boots th...

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Justapedia?

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This is probably as good a time as any to point out that this joke dates back to the 80s at least. That's the whole point, isn't it? Jokes "generated" by AI constructs are all stolen and/or "closely paraphrased" from already-existing jokes, and the original humorist gets no credit. So this just pro...

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Beeblebrox wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 06, 2023 8:41 pm
copious amounts of absolute doggerel devoid of any basis in reality

I trust arbitrators to identify their area of expertise

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Soooo, Qirtaibi/Jeremy Malcom also says this in their post about Wikipedia: Rather than blanket bans, consider policies that require users to tag potentially offensive or triggering content. The platform can then filter out certain tags from content feeds and discovery mechanisms by default, while ...

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Community view on transphobia

It seems bad to me, but I don't get the point of arguing about userboxes.

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I have long-believed that Wikipedia's coverage of aviation goes too far. So I am pretty pleased at the result of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Air Nippon destinations . 120 lists of airline destinations articles deleted. It took a long time to get to this point, even though I actually ope...

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As a compromise we should rename the thread "Nigerian princes (note that this refers only to the common scam technique not as a generalization about Nigerians most of which are fine people) have found the WMF grant trough". Is that too long?

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I thought this was going to be a discussion about how many grown men are upset about how a comedy about a children's toy marketed to little girls did not live up to their expectations of being a tribute to traditional gender roles. I wonder if people will ever become intelligent enough to avoid par...

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I think it's just a slang term now, like how people say they "died laughing".

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From his linked twitter bio: Wikipedia Editor formely known as Davelo15. If you have requests regarding wikipedia articles or want me to create an article feel free to @ me. I think he's just being silly, not doing serious paid editing or whatever. I mean, if he is telling them to contact him publi...

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Couldn't they just say "no deletion discussions" or whatever?

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I actually looked into this as a possible blog-post subject a few months back. As Mr. Doctorow puts it, the "Enshittification" process works like this (and IMO this is exactly what seems to be happening at Reddit right now): [snip] I really wouldn't be suprised if Google replaces its Wikipedia base...

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Some of these are making "Stupid birds is a birds that is stupid" look like a masterpiece.

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This debacle has inspired me to write a controversial esssay. Don't read it right now as it is not done and badly written. The essay will be called "No pedophiles" and it will be similar to the child protection policy, but it will explicitly make being a non-offending pedophile a blockable offense ...

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Well, I'm glad everyone fixed that thing where the process depended on random unaccountable bureaucrats. Now it's just the WMF!

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Sun May 21, 2023 6:32 pm
you're mouth is full of shit

Your slipping, Vig!

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So we've got the Holocaust scandal and then this. Wikipedia seems to be in a string of bad lucks recently. I feel like you have been saying this every couple weeks for the last few centuries. Virtually nobody outside of Wikipedia cares about this stuff. Wikipediocracy is the biggest forum about thi...

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For the record, I personally think the whole endeavor is silly and the foundation can and does use the TOU to ban users already. This is so much time and effort for a payoff of very questionable value. Speaking of useless efforts that pay people of questionable talent, whatever happened to the 5 ye...

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But this guy is a loon, and there's no way a proper Wiki bio would ever please him. It is weird that there's a pretty strong investigative journalist to conspiracy nut pipeline, though. Wonder what that's about. Staring too long into the abyss? Everyone seems to underestimate (and I might even say ...

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There's a thing going around where people are locking their accounts to see if that gets them more engagement. Is he hiring ex-WMF people to work at Twitter? Well, surely there are a lot of employees working at Twitter who could test this feature instead of the CEO doing it himself... wait... :sadb...

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 01, 2023 11:56 am
When you prove to the world that you're a thin skinned crybaby.

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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Made my account private until tomorrow morning to test whether you see my private tweets more than my public ones

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The average Wikipediocracy insult is something proper and clever like "I see the swivel-eyed loon is venting his spleen again". The average Sucks insult is something like "Stupid bbb23s is a bbb23s that is stupid". I've been wondering for a while, but why this fascination with "stupid [noun/name/et...

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The Blue Newt wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 01, 2023 5:36 am
-ussy (T-H-L) (From the Disgrace o’ the Day, naturally.)

If anyone ever doubts that the Front Page Krewe is functionally identical to a 14-year-old incel-in-training, hie them hither.

What has this got to do with incel training? It's related to vaginas?

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The question on the table is Do you support the enforcement of the Universal Code of Conduct based on the revised guidelines? (vote yes or no) I'm not sure how to answer this. The UCoC cannot be enforced based on these guidelines. It can only be enforced after the U4C Building Committee which has n...

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Just when I thought the quality of discussion couldn't get lower, it has. The RFC isn't even an RFC, it's just the complaints department. The vote-count means just as little as a moveon.org petition would mean: that is, nothing. And now the hysterics about "canvassing" have started. You people are ...

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The average Wikipediocracy insult is something proper and clever like "I see the swivel-eyed loon is venting his spleen again". The average Sucks insult is something like "Stupid bbb23s is a bbb23s that is stupid".

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