That’s a valid generalization, but it’s a lot less true for nonprofits that have a super-specialized mission, or have to make hard choices about limited resources.
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- Mon Apr 29, 2024 5:44 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Was Maher fired?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 4028
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 2:19 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 90
- Views: 2764
Re: Server issues
Previously, on my PC at home and my phone at work, whenever I viewed a thread here, the cookies (umm, that internet whatchamacallit) and not 25 Apr 2024 topically not Anzac biscuit ) would un-orange the thread. Lately, when I view a thread here, it's still in orange, unless I log out and view it ag...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Was Maher fired?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 4028
Re: Was Maher fired?
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:41 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: The autobiographers
- Replies: 98
- Views: 27562
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:40 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Framming
- Replies: 21
- Views: 679
Re: Framming
[...] Colin Archer Lives! PS: Norwegian? Nahhh. Archer's parents were from Scotland, but moved to Norway before his birth. Archer himself (although not his children, IMS) very much kept Scottish.. There was a large diaspora of Scots around the North Sea and into the Baltic. Some of them remained En...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Framming
- Replies: 21
- Views: 679
Re: Framming
Come to us, Fram. We have your user avatar all ready: https://i.imgur.com/3mj5KCx.png No, no, no. Everyone knows that Fram has no filter. :evilgrin: And he sometimes goes dangerously far. So I propose: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Amundsen-Fram.jpg Fram (ship) I was genuinely...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:00 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Unflattering portraits
- Replies: 229
- Views: 89710
Re: Unflattering portraits
Richie Williams https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Richie_Williams_NYRB.jpg Not used in his article, but used in New_England_Revolution_in_international_competition#Leagues_Cup What a beautiful example of the bad effects of DiCkLicAtiOn ( and other MoS Minion Madness) on article ti...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:23 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Digital trail identifying Israeli spy chief has been online for years
- Replies: 15
- Views: 636
Re: Digital trail identifying Israeli spy chief has been online for years
I know a man who is paid by a council at Israeli embassy to edit the Albanian Wikipedia and honestly it is so based, I am not paid to do so but I still do That is very interesting. Thank you for such an interesting story. It’s not true, though. Any fule knos that the Albanian Wiki is cringe .
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:42 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia exposed on r/Destiny
- Replies: 26
- Views: 842
Re: Wikipedia exposed on r/Destiny
... some civilians might die and that's bad but it's okay I think most people will write you off when you say things like this. Also it would help people understand the points you're trying to make if you use proper punctuation. You're on a web forum here, not texting your buddies on your cell phon...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia exposed on r/Destiny
- Replies: 26
- Views: 842
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia exposed on r/Destiny
- Replies: 26
- Views: 842
Re: Wikipedia exposed on r/Destiny
The problem with your analysis, Crow, fairly accurate as it is, is that it glides over the usual way in which bad things get done: a part of one group misbehaves, a part of another group misbehaves back, and then once the consequences are serious the whole of both groups justify their behavior based...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:09 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Was Maher fired?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 4028
Re: Was Maher fired?
Katherine Maher says that she abandoned a "free and open" internet as the mission of Wikipedia, because those principles recapitulated a "white male Westernized construct" and "did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be." https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/178092926...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:06 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 31000
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
[...] Among other things, he has cunningly outed my DanMurphy account as being operated by Dan Murphy. (Though it must be some other Dan Murphy who worked for National Geographic.) He has made that particular post about 50 times in the past month or so (I get a ping at Wikipedia every time he does ...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:49 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wondrous commons images
- Replies: 164
- Views: 5422
Re: Wondrous commons images
From the file name and category, this is Canadian model James Lam , presumably taken by fashion photographer Greg Swales ... 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." Or just typ...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:35 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419973
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
Today’s Disgrace o’ the day asks “Do You Kare about Censorship by copyright (T-H-L)?”
What a miserable little polemic coatrack of a POV fork.
What a miserable little polemic coatrack of a POV fork.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 11:15 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wondrous commons images
- Replies: 164
- Views: 5422
Re: Wondrous commons images
From the file name and category, this is Canadian model James Lam , presumably taken by fashion photographer Greg Swales ... 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." Or just typ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 3:21 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 31000
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
"Please," squacked the baby Crow, "Who will sacrifice themselves for me?" The thing is, this isn’t Crow’s fault, is it? Asking someone to meatpuppet his utterings to WP:ANI is asking someone to fall on their sword for him. Again, that isn’t really Crow’s doing. That is because a large number of wik...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 5:34 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Missing Articles — Low-hanging Fruit?
- Replies: 562
- Views: 210217
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:22 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 31000
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 10:00 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617401
Re: Wikipedia's worst sentences
Waste of Skin.rnu wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:14 pmI think the technical term for people like this is harbinger of the fall of civilization.TheSpacebook wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 12:49 amTrisha Paytas (T-H-L) (I’m unsure what the occupation of this person actually is)
[...]
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 90
- Views: 2764
Re: Server issues
Looks fine today so far.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:13 pm
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 90
- Views: 2764
Re: Server issues
Screwed up from Hell to breakfast here.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:29 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia's worst sentences
- Replies: 1090
- Views: 617401
Re: Wikipedia's worst sentences, NSS subsection.
“In 1986, she published her best selling memoir Board Meetings in the Bath: How We Opened Knebworth House to the Public on her experience opening Knebworth to the public.”
Chryssie Lytton Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold (T-H-L).
Chryssie Lytton Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold (T-H-L).
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:01 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
- Replies: 29
- Views: 968
Re: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
rnu wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:48 pmAs much as I was “born” with a name.The Blue Newt wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:45 pmYou were born with pronouns?Zoloft wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:22 amAt the risk of being Athenaeraed off the site, perhaps “birth pronouns” might be more useful.TheSpacebook wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:41 am
Well, we don't have a 'Preferred Pronouns' entry in our profile. Perhaps we should.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
- Replies: 29
- Views: 968
Re: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
It seems Molly White is not a good spokesperson in unedited audio. But one thing she is, is an example of a prominent Wikipedian (and a vocal one) who's female. I've said before that I consider "Wikipedia editors are overwhelmingly male" to be a myth nurtured by the WMF for its own purposes based o...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 3:43 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Today's featured article...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 328
Re: Today's featured article...
TFA is the the Flachspüler of the system.
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:44 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
- Replies: 29
- Views: 968
Re: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
It's no more complicated than Wikipedia was addictive, but not nearly as addictive as having social media in your palm. The first iPhone was released in 2007. Wikipedia peaked in 2008. The facebook was going viral just as Wikipedia peaked, but its users did look rather sad to normal folk (non-nerds...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:15 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419973
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
Today’s Dead o’ the Day features Antonette Mendes (T-H-L), whose article epitomizes the confluence of Babu and Fyne Wrytyng.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:12 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
- Replies: 29
- Views: 968
Re: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
Does it ever get past the level of “Best there is, thanks to…well, modesty forbids?”
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Deathly Shallows: Wikipedia's coverage of JK Rowling
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1260
Re: Deathly Shallows: Wikipedia's coverage of JK Rowling
Nahh, you just have to bring in bonded labor.TheSpacebook wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:14 pmMmmm, maybe I am being a bit too ambitious with my thinking then. Maybe I'll just drop it in the talk page and then leave. Thank you for preventing me from starting a TERF war.
(What, you never heard of serf ‘n TERF?)
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 6:05 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 90
- Views: 2764
Re: Server issues
Seems to be at it again.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:53 am
- Forum: Mission Statement, Terms of Service, and Welcome
- Topic: Server issues
- Replies: 90
- Views: 2764
Re: Server issues
“SQL ERROR [ mysqli ] User 'wikiped3_root' has exceeded the 'max_user _connections' resource (current value: 1) [1226] An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.” Is this saying that each user can have only one connection, or that there ...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 2:51 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Personal touches
- Replies: 194
- Views: 52672
Re: Personal touches
In Winslow Homer , we can learn that The Gulf Stream (painting) shows “a Black sailor adrift in a damaged boat, surrounded by sharks and an impending maelstrom.” I am unsure if this is because Scotwriter thinks that whirlpools form out in the Gulf Stream, or he thinks it a fancy word for a waterspou...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 11:07 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419973
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour, NSS Department
Do You Kare that that Waluigi inspired the name of a phenomenon in artificial intelligence known as the Waluigi effect?
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:20 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Infodemic
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1351
Re: Infodemic
A book not to be tossed aside lightly.AndyTheGrump wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:11 pmI look forward to not reading it with much anticipation...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:26 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419973
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
DYK ... ... that color-changing cats (artist's impression pictured) could help us communicate with the future? OK this is technically just extremely misleading, but since the overwhelming proportion of people will misunderstand it it is just dangerous scientific misinformation. This is PROFRINGE to...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:15 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Doxxipedia: Exact location data of notable living people being published
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1248
Re: Doxxipedia: The Publication of Living People’s Private Home Addresses
Stephen King's (former) house in Bangor is one of the city's most noted tourist attractions. :) If someone added the street address to the article, I wouldn't see a problem. (If someone added his current address in Florida, I grant you, I'd have to think about it.) That’s about how I see this. If t...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:45 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419973
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
rnu, I feel like you don't understand DYK. You're supposed to be left with questions after reading a hook. The hook is supposed to be exciting. That's the whole point. You click on the article and satisfy the questions the hook raised for you. Perhaps the question shouldn’t be “why was I stupid eno...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 9:33 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419973
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
From today's featured article Lou Henry Hoover blurb: Her invitation of Jessie De Priest to the White House for tea was controversial in the South. Or for those who don't want to follow the wiki-links to see what this is about: By not excluding the (black) wife of the only black congressman from th...
- Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:56 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Over 500 people sign petition against skeptic Wikipedia editors "suppression" of information regarding UFOs
- Replies: 58
- Views: 2272
Re: Over 500 people sign petition against skeptic Wikipedia editors "suppression" of information regarding UFOs
I just checked to see how many signatures the petition has now (626). I scrolled down to see what kind of other petitions change.org has. I really wish I hadn't. :facepalm: Oh, you thought it only hosted serious petitions like this one? I was hoping this one was at the stupid end of the spectrum. N...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 11:16 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Oldest hoax yet, discovered
- Replies: 18
- Views: 949
Re: Oldest hoax yet, discovered
I feel like these "niche artist/author/athlete" article types are the easiest to allow to fly under the radar despite being completely fake. Wikipedia's got thousands of permastubs about technically notable subjects whose online documentation is practically nil, so I suppose people just figured it ...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:43 pm
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Btphelps gets indignant about his COIs
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1475
Re: Let's talk about BSA editors
Graywalls is continuing to piss off the scouting folks. They tried redirecting COPE (Boy Scouts of America) to the main BSA article but they were reverted by Evrik, so now it is nominated for deletion. where the only two keep votes are from Evrik (literally just "keep") and North8000. I guess Btphe...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:42 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419973
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
M. Emmet Walsh (T-H-L), that should be. Bill Clinton (T-H-L), but M. Emmet Walsh (T-H-L). Go figure.The Blue Newt wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:33 amToday’s Daily Disgrace, Dead o’ the Day section features Emmett Walsh (T-H-L), whose article was disfigured by 7&6=thirteen (T-C-L) with this diff.
Compare that with the source.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:33 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419973
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
Today’s Daily Disgrace, Dead o’ the Day section features Emmett Walsh (T-H-L), whose article was disfigured by 7&6=thirteen (T-C-L) with this diff.
Compare that with the source.
Compare that with the source.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:53 am
- Forum: The Money Trail
- Topic: Btphelps gets indignant about his COIs
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1475
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:36 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Crap articles
- Replies: 4422
- Views: 823085
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:43 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: The Wikipedia monster gleefully tears down the future Queen of England
- Replies: 205
- Views: 6022
Re: The Wikipedia monster gleefully tears down the future Queen of England
:facepalm: You look at stuff like this, and you wonder how anyone could take this Wiki thing seriously. I wonder something, that's for sure. Look Kraken, I am profoundly uninterested in anything to do with the royals. Not just specifically your post. I am sure the whole British media circus was unb...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:12 am
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: The Wikipedia monster gleefully tears down the future Queen of England
- Replies: 205
- Views: 6022
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:24 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: The Wikipedia monster gleefully tears down the future Queen of England
- Replies: 205
- Views: 6022
Re: The Wikipedia monster gleefully tears down the future Queen of England
Time for a word limit for Crow. The Mods should add a recipe of something to the end of all their posts. That Doe Snot make any sense. I was in the moment about how people who give out recipes online usually have a long drawn out story before they show what the recipe is. Back in the dear dead days...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:52 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: The Wikipedia monster gleefully tears down the future Queen of England
- Replies: 205
- Views: 6022