Wikipediocracy

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The problems that persist for me are adding smileys to posts, being repeatedly logged out when hitting submit to post or update my signature or send a private message, and repeatedly getting an error message when attempting to log in.

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I'd just like to say this is all Jake's fault and if he hadn't been so lazy none of this would ever have happened. Plus if I open the extra smileys on my phone I can't get back to my post. Otherwise there would be more smileys.

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I just hope they don't delete the List of films featuring powered exoskeletons , since it's so handy to refer to when I go out on a first date and the gal asks me if there are any movies that might give her an idea of what living with me could conceivably be like. Huh. With me it's more laughing to...

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Proverbs 16:9

In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps.

Perhaps check back in on the human part of Wikipedia when the time allows. Not everyone can do that part well.

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Randy from Boise wrote: ↑
Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:10 am

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Fri Jan 12, 2024 1:06 am
Longstop isn't British English for death is it?
That would be permastop.

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Longstop isn't British English for death is it?

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Hemp seeds or sunflower seeds can replace chickpeas in falafel.

How did half of Israel (scroll up) end up being Middle Eastern Jews if it wasn't due to expulsion from Arab States around the time Israel was founded?

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Zoloft wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 22, 2023 6:51 pm
Let me know if any y'all are on that platform, and know interesting people to follow.

The advice I received was to follow as many accounts as possible to get a good feed going. Dan Murphy is there under his Twitter handle.

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sigh. I would've been getting on a plane tommorow to go to this, I got a scholarship. Maybe you can apply for the Wikipediocracy schoollarship bingo ticket. Who knows, your number might come up again! ( § ) As long as the center square is 'Vigilant'. I'd rather play Wikipediocracy Trivial Pursuit t...

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Does anyone know which journalists have covered issues like the Holocaust in Poland controversy, the issues on the Croatian Wikipedia (did it get media coverage), and the issues on the Japanese Wikipedia?

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According to someone on X (formerly Twitter), the claim put forth is that only military installations were attacked. https://twitter.com/elderofziyon/status/1716968688849489946 link Which media outlet(s) covered issues in Japanese Wikipedia? Did any journalists write about bias in the Croatian Wikip...

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Do you guys read labels? ingredients in Indomie Instant Noodles, mi goreng flavour. Noodles: Wheat flour (62%), refined palm oil (contains TBHQ), salt, sodium tripolyphosphate, potassium carbonate, sodium carbonate, guar gum, riboflavin. Seasoning Powder: Salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate, disodium...

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I don't see anything all that suspicious about this request of theirs, especially since the situation with state Voter ID laws is indeed rather fluid. But the VoteRiders article seems quite positive as it is, and I'm not seeing any evidence of "vandal" edits recently either. So naturally I have to ...

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ltbdl wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 27, 2023 1:51 am
what.

Specify.

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They have a contact form (and an email address for press inquiries) if you'd like to help them aim for practical updates to the Wikipedia article.

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They also need help , virtual or in-person, helping people in Houston (TX), Columbus (GA), Pittsburgh (PA), Orlando (FL) and Charlotte (NC), Madison (WI), Milwaukee (WI) and Atlanta (GA). You only have to be computer literate to help. They do a couple of virtual trainings to prepare volunteers who t...

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Vote Riders provides various types of help with voter ids. Here's their request . It sounds like they have "reliably sourced material," and are just looking for people to do the updating, possibly due to volunteer efforts going to more direct activities. They are offering to train people, but there ...

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Wasn't there a conflict at a public spot (airport?) in 2016 over in Greece after which a female Wikimedian said she would no longer feel comfortable in the presence of a male Wikimedian? I seem to recall that woman was very enthused about bringing Wikitherapy to Greece from Argentina. Maybe the same...

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tarantino wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 06, 2023 3:21 am
Maybe Jake or zoloft can add that, I don't know. From a quick search of PhpBB forums, I don't see an answer on how to do that.

Thanks.

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tarantino wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 06, 2023 2:53 am

Smultronstället wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 06, 2023 2:42 am
And then can I switch it to chronological order?
Click on the box at the bottom of the page, to the right of the wrench, and choose direction:descending.

Okay, thanks. I guess it doesn't work in active topics though.

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And then can I switch it to chronological order?

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With all due respect to NYB, 1) there is nothing ambiguous about how the policy is written and 2) you're not an arbitrator anymore. I know very well that I'm not an arbitrator anymore. I've never claimed to be an arbitrator anymore. In fact, this has been a very good year not to be an arbitrator an...

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Here's an interesting piece of critical writing about B4U-ACT and "MAP" that I would read properly if I had the energy. It seems like it has a fair degree of religious POV though. That's a long read. I'm taking a break from it after reading Section II. But on that section, I think the authors misun...

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As a future DNA analyst, I am a little too knowledgeable about this topic. I used to be sympathetic to the idea that we need to encourage non-offending pedophiles to seek help. However, after seeing scary crap happen on various mental health support websites after they adopt that mentality, I now s...

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There is this source which has a passage mentioning Joe Nihill. https://www.cp24.com/news/this-is-horrifying-how-a-pro-suicide-forum-encourages-sodium-nitrite-use-in-canada-u-k-1.6384699 At first that itself is nothingburger. However if combined with the NYT article which actually mentioned the sit...

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That's terrible. Sickening.

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Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 15, 2023 3:04 am
WALES HARPOONED IN MISGUIDED FISHING EXPEDITION?

Yes, this one.

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Anonymous just hacked Tucker Carlson! https://twitter.com/AnonOpsSE/status/1635791717172494338 His DMs are open. I wonder if there will be a release of conversations between him and whoever he corresponded with. His text messages (or was it emails) that were released due to a lawsuit's discovery we...

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P.S. WHY has my customer base become MORE male over time? It's a statistically significant shift. The same early-20-somethings from the 1990s are now 40-somethings in the 2020s. Women have cycled out. Why? The answer to THAT question might cross over to provide some insight about WP editor demograp...

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Arishok wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 12, 2023 7:58 pm
(Note that I have no view on whether this is or isn't just, but it's a very very strong pattern in CT-related cases like this that TBans are handed out like candy at Halloween. Just look over at the proposed decision of the current AA3 case for the most recent example.)

What are CT-related cases?

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Anonymous somehow weighed in and put another punch: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4828910 The collective also railed against Wikipedia for allegedly underrepresenting women in its articles, having a "spending cancer," engaging in deletionism, and committing POV skewing. It also accused Wiki...

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I found out about Eliza Bleu from Larry Sanger's Twitter feed where he often retweeted her. She was ostensibly involved with preventing child trafficking, so she was popular with the QAnon crowd. Apparently Twitter is rife with pedophiles selling children. She got the attention of Elon Musk, who is...

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I found out about Eliza Bleu from Larry Sanger's Twitter feed where he often retweeted her. She was ostensibly involved with preventing child trafficking, so she was popular with the QAnon crowd. Apparently Twitter is rife with pedophiles selling children. She got the attention of Elon Musk, who is...

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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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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 12, 2023 9:22 pm

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Sun Feb 12, 2023 8:41 pm

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Sun Feb 12, 2023 2:30 am
Is there anyone you don't know?
Many of the people I know have died, but not this time, at least.

You seem like WPO's switchboard operator.

He should be the central hub to Wikipediocracy's annual cookie exchange.

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Smiley has disappeared for months at a time before. Sometimes they just want to get away from the internet and computers. I did email them on New Year's but never got a response. Maybe there are Wikipedia critics who could check on him. I'm checking. I asked someone who's close to them IRL. The res...

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Is the article writer alleged to be glorifying Nazis or to be trying to hold Nazis (and their descendants) to account? Neither. It's just the usual tactic of trying to associated anyone involved in gender studies with Nazis, assuming a pedophile or serial killer isn't available. I would imagine it'...

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This article was created by the person at the root of all this. I'll give you a bit of the Google translation and I think you'll spot the issue: Claudia Brunner (born 1972 , Graz , Austria ) is an Austrian researcher. Biography Family She is the great-niece of Alois Brunner , a Nazi war criminal [ ...

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Can anyone provide a summary of why Icewhiz parted ways with this forum?

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ScotFinnRadish wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 09, 2023 11:55 pm
Wikipedia’s Intentional Distortion of the History of the Holocaust
New paper in the Journal of Holocaust Research. They seem to think Wikipedia is no good.

My interpretation of the piece is that they think far too highly of Wikipedia. I don't think they have begun to grasp what it is.

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The 2019 Arbitration Committee case ended dismally for defenders of historical accuracy. Instead of sanctioning Volunteer Marek for restoring unreliable sources and defending misrepresentations of sources, the administrators accused Icewhiz himself of distortion. Absurdly, they charged him with BLP...

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tarantino wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 06, 2023 6:33 pm
Smiley has disappeared for months at a time before. Sometimes they just want to get away from the internet and computers. I did email them on New Year's but never got a response.

Maybe there are Wikipedia critics who could check on him.

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 29, 2023 7:50 pm
WMF canvassing at an en.wp RfC

pdf of the email sent urging canvassing at the RfC

Should be fired.

What part is canvassing?

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This isn't a story about ChatGPT, but it illustrates the dangers of jumping on the AI bandwagon if you don't know what you're doing. <snip> Note that this shouldn't happen and doesn't happen with the current crop of popular large language models. It happened because whoever made that AI "did it wro...

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Tue Jan 24, 2023 5:34 am
Mind your tags.

They're saying that BECAUSE the news stories aren't negative means that the new skin MUST be good.

If you can't see the fallacy there, I don't know what to say.

What do you think explains it?

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Someone on Sucks said this extension works, but it's for Chrome.

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It happened to me this morning on two pages. I don't understand what it means. I guess it didn't matter at all. That's my takeaway.

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Repeating the specifics would likely only cause problems. I think the person who commented on the Signpost brief Andreas worked up might well be right about the account currently editing fr.wp being the same person for a number of reasons. (In fact, I recently undid some of what they convinced some...

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Also, just so our own registered Wikipediocracy members are clear on this point, if someone here posted something like that in a public (or even a private) forum thread, I'm pretty sure we'd delete it right away — or at the very least, loooonnnnnnng before a French court ordered us to pay €45,000 i...

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When I brought Sulpyensid to the French equivalent of AN, the result was his first block on fr.wp. He was indeffed 3 months later. Now the WMF is being charged €500 a day as long as they withhold his IP info concerning another BLP matter. It appears that web platforms are required by French law to ...

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