Wikipediocracy

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As you all recall, Laura Hale was single-mindedly determined to establish Netball as an Olympic Sport. Of course, it never has been, and a recent decision by the International Olympic Committee, it will not be in 2028. Sports like Lacrosse, Squash and Crickett have made the cut, but alas, Netball is...

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What can we do to clean up the harm administered to Fram and Laura Hale's many other victims?

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Why are people so upset over this? Mr. Putin is just following the ground-breaking path already set by Laura and Maria to terrorize editors and dictate fake content for the website. How can you compare a minor fib like "Russia is winning the war" to a major lie such as "Netball is an Olympic sport" ...

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ArmasRebane wrote: ↑
Sun Jan 16, 2022 12:41 am
I don't think they're secretly in control of anything, but there's a blatantly obvious problem with having an advocacy organization with opaque membership running its own training for the purposes of influencing Wikipedia.

Isn't that equally true of most Edit-a-thons, GLAMs, or Women in Red?

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Welcome Post by Hersch » Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:16 pm I can't believe it has been ten years. When Wikipedia hit the 10 year mark, there was world-wide celebrations of self-congratulations. Although there have been critics of WP for more than ten years, and earlier WP criticism sites, in my opinion, non...

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Can we come up with a list of NFTs with more merit: 1) First Wikipediocracy blog post 2) First public disclosure of Jimbo's Russian massage parlor reimbursement by WMF. 3) First posting of Jimbo's underwear up for auction on eBay. 4) First disclosure on Wikipediocracy of the marriage of Maria and La...

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Thank you for that context. However, there is always the danger that the newbie will take BHG literally, without realizing the attempt at humor.

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I found this recent exchange on BrownhairedGirl's talk page: Contact with William Bill Collins Good Day. I am in process of trying to scout my father's college track and field teammates. He turns 70 and lives in the Bahamas. I think Mr. Collins may have even stood as best man at my parents wedding. ...

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Most people assume that a non-profit's main asset is money/endowment. However, one could argue that it is the donor base and the volunteers. We have seen that Jimbo Wales has been unsuccessful in bringing the volunteers to his subsequent ventures. Lila (and significant other Willm) left under a clou...

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To get back to the fundamental point, there is an important community of contributors at English Wikipedia that deserve to function without interference (and some would argue, without day-to-day struggles to keep the servers running.) Unfortunately, the Wikimedia Foundation is now a separate, self-p...

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The WMF (Jimbo, Maria and Laura) have won every time! They may abandon individual battles, such as the misinformation war to declare netball to be an Olympic Sport, get their Russian massage parlor expenses reimbursed, etc. But in their global campaign to be paid consultants on the world stage, what...

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Why discuss these six instances of bias? Isn't the fact that WMF is spending years in court suing the NSA sufficient evidence of its bias? Wikipedia cannot claim to be apolitical when it expands its scope to include NSA lawsuits or SOPA-PIPA site shutdowns.

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I wonder what the NDA says. I am sure that the Board will be exposed to many exciting ideas that Mr. Wales will promise not to compete against. In general, Mr. Wales gets the benefit of annual director fees and Nesta gets to pick his brain. However, I do not see any benefits to Wikia or the WMF from...

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In the United States, there have been two major revenue sources: subscription fees and advertisements. In general, a paper was lucky to have the subscription fee cover the cost of printing and distribution. In many cases, subscriptions were sold as a loss-leader to boost circulation in order to obta...

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In terms of dialects, please peer review the following WMF funding proposal that we plan to submit under the co-sponsorship of Eagle and Jimbo: A New Wikipedia to reflect the Appalachian English dialect. Sponsors: Eagle and Jimbo Qualifications: both are very expert on WMF politics and policy. User:...

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Our "knowledge equity" goal will have the WMF throwing as many resources to the Scots Wikipedia as it devotes to the English Wikipedia. If we have to pay big $$$ to some linguistic expert to study Scots and then correct the work of the 12-year-old, that is just as good a use of funds as inviting a S...

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Most states have not eliminated the requirement for an annual meeting. Rather, Governors have used their emergency powers to allow the meetings to be held using a virtual format.

Since election of board seats can be held on-line, there is really no valid reason for postponing the election.

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The draft Universal Code of Conduct has been posted for public comment. I dare any fair-minded person to compare the Code to Laura Hale's conduct discussed in this thread. There is much substance that would be prohibited. However, stuff like "respect people's pronouns" etc. would probably be quickly...

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The next logical step in the Wikipedia editor's argument will be that tenure review should be based upon the faculty member's Wikipedia biography rather than a portfolio of published research papers and expert comments.

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On Sept. 23, The Devil's Advocate posted a Breitbart article entitled " https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/23/six-cases-of-wikipedia-editors-smearing-president-trump/,Six Cases of Wikipedia Editors Smearing President Trump ". TDA fails to mention that during this period the Chair of the WMF ...

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It is hard to argue that "WikiLives Matter" in competition with Black Lives Matter and COVID-19. Most educational institutions are facing uncontrollable COVID-19 costs and reduced revenues. Meanwhile, many parents are seeing their careers and income go down the drain. Of course, philanthropy is bein...

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Peter was a major defender/enabler of Laura Hale.

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It is important to note that this report does not include assests held in the "Wikipedia Endowment" at the Tides Foundation. The assets being invested by the WMF are separate from the Tides Foundation's assets held to benefit Wikipedia in the future. Any donation made directly to the Tides Foundatio...

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Since there is no meaningful opportunity for community input, I strongly suggest that we terminate and postpone any further discussion of the 2030 strategy until noon on December 31, 2029. That will give the WMF 12 hours for discussion and implementation, without torturing us in the meantime. (This ...

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What are the ethic rules governing the editing from outer space? https://www.nasa.gov/offices/ogc/general_law/outsideactivity.html The approval process is the most important issue for the majority of outside activities. NASA requires advance approval for outside employment involving the following: T...

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The idea that an encyclopedia that anyone can edit includes the idea that all edits are equal and that we should not give any extra weight to where edits are made. So, when one goes through the edit history or recent changes, one does not see the location of the edits. This is causing https://lists....

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One would expect the 2030 Strategy to discuss advertising vs. no advertising. But instead it gets itself all tangled up in post-modernism "knowledge equity." "Imagine a world were a bunch of social justice warriors get to wikibattle over which 'truth' is presented to unwitting consumers of verifiabl...

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To me, the magic words are "model policy." I raised the need for using model policies rather than a binding uniform policy in terms of the standards of conduct (a topic that is much debated in the 2030 Strategic Review.) Once the idea of "model policy" has been accepted, much of the argument in the ...

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There are many dumb ideas that have survived the "harmonization sprint." I think the only way to kill them is for every member of Wikipediocracy using the public comment period in January-February to file separate comments in "Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Spanish, and Portuguese." English is not e...

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I realize that language is a barrier to policy making in an international organization. Successful organization find a way to overcome it. The above proposal does not. First, we hold an "harmonization sprint" in Tunis (of the Global South) where French is a widespread language, but when you read the...

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Osborne wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 18, 2019 6:58 am
I wonder if you are Fram, or you just live together?

I love the backhanded reference to Hawkeye7 and LauraHale (or more recently, LauraHale and Raystorm.)

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I dare anyone to compare the above thoughtful list of "demands" to the 2030 Strategy, which are anti-knowledge, post-modernist demands for the Global South to feed unabated at the WMF trough. The quid pro quo for a stream of donations from the Global north is a (cough, cough) somewhat reliable refer...

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If you have ever attended a track meet, or watched Olympic track and field on TV, you know that there are some people sprinting as fast as they can, in some cases only for 10 seconds, followed by long waits for the next sprint. WMF governance is following the same pattern. Perhaps this forum should ...

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In years long past, Mr. Wales earned a reputation (justified or not) of being sexually active at Wikimania. In years long past, Bangkok earned a reputation for wide-spread sexual activity (for hire or not). I do not understand who and how the decision was made to hold Wikimania in Bangkok during the...

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I sense that currently, Community Engagement spends a great deal of time in San Francisco addressing English Wikipedia and other large language encyclopedias. If, heaven forbid, the new 2030 proposals go through, they will find native speakers and base them in cities around the word so that those WM...

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When it closed:

Support = 23; Oppose = 29; Neutral = 1 - 44% Result. Unsuccessful.

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Does anyone have a quick way to count the number of biographies of male vs. female porn stars?

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A correction and apology. I have mis-interpreted the meta website which is very confusing. The set of recommendations posted in August just before Wikimania included 12 from the Community Health Working Group, there are now labeled as "Round 1". On September 14, meta reposted the 12 recommendations...

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A reposted recommendation from the Community Health Working Group includes #9, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Sprint/Community_Health/10,which was also posted on September 14: The Community Health working group recommends developing a network of r...

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Wait there is more! The Community Health Working Group has reposted another recommendation (#11) on Sept. 14, the day before the end of the https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Sprint/Community_Health/11,comment period; Ensure that all community members...

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For the very few of you who do not have a watch page list on meta, or are otherwise lacking an eagle eye, you probably missed (as I did) that additional recommendations were added by the Working Groups after Wikimania but before the Harmonization Sprint. Here is one that was added on September 14, t...

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https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2019-October/093604.html,Fae scores again: That's helpful. Volunteers are repeatedly shut down asking questions on this list and on wiki project noticeboards, by being told they should ask questions on these more obscure and hard to find meta talk p...

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Vigilant wrote:At this point, the signpost just seems to be the WMDC grievance machine.

It's probably time to disband it.

Signpost or WMDC? Both have their downsides.

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Maile66 and Fram are starting to relitigate Framgate using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-09-30/From_the_editors,Sept. 30 Signpost talk page as a forum: Indeed, where do we go from here? We need to be better at policing our own, and it will happen (has happened) ...

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Could you expand on why invoking NOLEGALTHREATS would not be allowed under the GDPR? (I too hope it wouldn't, but I'd want to be able to refute that argument if I came across it.) This is a multistep process. If someone makes an SAR, and it is legitimate (e.g., the requestor is within the scope as ...

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Are we still wondering what happened in Tunis at the Harmonization Sprint?

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I have publicly called for Maher’s resignation. Enough is enough. She is not up to the job. Wikipedia is in crisis, has been for years. Giving a rah rah rah presentation and focusing on fundraising isn’t going to impact the very critical problems. The most relevant data is what did she do or say in...

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I am sure that the knee jerk reaction to GDPR would be to amend NOLEGALTHREATS to say that anyone who makes a GDPR request is blocked while it is pending. Of course this would not be allowed under the GDPR.

Perhaps Mr. Fram or other people on the T&S SanFranBan list should make similar requests.

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Laura Hale then used WMF funds to write up the difference between her DYK hooks and those of Gibraltarpedia. [link]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anatomy_of_English_Wikipedia_Did_You_Know_traffic[/link] Cheeky. I still do not understand how a WMF individual research grant is measured, oth...

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Laura Hale's Warning box https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Vanished_user_adhmfdfmykrdyrv&oldid=824761727,addressed to Fram said: You have claimed that DYKs I did were related to Gibraltarpedia, when they were clearly not, and you never retracted this. In the middle of the Gibarlta...

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