Kind of fun reading that old thread again.
You new people, chime in!
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(Eleven years later: still never blocked, never socked, never banned...)
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- Mon Apr 29, 2024 6:26 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: How many members here are actually banned from WP?
- Replies: 149
- Views: 6726
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:01 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Was Maher fired?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 3985
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia in Real Time
- Replies: 2
- Views: 196
Re: Wikipedia in Real Time
WIP Radio Philadelphia: LOOK: 2024 Eagles draft pick's link on NFL Draft Wikipedia page goes to…a former WWE Superstar's page? (It has been fixed -- kind of. Dylan McMahon is now a disambiguation page with only one entry: Dylan McMahon (American football) .) Yeah, I ran into something similar. The ...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:55 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia in Real Time
- Replies: 2
- Views: 196
Wikipedia in Real Time
This is the end of the High Holy Days for NFL fans: the three days of the annual draft of college players into the league — when hope runs eternal and the cacophony of carping about the decision-making of general managers sounds like a factory farm in Arkansas for the production of starling eggs... ...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:15 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Universal CoC
- Replies: 290
- Views: 23394
Re: Universal CoC
I can't even spite vote in that shit, I don't know these people I was going to vote against everyone but Barkeep is on the list. And he really would try to make it work, bad idea as it may be. So then I went to the candidates' page and ... pretty much what you said. Why are we electing these people...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:18 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Was Maher fired?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 3985
Re: Was Maher fired?
Only if she can scam plane tickets from deep pockets...
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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:09 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Was Maher fired?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 3985
Re: Was Maher fired?
Another article from Christopher F. Rufo. Katherine Maher’s Color Revolution During the volatile Arab Spring period..., Maher went to multiple countries.... Beginning in 2011, for example, she traveled multiple times to Tunisia.... In 2012, she traveled to a strategic city on the Turkey-Syria borde...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:04 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Universal CoC
- Replies: 290
- Views: 23394
Re: Universal CoC
It took a surprisingly long time to click that many OPPOSE buttons. I need a stylus and a Wacom tablet or something.
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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:13 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Framming
- Replies: 21
- Views: 671
Re: Framming
Fram never showing here is actually one of the biggest surprises in the history of this site.
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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:48 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Spectator Australia: JK Rowling puts Wikipedia’s neutrality to the test
- Replies: 18
- Views: 578
Re: Spectator Australia: JK Rowling puts Wikipedia’s neutrality to the test
"A database that's built over time and continuously updated."
There you go.
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There you go.
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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:47 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Was Maher fired?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 3985
Re: Was Maher fired?
Matt Taibbi wrote a column about her a few days ago , but unfortunately you have to subscribe to his newsletter to read the whole thing. Katherine Maher, the new head of NPR, was a minor character in the Twitter Files. She was CEO of Wikimedia when the company was (like Twitter) being invited to el...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 2:59 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30993
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
I appreciate the compliment, gents, but me? sane?? (Anyway, my utter unsuitability aside, I refuse to identify to the WMF; not effing safe.) You don't need to identify. You just need to electronically sign the Wikimedia Foundation Confidentiality Agreement for Nonpublic Information . Yeah, see, now...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:42 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Answer these three questions about a random Wikipedia article and win a car
- Replies: 203
- Views: 2056
Re: Answer these three questions about a random Wikipedia article and win a car
1947 Gator Bowl 1. Not to me anyway 2. Taxslayer? 3. blank stare According to Gator Bowl TaxSlayer is the current sponsor. (That doesn't mean it is a good source.) I'm gonna stand up for a bowl game in 1947 as a YES to question 1 all day long. There were damned few bowls in that era. t
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:40 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Answer these three questions about a random Wikipedia article and win a car
- Replies: 203
- Views: 2056
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:27 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30993
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
..........and it's a time for a return of New York Brad, who is, of course, the best Arb ever.
Fram would also be fun. Can you imagine the sound of WMF shitting bricks in quadraphonic stereo???
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Fram would also be fun. Can you imagine the sound of WMF shitting bricks in quadraphonic stereo???
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- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:24 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Was Maher fired?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 3985
Re: Was Maher fired?
I feel about the same. My dislike of Maher is from her time at the WMF and the shitty way she acted during Framgate, which backfired on her pretty badly with the rank and file. I think what a lot of people find off-putting about her is the tendency to resort to vague buzzword-speak with no real sub...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:19 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30993
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:16 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30993
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
I also think Beebs/GenericUserName should change his name again to TotallyNotBeeblebrox (T-C-L) and should run for Arb Com again.
That would be most excellent.
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That would be most excellent.
t
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:56 pm
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3207
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. Raise the alarm instead of just swinging the hammer yourself. if somebody else, (or multiple somebodies) who was previously unaware of the issue is just as outraged, you got something like a consensus ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:25 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30993
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
We don't want Arbcom making new policy, that is not their job. Their job is to arbitrate protracted problems that the community CAN'T solve, and find solutions that are equitable and put the interests of the Project first, using existing policy as a basis. Policy changes should happen by consensus ...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:55 am
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3207
Re: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
*So here I am, outing someone again. Sure, someone practically asked me to do it, but I could have sent them a PM with the answer to their question, but I know that you want to know, too. Don't deny it. YOU....MONSTER! When will the pearl-clutching tear-dispenser crowd be along to pillory you for t...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 5:44 am
- Forum: Jimboland
- Topic: Wikipedia co-founder reveals new 'trustworthy' social media platform Trust Cafe
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2518
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:21 pm
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3207
Re: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
Having read the backstory, other than digging out the original Signpost article, I'm not quite certain whether this is the first AN/I party of the UCoC era or the 32,415th episode of Corbetian Game of Thrones. Probably the latter because UCoC was not invoked. I still want my Kumbaya Block ™ royalty ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3207
Re: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
I guess it is morning now, I will see if I get this typed up before Bennie demands dog frisbee and Bella wants her apple. 1. Care zero about this Jordan Peterson character. I've kind of assumed he's the new Milo — a far-right provocateur who is a bomb-thrower beloved by dumb people for "owning the l...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:50 am
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3207
Re: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
I've been collecting 25 cent royalties every time my phrase "San Fran Ban"™ is uttered. In my never-ending desire to keep those quarters rolling in, I'm gonna come up with a fresh trademarked expression for this, ummm, manhandling of our right-wing friend: this is a Kumbaya Block .™ Get used to dic...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:41 am
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
- Replies: 54
- Views: 3207
Re: Chris Troutman blocked for sexism
I've been collecting 25 cent royalties every time my phrase "San Fran Ban"™ is uttered. In my never-ending desire to keep those quarters rolling in, I'm gonna come up with a fresh trademarked expression for this, ummm, manhandling of our right-wing friend: this is a Kumbaya Block .™ Get used to dick...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 9:36 am
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: The rise and fall of a Wikipedia General
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1844
Re: The rise and fall of a Wikipedia General
Jake, you are being a rude host not welcoming Ahypori to WPO. This was, after all, just his third post — and I reckon that's a newcomer by any reasonable standard save account registration date...
Welcome to WPO!
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Welcome to WPO!
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- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:07 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Self-immolation of Maxwell Azzarello
- Replies: 9
- Views: 488
Re: Self-immolation of Maxwell Azzarello
And that is precisely why an Administrator can safely delete this article, citing WP:BLP. Weighing up the benefit to Wikipedia of keeping it compared to the potential distress caused to any relatives, is an easy calculation to make. Easy. It only requires one of Wikipedia's increasingly dwindling r...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:01 pm
- Forum: Biographies (BLPs) & Privacy
- Topic: Self-immolation of Maxwell Azzarello
- Replies: 9
- Views: 488
Re: Self-immolation of Maxwell Azzarello
During the current Trump court case, a man named Maxwell Azzarello lit himself on fire in a park near the court. ... All evidence suggests that Azzarello was mentally unwell. Ya think? I'm totally fine with WP serving its news aggregation function now, followed by the inevitable AfD challenge somew...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:59 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Undetected vandalism
- Replies: 207
- Views: 71598
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 5:39 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Wikipedia exposed on r/Destiny
- Replies: 26
- Views: 840
Re: Wikipedia exposed on r/Destiny
Welcome to WPO.
Now fuck off.
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Now fuck off.
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- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:19 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Was Maher fired?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 3985
Re: Was Maher fired?
excellent overview here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFkL4ME-8dQ Hey, that's a Molly White video! And the You Know Meter ™ is not ringing. Yaaaay. t P.S. Not sure I buy her conclusion that because the Right Wing onslaught against veracity in media is ongoing, therefore Maher is a good choice to ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:03 pm
- Forum: Sexism
- Topic: 100 condoms = 1 tampon
- Replies: 3
- Views: 165
Re: 100 condoms = 1 tampon
The Kraken at his best... But if you're gonna go with "bananas" for condom machines, I'd expect a more off-color metaphor.
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- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:49 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: The rise and fall of a Wikipedia General
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1844
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:22 am
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Naive ideas to improve en-wp
- Replies: 160
- Views: 17621
Re: Naive ideas to improve en-wp
Here's a naive idea: ban stubs. There was a time and place for stubs -- but that time is long past. If you can't write 250 referenced words or more about a subject, it isn't an encyclopedia article. Here's a completely random Colts season stub. Whattaya propose doing about that? https://en.wikipedi...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:16 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: “We love our charter, Oh Lord, we love our charter...”
- Replies: 7
- Views: 403
Re: “We love our charter, Oh Lord, we love our charter...”
It always irritates me when large organizations try to brand themselves as "a movement", or as we would say in Germany " eine Bewegung ". It always reminds me of the riddle "What was the brown object Beethoven left behind on his piano stool?" (Ans: His last movement.) Whydoya think they call it a "...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Answer these three questions about a random Wikipedia article and win a car
- Replies: 203
- Views: 2056
Re: Answer these three questions about a random Wikipedia article and win a car
1991 Akron Zips football team 1. Is it immediately obvious why Wikipedia has this article? (Yes/No) Has? Yes. Should? Heck no. 2. Is it immediately obvious you can trust this article? (Yes/No) No. 3. Is the article better than a trusted Wikipedia alternative might offer? (Yes/No/N.A) The article co...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:21 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Let's talk about religious editors
- Replies: 31
- Views: 951
Re: Let's talk about religious editors
The biggest obstacle to people "seeing the light" about atheism is that atheists tend to be as dogmatic and deeply unpleasant as the deeply pious. The cult of reason ain't any less of a cult. As far Wikipedia's coverage, I don't think every article needs to talk about the historicity of Jesus, but ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:15 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
- Replies: 793
- Views: 419957
Re: CFdJ - Clusterfucque du jour
rnu, 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. That's a fair question. The reason is that I no longer edit Wikipedia and have no intention of ever returning. Wikipedia is the most unwelcoming platform I h...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:10 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects - General Discussion
- Topic: Answer these three questions about a random Wikipedia article and win a car
- Replies: 203
- Views: 2056
Re: Answer these three questions about a random Wikipedia article and win a car
Okay, I'll play, although I disagree that you're still calling Wikipedia an "encyclopedia." In fact, it's an online information compendium for the profiteers to harvest and has little to do with yesterday's encyclopedia. Jack Welpott Biography of a dead person (1923–2007) 1. Is it immediately obviou...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30993
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
To review the Nihonjoe case: the edits were found to be pretty unproblematic, the lack of candor troubling, and the use of full protection buttons the main lasting issue. It's completely ridiculous busting a bureaucrat all the way to tenderfoot based on the actual evidence presented at that particu...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:07 am
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30993
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
:XD Rollback: denied Even rollback, which is usually dished out as confetti :D I probably would've granted that one, because who cares, anyone can use Twinkle and I find its rollback function far superior, but I also can't disagree with the given reason for denying it. Autopatrolled, on the other h...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:50 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: Was Maher fired?
- Replies: 79
- Views: 3985
Re: Was Maher fired?
WMF, doing WMF things.
Fuck 'em.
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Fuck 'em.
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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:47 pm
- Forum: Blog Posts
- Topic: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
- Replies: 818
- Views: 30993
Re: Nihonjoe Has Been Naughty
The mean kids are exactly that to kids kicked out of the clubhouse.
Why the hell would a former bureaucrat not have an autoconfirmed flag?!? That's just a fricking insult...
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Why the hell would a former bureaucrat not have an autoconfirmed flag?!? That's just a fricking insult...
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- Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
- Replies: 29
- Views: 964
Re: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
There is probably something also to the notion of building that is part of the allure of Wikipedia to Wikipedians. I'd be super-curious to learn how many Wikipedians are hardcore collectors. To me, at least, there seems to be a really close parallel to WP content-building and collection-building. I...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:04 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
- Replies: 29
- Views: 964
Re: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
There is probably something also to the notion of building that is part of the allure of Wikipedia to Wikipedians. I'd be super-curious to learn how many Wikipedians are hardcore collectors. To me, at least, there seems to be a really close parallel to WP content-building and collection-building. It...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:46 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
- Replies: 29
- Views: 964
Re: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
I think there are just some people out there who have like a very specific type of brain where Wikipedia just like sort of tickles it just right, and like doing that kind of editing and curation just appeals to me. I find it really enjoyable. What a verbose way to say, "autism." Close, but not exac...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
- Replies: 29
- Views: 964
Re: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
THANK YOU to Mr. Zoloft for the edit. Here is the money quote for me: So you've edited Wikipedia for about eighteen years. I think the simplest question is why do you still do it? Why did you start? Why do you continue? Well? I started because I was a curious kid who discovered that I could and that...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:46 am
- Forum: News and Media
- Topic: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
- Replies: 29
- Views: 964
Re: Molly White on Better Offline: Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left
Well, you know, that was pretty, you know, boring.
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P.S. Lest you think I am being, you know, mean — I count 145 instances of "you know" in an interview that runs less than 36 minutes, which works out to one "you know" every 15 seconds.
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P.S. Lest you think I am being, you know, mean — I count 145 instances of "you know" in an interview that runs less than 36 minutes, which works out to one "you know" every 15 seconds.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 10:02 pm
- Forum: Governance
- Topic: “We love our charter, Oh Lord, we love our charter...”
- Replies: 7
- Views: 403
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. It seems to me that this is an attempt to create an elected House of Lords, with about as much power. Visions of Dennis the Peasant with his elaborate system of governance for the anarcho...