Re: WMF Endowment
Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2021 11:55 am
So ... your "memory" and "belief" trump raw data, huh? This is precisely the problem with Wikipedia. I've been working on a piece about the history of vaccination. Where'd I hear that "memory" and "belief" are more credible than raw hard data? Oh, yeah - the antivaxxers have been saying that since the day Jenner opened his first vaccination clinic.Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑Sun Apr 18, 2021 3:19 pmI wrote several paragraphs making the case for this but then decided it wasn't worth the bother. Let's agree to disagree on whether Wikipedia is slowly winding down (by which I mean that it is in decline, losing power like wind-up clockwork toy, not closing itself up as an entity).
Remember that time where you quoted Jimbo out of context so thoroughly as to reverse the meaning of what he said? I didn't say what you claim I said.I didn't say Wikipedia should make a Google-style search and said exactly the opposite: they should make a limited search, something vastly more focused. This would be easier than keeping up a whole Wiki - search results would be 20 or so links, max, to external sites plus the initial link to Wikipedia. That's far less information to manage.
No - I remember that I put an entire quote in with Jimbo using the term bankruptcy which he shouldn't have and that follows a long, long pattern of overtly or covertly claiming poverty which is entirely untrue. Maher was recently on The Daily Show sans disclosure the wife of Wikimedia's PR firm, Minassian Media, works there. Trevor said "you often struggle to have enough money to keep Wikipedia running" and she smiled and nodded and didn't say a word to refute that ... which is exactly the same pattern we see from them again and again and again.
That's my memory of what was going on at the time and still my belief.Traffic to Wikipedia's English site is up over the past five years: https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-proje ... al|monthly. The data doesn't support worrying about Google's infoboxes though it does make, like many other things, a fine way to spook people into donating.