The alternative theory, that donors pony up the cash because they think Wikipedia is useful, only serves to remind people of just how many people who have used Wikipedia, have determined its correct market value as a service provider...... I personally know someone who used to do that. A woman marr...

CMAwatch wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 28, 2019 12:33 am

That does not sound so logical to me.

Obviously, because Wikipedia policy does not function on logic.

I think it's an outlier. So many admins have been leaving and so few joining that the Wikipedia admin procedure had collapsed. It was so low, that it was really only a matter of time until this happened. Unless it happens for a few months in a row though, it doesn't really mean anything. But this m...

This months it seems more administrators were approved/re-syspossed than the number of those de-sysopped. Any thoughts on where this is going to lead?

Has the decline hit the rock bottom?

If a user started making legitimatepy good contributions, where is the point in keeping him blocked? Because it's content that some other bum doesn't like, even if it's 100% reliably sourced. From then on, the user can subjugate content to the democratic system and distort it by distorting the poli...

Just to clarify I didn't make that comment, but what is true is IP is only the first step if the investigation is inconclusive. There's a number of aspects besides IP and behavioral evidence they use to identify a potential sock. Serial sock-puppeteers I know and from my own experience with this pr...

Why would they trust him? He lacks judgement as an administrator so how would he make a trustable CU?

Wikipedia primarily tracks socks using cookies now. That's FALSE. WP does not track socks with cookies, only block evasion. Tracking socks - correctly: alternative accounts, unless abused for voting and consensus manipulation - with cookies would be a preemptive measure to prevent socking by non-pr...

This advice is out of date. Wikipedia primarily tracks socks using cookies now. So clear 'em. I seriously doubt they ever really used IP addresses as the primary identifier. It's always been User Agent strings and behavioral cues. Partially correct. Range also counts in. They also have access to ot...

JuiceBeetle wrote:Interesting reference to Robert McClenon on SilkTork's ArbCom nomination:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2018/Candidates/SilkTork/Questions#Questions_from_Collect

Where's he mentioned? Which paragraph?