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by badmachine
Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:21 pm
Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
Topic: Jimmy wales launching a twitter and facebook rival
Replies: 18
Views: 9345

Re: Jimmy wales launching a twitter and facebook rival

wt.social now returns a 500 error: SSL handshake failed Cloudflare is unable to establish an SSL connection to the origin server. Ray ID: 8660add45c6a08ec Your IP address: *.*.*.* Error reference number: 525 Cloudflare Location: Los Angeles (censored my IP with stars) trustcafe.io does not return an...
by badmachine
Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:07 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 480
Views: 184831

Re: Crap or questionable articles

Wanna see a 2019 editwar that resulted in nothing but a tagged article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Medicaid_Estate_Recovery_Program FYI: nearly the entire article was written by NormSpier . Exactly the type of editor Wikipedia really needs more of. He tried to write an article about the MER...
by badmachine
Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:38 pm
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Wikipedia Admins to be Noted
Replies: 4
Views: 100

Re: Wikipedia Admins to be Noted

the most biased article ive seen on wikipedia is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump most biased policy or policy-like thing is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_Nazis ... the wikipedians will say 'JUST AN ESSAY NOT POLICY' yet this 'essay' gets thro...
by badmachine
Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:31 am
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Wikipedia trannies beauty show
Replies: 22
Views: 2000

Re: Wikipedia trannies beauty show

an interesting thing happened about a month ago: curprev 23:45, 8 February 2024‎ Ingenuity talk contribs‎ m 775 bytes 0‎ Ingenuity moved page User:Brion VIBBER to User:Brooke Vibber: Automatically moved page while renaming the user "Brion VIBBER" to "Brooke Vibber" undo Ms Vibber is an employee of w...
by badmachine
Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:56 am
Forum: WMF staff/contractors and developers
Topic: Graphs don't work because WMF developers are idiots
Replies: 13
Views: 2627

Re: Graphs don't work because WMF developers are idiots

They disabled graphs almost TEN MONTHS AGO. And STILL no evident progress. On the Phabricator page, for the past 2 months all they have done is jabber at each other. "Why can't we do this" and "why can't we do that" blah blah blah. According to the category, there are now 18,296 articles with broke...
by badmachine
Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:31 am
Forum: WMF staff/contractors and developers
Topic: Graphs don't work because WMF developers are idiots
Replies: 13
Views: 2627

Re: Graphs don't work because WMF developers are idiots

not much has happened with this, and this email from Marshall Miller is causing complaints at the Phabricator page . the email from Miller makes it seem like no fix is coming, and that they instead are working on "dark mode" lol 6 Feb 2024 5:10 p.m. Hi everyone – My name is Marshall Miller, I am a S...
by badmachine
Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:40 pm
Forum: Political
Topic: Political bias and squabbling
Replies: 39
Views: 7363

Re: Political bias and squabbling

Al-Rashid humanitarian aid incident large squabble on the talk page over the article title. it was briefly moved to "Al-Rashid massacre" after a snowstorm of support, but this morning it has been moved back to Al-Rashid humanitarian aid incident. already two sections have been 'hatted', and some no...
by badmachine
Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:27 pm
Forum: WMF staff/contractors and developers
Topic: WikiProject X
Replies: 23
Views: 10518

Re: WikiProject X

Special:Diff/948293827
{{WikiProject status|defunct|note=See the [[m:Grants:Project/WikiProject X/CollaborationKit MVP/Final|'''final report''']] for more information.
:shrug:
by badmachine
Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:51 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Replies: 339
Views: 179613

Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible

And now, for a small prophecy. I predict that you will never see a mention of this story in the Sergey Brin article. Because he is a co-founder of Google and Wikipedia sucks up to Google on an "unofficial yet pervasive" basis. Have a nice day. 22:54, 5 January 2014 Mark Arsten talk contribs configu...
by badmachine
Mon Feb 19, 2024 1:39 am
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: Koavf reverts Doug Weller's revert to Antifa, Bishonen blocks Koavf, and many accusations of trolling and "admin abuse"
Replies: 19
Views: 909

Re: Koavf reverts Doug Weller's revert to Antifa, Bishonen blocks Koavf, and many accusations of trolling and "admin abu

im not sure but Boing's recent contribs make it seem like he is done with wikipedia. this remark sure looks like the thrill is gone. big if true, and congratulations to him, if he sticks to it.