This had been mentioned before, but now it's appearing on the Dot's front page. And OF COURSE they used sock accounts on WP to take a few pokes at the subject. https://www.dailydot.com/irl/tenebrae-wikipedia-peppermint/ Yes, I will concur, Frank "Tenebrae" Lovece is a gigantic asshole. Long history ...

Next Monday! Wacky fun! https://www.theverge.com/22302850/section-230-reform-internet-speech-moderation-platforms On Monday, March 1st, we’re holding an event on Section 230 and the future of tech regulation. After a keynote from Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), I’ll be sitting down with Wikimedia Foundat...

"Mike Stevens" sent me this garbage email TWICE today. They must be very desperate. Hello It's really important to understand the importance of online branding. What the internet speaks about you and your business is often considered the holy truth. Generating the right type and amount of exposure f...

Any insiders or longtime Wiki watchers will remember SPUI from the very early days. Real name Dan Moraseski, he was either ADHD or a truly dedicated troll.....people openly questioned his sanity, and whether he had gone off his meds or something. Arguments about him continued for years. His obsessio...

The can of worms that such a push would open, of course, is that Wikipedia editors are encouraged to remain anonymous. So, it would be impossible to know for certain that any editor who puts, "I'm an intersectional, transgender, feminist, non-binary, LGBT, person of color" on their userpage is real...

I don't make this shit up

(Also, the dumbfucks failed to add a more common meaning for TLB: Tractor/loader/backhoe--google it)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jenyire2 All that blather about Sweden, yet her userpage looked VERY different when she created it in May 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Jenyire2&oldid=899075779 Later that day she was "proudly" from Malaysia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index...

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"Masserati" lol. Another fine Wiki quotation to put on Jimbo's tombstone. He's gonna need a biiig one.

I found the user accounts "Binksternet", "Mark in wiki", "Materialscientist", "Richard3120", ''Kellymoat", ''Jusdafax'', ''RoCo'' and ''Jim1138'' so far. Will continue to update once I find more. Just for info, we are very familiar with Binksternet and Materialscientist. The latter is one of the wo...

Yes please---even if the diffs were oversighted, please give any details you have.