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- Tue Jan 21, 2025 4:49 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is Wikipedia culture dead? Wikipedia is a ghost town.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 53
Re: Is Wikipedia culture dead? Wikipedia is a ghost town.
Well, as you probably know, I did an analysis of edit patterns, and found that WP editing peaked in total quantitites in 2009. Despite repeated attempts to trick people with bot edits and incessant begging for money, total edit counts are unquestionably well down from the golden era of the late 2000...
- Fri Jan 17, 2025 9:38 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Cla68's doomsday scenario about Wikipedia begins to become reality
- Replies: 62
- Views: 39486
Re: Cla68's doomsday scenario about Wikipedia begins to become reality
Oh, they just HAD to tell us, AGAIN, that "wikipedia is not a battleground" and "Wikipedia is not a forum" and "WP:OWN" and "disruptive editing is oooohhhhh FROWNED UPON gobble gobble blah blah", all that LYING STINKING BULLSHIT we've heard a million times before. WP is all those things and more bec...
- Thu Jan 16, 2025 12:04 am
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Crap or questionable articles
- Replies: 534
- Views: 336184
Re: Crap or questionable articles
Remember this from last year? The Hybrid vehicle article has similar jabber, not to mention poor sourcing, outdated sections, and a LOT of repetition. This HAS to be the result of bot editing. Stupid bastards don't know or care that their bots are generating hash. Under "Vehicle types": In 1978 stud...
- Mon Jan 13, 2025 3:28 am
- Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
- Topic: Re: Scientology Thread
- Replies: 22
- Views: 21671
Re: Scientology Thread
Forgot to post this a week ago, but Mike Rinder, ex-Scientologist and former Office of Special Affairs* goon of David Miscavige (head of the "church") has passed away from undisclosed causes, but in 2023 it was announced that Mike had esophageal cancer. The guy is dead, and they're still attacking ...
- Mon Jan 13, 2025 3:10 am
- Forum: Misc
- Topic: California fires
- Replies: 3
- Views: 104
Re: California fires
it just keeps getting worse I dunno....there's an old joke that LA is "Chicago with palm trees", same kinds of governmental corruption/incompetence, same sort of "policing", and the same sort of racial bigotry and so forth. I'd EXPECT the "great leaders of that great city" to do batshit things. Onl...
- Mon Jan 13, 2025 3:03 am
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Crap or questionable articles
- Replies: 534
- Views: 336184
Re: Crap or questionable articles
And if Wikipedia is NOTNEWS, and they claim WP is not a "celebrity gossip tabloid", then why does the fire's article contain a very long quote by actor Steve Guttenberg? Lots of entertainment people are losing their homes in this fire--because they tend to cluster around West LA, Beverly Hills, Pac...
- Sat Jan 11, 2025 3:00 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2247
Re: Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
Most of it has little to do with Israel, antisemitism, anti-Zionism and other topics the Heritage Foundation wants to play white knight over. Scientology was a bigger topic when the Barbour- Peter Damien private Wiki was first compiled, but that said, Israel-Palastine was part of the general patter...
- Fri Jan 10, 2025 7:04 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Elon Musk re-offers Wikimedia 1 Billion USD to rename Wikipedia to "Dickipedia" for a year
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8748
Re: Elon Musk re-offers Wikimedia 1 Billion USD to rename Wikipedia to "Dickipedia" for a year
Twitter is where right-wing assholes hang out thanks to Musk, and some of them are involved with the forthcoming Trump omnishambles "administration", so of course journos are hanging around. Yes, I get that. Problem is when they foolishly take what they see in there as "factual". Musk is doing all ...
- Thu Jan 09, 2025 1:15 am
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Crap or questionable articles
- Replies: 534
- Views: 336184
Re: Crap or questionable articles
Can we all agree one thing: that WP:NOTNEWS is a stinking lie ? Because the Palisades fire is still burning as I write this, and will probably burn for a couple more days. And it is practically guaranteed that more deaths will be recorded, since whole neighborhoods were evacuated and blocked off. It...
- Wed Jan 08, 2025 8:11 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Molly White is running a blog bitching about NFTs and crypto
- Replies: 87
- Views: 48420
Re: Molly White is running a blog bitching about NFTs and crypto
Side note: Molly's getting a bit lazy, not as many updates to her blog as in the past--not like the "golden years" of 2021-22. Crypto news sites that Molly uses as sources, like Coindesk, Cryptoslate and theblock.co, are usually full of "negative news" about crypto. Arrests and prosecutions are rout...