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by ericbarbour
Sat Jun 28, 2025 9:53 pm
Forum: Kumioko's Korner
Topic: Are other Wikis such as JustPedia, ConservePedia & InfoGalaxy connected to Wikimedia?
Replies: 14
Views: 13323

Re: Are other Wikis such as JustPedia, ConservePedia & InfoGalaxy connected to Wikimedia?

just look at Gary "Gerhard" Lauck's NSDAP/AO website. It's down today. Wonder how many DDOS attacks it gets. I never see it down, but then I rarely look at it. I checked right now and it's up. Down right now. The WP articles are funny, unintentionally. What a maroon. 50+ years of marooning, several...
by ericbarbour
Sat Jun 28, 2025 5:57 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Do not frequent some certain default subs if you don't wanna get banned while criticizing Wikipedia on Reddit
Replies: 9
Views: 7310

Re: Do not frequent some certain default subs if you don't wanna get banned while criticizing Wikipedia on Reddit

At the risk of repeating myself, I repeat myself:

CHOOSE ONE SUBREDDIT AND PUT ALL YOUR EFFORT INTO IT. Nothing is accomplished by making 5 or 6 subs with the same focus, then letting them die out due to lack of interest.
by ericbarbour
Sat Jun 28, 2025 4:25 am
Forum: Political
Topic: "Tenet Media never existed"
Replies: 4
Views: 5936

Re: "Tenet Media never existed"

Then you might enjoy reading about this guy, the "alleged molester of Nick Fuentes" or whatever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Alexander

The American right just gets more and more demented. And unintentionally funny.
by ericbarbour
Sat Jun 28, 2025 3:48 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: This perfectly describes Wikipedia's collapse
Replies: 6
Views: 162

Re: This perfectly describes Wikipedia's collapse

Alt right influencers panning Wikipedia for being too easily influenced by an editor with pedophilia leanings. https://x.com/echetus/status/1938243341982044306 Elon Musk is now aware of it. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1938363651364426229 That was only yesterday. I could tell these "angry libertar...
by ericbarbour
Sat Jun 28, 2025 1:27 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Hostile BLPs
Replies: 5
Views: 416

Re: Hostile BLPs

They COULD have a hostile BLP about Joel Koskan. But they have nothing, probably because he never won an election. A "pillar of the community" and Republican politician, convicted of incest? Normally one of their "socially aware" nerds would be all over this. The "rules" are not really rules at all-...
by ericbarbour
Fri Jun 27, 2025 9:18 pm
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: This popped into my YouTube feed a day ago...
Replies: 3
Views: 67

Re: This popped into my YouTube feed a day ago...

The Penn Central makes a great target for satire. Once among the largest railroads in the world, crashed into the ground by savagely incompetent management despite having a near-license to print money. More people should take shots at the "Pennsy". (Of course they won't as it's now "ancient history"...
by ericbarbour
Fri Jun 27, 2025 9:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: This perfectly describes Wikipedia's collapse
Replies: 6
Views: 162

Re: This perfectly describes Wikipedia's collapse

All I can say is: Big Whoop. Musk has no say over Wikipedia , he is allegedly desperately trying to keep Tesla afloat (but if he's wasting time on ex-Twitter , then he knows his car company is sunk), he shot any remaining goodwill with his Roman salute antics and DOGE. Hope you're right, although a...
by ericbarbour
Fri Jun 27, 2025 8:52 pm
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: WPO talks about the AI storm
Replies: 2
Views: 132

Re: WPO talks about the AI storm

The AI issue is going to be the biggest one at WP over the next five years. The hatred for generative AI among Wikipedians is palpable; and the desire for WMF engineering careerists to add AI-something-something to their resume is irresistible... And Jimmy Wales is an absolutely unprincipled weeble...
by ericbarbour
Fri Jun 27, 2025 8:35 pm
Forum: Political
Topic: "Tenet Media never existed"
Replies: 4
Views: 5936

Re: "Tenet Media never existed"

Might as well add a bit of trivia: Tim Pool's "career" is the butt of a million Russian-asset and bad-pundit memes all over social media. His multiple YT channels and podcasts continue raking in good money--but most people (who have even heard of him!) seem to consider him a joke. One could say the ...
by ericbarbour
Mon Jun 23, 2025 3:04 am
Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
Topic: AI lays another Wiki-Egg
Replies: 7
Views: 269

Re: AI lays another Wiki-Egg

Two weeks later and the SAS project was "paused" so they could run "surveys". And you can guess how well THAT went. Further babbling here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Simple_summaries:_editor_survey_and_2-week_mobile_study They were actually, seriously talking ab...