threads from 2019 https://wikipediasucks.co/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1451 https://wikipediasucks.co/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1149 2018 thread https://wikipediasucks.co/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=682 Remember that Wikirev was destroyed after only a couple of months. What little remains on archive...

Have some PREMIUM recent-event stupidity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immo ... _Azzarello

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... _Azzarello

Funny WPO thread about a podcast featuring Molly claiming that "Wikipedia is all there is left of the internet" or something..... https://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13477 The transcript is a formless horror, so I edited out 146 instances of 'you know' - broke it up into readable ch...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thacker_Pass_Lithium_Mine Started in 2013 when the mine was first proposed. It was a "stub" that no one paid attention to--until 2021, when the media coverage and political/legal wranging went full-throttle. It is now 97k bytes long, one of Wikipedia's longest articles ...

Sorry to hear it. He was unquestionably annoying quite often and had some kooky ideas, but did considerable useful work for those ungrateful Wikipedians.

Eric, can you dig up your book wiki notes about Katherine Maher? There isn't a lot in there, that wasn't already posted on this forum. She came along late in the history. By that time I'd given up on keeping track of the endless revolving door of obscure figures. But here's the main gist of it. She...

WWCR. Sign On And USA News. 2024-03-19 T 15-06-03 Z 12160.0kHz https://archive.org/details/wwcr.-sign-on-and-usa-news.-2024-03-19-t-15-06-03-z-12160.0k-hz (6 mins.) "Give yourself a mouthwatering treat! Go to www.omahasteaks.com!" Wonder how effective advertising on a Christian shortwave station re...

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1780962477011796287 He's one to talk. Mr. Free Speech But Not for People I Don't Like. EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says that she abandoned a "free and open" internet as the mission of Wikipedia, because those principles recapitulated a "white male Westernized cons...

Meanwhile meanwhile, there was a WPO thread . Which started in January wondering if the WMF board fired Maher. They are barely mentioning this new NPR development, because "meh, it's just right-wing media trash". Not exactly true. Katherine is an exceptional bullshit artist. When properly motivated....

Is someone starting to snipe at Eric Jepson? You betcha.....Drmies is. Jepson's talkpage was already filling up with people criticizing him for posting non-notable or junk articles. But when this happens..... https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Thmazing&oldid=1217727978#Topic_ban Du...