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- Wed Sep 16, 2020 7:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Google synchronises with Wikipedia near-instantly.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1571
Google synchronises with Wikipedia near-instantly.
A few months ago, on public transport, I have seen someone added a section to an article (can't remember which article). A few minutes later, just out of curiosity, I searched that article on Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Qwant. Unlike all the others, Google listed that new section as a shortc...
- Wed Sep 16, 2020 6:01 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: G5'ing: How to get someone else's Wikipedia account blocked and all his articles deleted without direct account access!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11449
CheckUser disclosure bait!
Another vulnerability of their CheckUser system: When one gets caught by a CheckUser (whether actual sock or false positive), they usually ask one to disclose all accounts (e.g. see here ). One may be able to jeopardize an uninvolved user's acconut by claiming to be them, but having been editing fr...
- Mon Sep 14, 2020 1:39 am
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Jason Scott: Criticizing Wikipedia, but has a dark side too.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13845
Kyan lives.
After all the drama in 2016, and years of inactivity, Kyan has actually been editing in 2020 and is not blocked:
http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title= ... tions/Kyan
Maybe Jason Scott can't remember that 2016 scolding.
http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title= ... tions/Kyan
Maybe Jason Scott can't remember that 2016 scolding.
- Sun Sep 13, 2020 10:33 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Embarassing user names: Destroying a Wikipedian's reputation and humiliating him.
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1515
Embarassing user names: Destroying a Wikipedian's reputation and humiliating him.
Long-term Wikipedians have a lot to lose, thanks to Wikipedia's paranoid CheckUser system. Even if the block later turns out to be a mistake, or just very short, it will leave traces on that user's perception of Wikipedia. See Prahlad Balaji for an example of the latter. On how to bait CheckUsers: s...
- Sun Sep 13, 2020 9:01 pm
- Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
- Topic: Thoughts on Reddit?
- Replies: 71
- Views: 42946
Re: Article: Criticism of Reddit – What's missing?
Here is a new article about criticism of Reddit, hosted on an inclusionist wiki (EverybodyWiki), which appears to be run by sane people. →→→ https://en.everybodywiki.com/Criticism_of_Reddit ←←← If there is anything missing from the article, post it here or let me know. There is a metric fuckton of ...
- Sun Sep 13, 2020 10:02 am
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Users retiring from Wikipedia
- Replies: 19
- Views: 29992
Prahlad Balaji's DOUBLE rage quit retirement
On September 9, administrator Sro23 (name suspiciously simular to you know who , but at least he uses the thank feature at all) imposed a 48-Hour partial block on a 2016-joined editor, ◊PRAHLAD balaji . This block smashed his ego so much that he retired less than 3 days later. Then he unretired afte...
- Sun Sep 13, 2020 9:51 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: slobbering for money AGAIN
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5557
Re: slobbering for money AGAIN
It's getting to the point where they are running these stupid things on a quarterly basis. And no way to predict when the begging starts/stops. Screenshot_2020-09-10 Pan Am Flight 1104 - Wikipedia.png I won't even think about donating 1 £/€/¥/$, as long as Wikipedia is a WP:G5 and WP:G13 deletionis...
- Fri Sep 11, 2020 2:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Full list of WMF Wiki URLs by Guy Macon
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3363
Full list of WMF Wiki URLs by Guy Macon
Guy (not JzG, but that WP:YWAB guy) has created yet another sub page of interest:
Wiki URLs
Just posting it here in case anyone is interested
Wiki URLs
Just posting it here in case anyone is interested
- Wed Sep 09, 2020 2:03 am
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Users retiring from Wikipedia
- Replies: 19
- Views: 29992
Users retiring from Wikipedia
I found something I would like to share: This user retired due to deletionism. That's it. Remember that some users have user boxes showing off they're deletionists! Fine. Make a deletionist platform. But then, stop misleading advertising like The sum of all knowledge Utter bullshit, as long as they ...
- Tue Sep 08, 2020 1:05 pm
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Jason Scott: Criticizing Wikipedia, but has a dark side too.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13845
Jason Scott blocked Sfan00 in 2014
SketchCoward who can not handle criticism sits in front of the same computer he created his Twitter account with, with a Muriel premium cigar in his mouth. He find out that a new user named Sfan00 has added a page to ArchiveTeam's wiki: https://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Usenet&oldid=18333 It a...