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by ericbarbour
Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:59 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: A 700 million dollar $ Wikipedia paid editing scandal
Replies: 2
Views: 3519

Re: A 700 million dollar $ Wikipedia paid editing scandal

Hochman is a bullshit artist. And not an especially good one either.
by ericbarbour
Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:57 am
Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
Topic: Boring...."Wikipedia bans the Daily Mail as a source"
Replies: 4
Views: 3899

Re: Boring...."Wikipedia bans the Daily Mail as a source"

Lol

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/03/that-v ... ally-fake/

The DM makes it up AND OTHER OUTLETS REPEAT IT. That is the problem--not that the DM is fast and loose.
Wikipedia is no better than its sources--and "good" sources are more difficult to find than Wikipedians seem to realize.
by ericbarbour
Sun Mar 05, 2017 11:49 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: [Paid editing by Foundation insiders] Anthere (Flo Devouard)
Replies: 1
Views: 2441

Re: [Paid editing by Foundation insiders] Anthere (Flo Devou

Thanks, I'm adding this to the book notes. Had not looked at her post-Director history very closely.
by ericbarbour
Sun Mar 05, 2017 7:30 am
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: The WO blog is now nearly moribund.....
Replies: 17
Views: 12570

Re: The WO blog is now nearly moribund.....

Flip Flopped wrote:Also, do you want the blog posts archived with archive dot is?

That would be helpful, although it might be better to save them as HTML files locally. PM me and we will hook up via email so you can forward copies.
by ericbarbour
Sun Mar 05, 2017 7:25 am
Forum: Wikipedians
Topic: WP Admin Floquenbeam
Replies: 21
Views: 14939

Re: WP Admin Floquenbeam seems to be mentally unbalanced

Oh, if only you could figure out more about both Floq and Rambling Man.....there's an ugly little story here that isn't being told, because their fellow Wikipedians would rather be tortured in a dungeon than to fink on some of their friends. Rambling Man has been up to some really outrageous activit...
by ericbarbour
Sun Mar 05, 2017 6:41 am
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: Criticism of Libertarianism
Replies: 12
Views: 9227

Re: Criticism of Libertarianism

The question for us is what test this textbook and this course present to us. The very libertarian-friendly state of Arizona has a public university with a center funded by the Charles Koch Foundation that provides free-market ideology courses to high school students under the rubric of philosophy....
by ericbarbour
Sun Mar 05, 2017 5:45 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Replies: 344
Views: 190944

Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible

m Almost entirely the work of one Robinhaddad . Who? m Ali welcomes Dr. Lorenzo Cohen director of the Integrative Medicine Program at MD Anderson Cancer Center and his colleague Robin Haddad, doctoral candidate in health promotion and behavior science to discuss the direction of cancer treatment and...
by ericbarbour
Sat Mar 04, 2017 10:16 pm
Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
Topic: "Cartoon cat’s gender identity launched a Wikipedia war"
Replies: 6
Views: 4726

Re: "Cartoon cat’s gender identity launched a Wikipedia war"

Let me be clear, Garfield is not the beginning of newspaper cartoon badness; that started when the space for comics got smaller and smaller, and you saw a lot more of the three-panel gag strips, and many of them lasted long enough to become "zombie" strips where the creator handed it off ...
by ericbarbour
Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Daily Mail
Replies: 10
Views: 8046

Re: Daily Mail hits back at Wikipedia/Wikimedia

(no wonder WMF's litigation is increasing exponentially) And you will NEVER read ANY serious discussion of this, anywhere online. Especially not on Wikimedia's websites. All you can find is this , which is pathetically incomplete. It's one of the happy little things Mike Godwin and Philippe Beaudet...
by ericbarbour
Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:09 pm
Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
Topic: Boring...."Wikipedia bans the Daily Mail as a source"
Replies: 4
Views: 3899

Re: Boring...."Wikipedia bans the Daily Mail as a source"

This is how Ed Buckner and I ultimately summarized it for the book notes. January 2017: Wikipedia editors voted to ban the Daily Mail as a source for the website in all but exceptional circumstances after deeming the news group “generally unreliable”. The absurdity was started by Hillbillyholiday, a...