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by ericbarbour
Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:50 pm
Forum: Political
Topic: Instances of pro-Russian bias in Wikipedia?
Replies: 8
Views: 422

Re: Instances of pro-Russian bias in Wikipedia?

As I mentioned in the other thread , the Putin regime has started its own Wikipedia. They even hired a Wikimedia Russia director to run it. Quality Incoming! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruwiki_(website) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_RU Why? Because someone was threatening the operators o...
by ericbarbour
Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:24 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Replies: 341
Views: 182867

Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/209.244.43.57 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/204.97.104.30 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/209.244.43.61 What do they have in common? https://xtools.wmcloud.org/articleinfo/en.wikipedia.org/Jonathan_Bing Als...
by ericbarbour
Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:24 pm
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: Thoughts on Reddit?
Replies: 71
Views: 42909

Re: Thoughts on Reddit?

"monetizing our user base" Ha ha ha. Come on, don't tell me you are "surprised" by this. https://www.404media.co/reddit-we-are-in-the-early-stages-of-monetizing-our-user-base-2/ And right there on the sidebar next to it, AI-generated fake books: https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-kara-swisher-biog...
by ericbarbour
Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:08 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 482
Views: 188426

Re: Crap or questionable articles

WikiNits love to talk about military history and aerospace, which relates heavily to the military. But it doesn't appear they like to talk about commercial space companies other than SpaceX (and then only because of Musk and his endless harassing of employees to work harder .) Varda's first spacecra...
by ericbarbour
Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:58 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: "Wikipedia data dump now on the Moon"
Replies: 5
Views: 12369

Re: "Wikipedia data dump now on the Moon"

Bbb23sucks wrote:
Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:10 pm
Also, isn't hilarious that it had to be seekret for no reason at all?
Scott Manley made a video and comment on them trying to cover things up:
https://youtu.be/wynBeg7BYr0?t=631
by ericbarbour
Tue Feb 27, 2024 8:05 pm
Forum: WMF staff/contractors and developers
Topic: WikiProject X
Replies: 23
Views: 10833

Re: WikiProject X

That's how they "manage projects".

-Announce it with press releases and rah-rah-rah from the editing addicts.

-Eventually the project fails. The failure is quietly covered up--unless it resulted in a massive on-wiki fight, then they CAN'T hide it.
by ericbarbour
Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:52 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: "Wikipedia data dump now on the Moon"
Replies: 5
Views: 12369

Re: "Wikipedia data dump now on the Moon"

Remember: that is the lander that fell over at touchdown and is probably going to stop working shortly. No idea if this archive survived the flight, or the crash, or if it will survive a billion years or whatever.
by ericbarbour
Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:32 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Replies: 341
Views: 182867

Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible

only 3637 articles use pending changes out of 6,788,239. that sounds like special treatment to me. but also included in ^that category is America, August 31, and Bubble gum. very weird :shrug: It was editwarred and vandalized quite a lot, but I also get the impression that one needs "special dispen...
by ericbarbour
Sat Feb 24, 2024 1:22 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Replies: 341
Views: 182867

Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible

And now, for a small prophecy.

I predict that you will never see a mention of this story in the Sergey Brin article.

Because he is a co-founder of Google and Wikipedia sucks up to Google on an "unofficial yet pervasive" basis.

Have a nice day.
by ericbarbour
Fri Feb 23, 2024 8:14 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Why We Hate Wikipedia / Ten things you probably didn't know about Wikipedia
Replies: 33
Views: 53127

Re: Why We Hate Wikipedia / Ten things you probably didn't know about Wikipedia

Bbb23sucks wrote:
Fri Feb 23, 2024 7:12 pm
I don't think you can in stickied threads for some reason.
Thanks for reminding me--it was disabled for unknown reasons...just enabled it.