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by ericbarbour
Wed Nov 04, 2020 8:05 pm
Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
Topic: The Percepto story
Replies: 4
Views: 2535

Re: The Percepto story

sashi wrote:
Tue Nov 03, 2020 6:45 am
Hm, got history, Eric? You seem to have a starring role as a Wikipediot in Stephen Harrison's "ever developing" web-friction.
Ha ha, that's awful. Wish there was an award for Worst Fanfiction. Even WP addicts would find it tedious.
by ericbarbour
Mon Nov 02, 2020 10:56 pm
Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
Topic: Theresa Greenfield: The Shitshow
Replies: 0
Views: 1459

Theresa Greenfield: The Shitshow

You know there's a problem with abusive insiders when it ends up in WIRED magazine. https://www.wired.com/story/the-senate-race-that-could-be-pivotal-for-america-and-wikipedia/ Plus http://web.archive.org/web/20201027183733/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/27/senate-candidate-theresa-...
by ericbarbour
Mon Nov 02, 2020 2:28 am
Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
Topic: The Percepto story
Replies: 4
Views: 2535

The Percepto story

So far I've only seen this mentioned in Israeli media. (Someone needs to read my material about Israel-Palestine editwarring. This shit has been happening on Wikipedia since the damn thing started.) https://www.timesofisrael.com/wikipedia-probe-exposes-an-israeli-stealth-pr-firm-that-worked-for-scam...
by ericbarbour
Mon Nov 02, 2020 12:05 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 482
Views: 188632

Re: Crap or questionable articles

From a friend: From the WP article on BoPET— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoPET "The Descent stage of the apollo's lunar module is covered in BoPET because it's lightweight and made sure the inside temperature of the inside of the desecent [sic] stage (where a significant amount of apperature [sic]...
by ericbarbour
Sat Oct 31, 2020 7:54 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 482
Views: 188632

Re: Crap or questionable articles

Like African subjects or obscure insect species, Wikipedia's content about notable recording studios is extremely variable/crap/nonexistent. List of British recording studios leaves out a lot of minor operations. Some of the articles listed there ( like this ) are blatant self-promotion. There is no...
by ericbarbour
Sat Oct 31, 2020 3:58 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: WMF bans more frequently than ever before.
Replies: 28
Views: 15293

Re: WMF bans more frequently than ever before.

Also screw Wee Billy Burns and the rest of the Wikipediocracy crew remaining. It's the one thing i hate the most about Wiki-criticism sites are how frikkin' clannish they are.....there's a lot of childish nonsense going on, most of it petty and emotional. Also remember that NO ONE ELSE was preparin...
by ericbarbour
Fri Oct 30, 2020 1:56 am
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread
Replies: 351
Views: 172712

Re: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread

A week before the election, and the creators of South Park put out this video. They used top-rate deepfake software to turn actors into Trump and his family. Plus Zuckerberg as the "Dialysis King of Wyoming" or something 9WfZuNceFDM Skip to 11:35 to see "Sassy Don" talking to a very weird Jared Kush...
by ericbarbour
Fri Oct 30, 2020 12:58 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: WMF bans more frequently than ever before.
Replies: 28
Views: 15293

Re: King kong92: A failed comeback

1. Then Wikipedia is doomed, because it cannot change with how the Internet is changing. You had a chart. Mr. Barbour, of how the number of Wikipedians was falling and I think the bottom-out point was either in 2022 or in 2019. That it still trundles on is a minor miracle. Ah, you must mean THESE c...
by ericbarbour
Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:45 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
Replies: 341
Views: 183006

Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible

This is REALLY insulting. And she did it in 2009-2010. And no one said anything. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamilloyd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/KamiLloyd So where are the usual paid-edit-bad nerds and the sockpuppet killers.....did Sutter Health make a donation to the WMF ...
by ericbarbour
Tue Oct 27, 2020 7:40 am
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Josh Gordon and eBay
Replies: 21
Views: 11302

Re: Josh Gordon and eBay

Josh must have been warned off or something: there's now a separate article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_stalking_scandal

And there's one editor basically doing nothing else

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:C ... Truthchild