https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... 7-31/Essay
Lazy bastard Kupdung has just selected "Wikipedia does not need you" as the featured essay in the SignPost. The lazy bastard is a lazy bastard because he has simply reprinted it with this dollop of wisdom.....
Sorry to tell you Kupdung, but you have got this one wrong.Written in 2012 by Drmies, this essay is as apt today as it was then
Anyone paying attention to how the grass grows in the wiki, and that is clearly not Kupdung, despite his regular self promotion as the resident sage, will have noticed that in the last three years, it has become increasingly common that when an editor is banned or otherwise leaves, it's no longer really the case that things carry on, albeit less smoothly or elegantly.
Wikipedia is dying. That is why it is easier and easier these days, to find an article slowly rotting away, or an activity not getting done, meaning shit is piling up next to the associated dumpster.
The Wikipedia community has been eagerly trying to jettison seemingly uneeded stuff recently, most notably all Portals. The reason? The loss of critical mass, which means more and more shit is getting abandoned, permanently. This is also why the SignPost itself has become a running joke, limping from revival to revival, as one commenter notes.
The implication of the essay, if we take it as meaning what it says, despite the painfully unfunny funny tone, is that when Drmies wrote it way back in 2012, he had some evidence to back it up, and so could back it up again like Kuldung claims. Now, does that sound like something he does? Or could do? No, it does not. Ask him. He'll bullshit you, I guarantee it. He was most likely talking out of his ass back then, giving his opinion as if it were fact, because you know fine well that's what he does best.
Then irony is, I've not backed this post with any really compelling evidence, just anecdotes holding together my own opinion, while noting this is opinion based on years of observation. No bullshit. I don't particularly need to do anything more. I could give a tiny rat's ass if the die-hard Wikipediots believe me.
This post is just a reminder to those who do watch the grass grow, to start noticing the ever larger brown patches all by themseves. And if they're an active Wikipedian, wake the fuck up and jump ship. Dickheads like Drmies aside, Wikipedia needs you far more than you need it, and you fucking know it. Their desperation is clear and obvious. The WMF is courting people and insisting it has worth and a role, like never before. Why is that? It never used to need to sell itself that hard......
If there has ever been a more solid confirmation of what you are in the eyes of an asshole like Drmies, who is the real embodiment of the real Wikipedia, it was this essay. He blocks people with little thought, and acts like it's no big thing, as we regularly document here in his own shameful thread. Now you know why he does it. He doesn't need you.
So thanks for highlighting that, Kupdung.
As an aside, Kumioko claims the essay was written by Drmies as a message to him. If there is any evidence for that, and Drmies usually can't help but let you know if he's being that sort of an asshole, then the opportunity to add it to his thread would be appreciated.
