Wiki-Army of Autism, Disability, and Mental Illness

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Wiki-Army of Autism, Disability, and Mental Illness

Post by wexter » Tue Dec 01, 2020 5:49 pm

fyi; my normal activities of the day have been sidelined (boating, kayaking, walking, biking et al) from a Shingles shot side effects hence I am online trading stocks | My talk attempt to correct Wikipedia mission was a shit show. I was more successful withhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawat-e-Islami which was mentioned on this forum. I am trying to understand why Wikipedia sucks as a product.

I am thinking about Wikipedia as a VIRTUAL-LAND OF THE LOST providing purpose to those who are not mainstreamed. Bipolar people with high IQ, depression with high IQ, Asperger's, Schizophrenia; people with dysfunctional though processes, slot machine type-reward Wikipedia and its all acknowledged by them btw.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category: ... ith_autism

Wikipedia is the ultimate honeypot! If a group of researchers had been given the task of creating a working/hobby environment specifically designed to attract high-functioning autistics,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... 7s_editors

it's very probable that here in Wikipedia we have a much higher percentage of people on the autism spectrum than you'll find in the real world. Wikipedia is like a honey-trap for people on the autism spectrum.

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/20 ... edia-life/

Personality
Researchers have begun to identify key personality traits in Wikipedians. According to a study published in 2008, Wikipedia members are more likely than non-members to locate their "real me" online—that is, to feel more comfortable expressing their "real" selves online than off.[9]

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/20 ... edia-life/

in accounts from other autistic people, is a feeling of profound isolation.

Autism in the Wikimedia community
Of course, one major example of wide-scale online communication is the Wikimedia movement. And at first glance, Wikimedia sites, and Wikipedia in particular, offer a platform where one can meticulously compile facts about their favorite obsession, or methodically fix the same grammatical error over and over, all of that with limited human interaction; if this sounds like a great place for autists (and a perfect honey trap) well, it is to some extent.

https://www.conservapedia.com/Examples_ ... ll_editors

Wikipedia editor Anma Finotera retired in 2010 because, "There are quite a few mentally ill people who edit Wikipedia.

desperately seeking the attention they must have lacked in their real lives, it is important to note that as of March 15, 2014, 480 Wikipedia editors self-identify as having Asperger syndrome[10] and an additional 32 self-identify as being Autistic.[11] So, Wikipedia is truly an encyclopedia which anyone including the autistic can edit. A
Wikipedia - "Barely competent and paranoid. There’s a hell of a combination."

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Re: Wiki-Army

Post by sashi » Wed Dec 02, 2020 8:32 pm

I wonder what the statistics would be for PTSD. (Did you just search the "user" namespace for your stats?)

Beware -- (per haps) -- the Wixycontin flush of pithy Wiki-kwikicism -- the OCD of the OED master-builders and assorted fits and misfits has been stuffed into legend ( too ) .

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Re: Wiki-Army of Autism, Disability, and Mental Illness

Post by wexter » Wed Dec 02, 2020 11:14 pm

I am definitely getting PTSD from wikipedia as you can see here

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fi ... ent_audits

It doesn't surprise me the dictionary writers are Mad Hatter's.
I think Wikipedia could drive a grounded individual mad in short order.

My guess is that Wikipedia has about 10 years left in its life at which point it will be replaced by some kind of Pictionary.
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Re: Wiki-Army of Autism, Disability, and Mental Illness

Post by wexter » Thu Dec 03, 2020 4:29 am

Wife said today: What is wrong?
I said I was just thinking!
This exchange, the PTSD effect, happened twice today.

I might have been thinking about the most epic romantic drama film Dr. Zhivago No, I was thinking how to deal with the cluster fuck which is Wikipedia.

Britannica Insights - Doctor Zhivago -film by Lean [1965] Doctor Zhivago, American dramatic film, released in 1965, that was a sprawling adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s acclaimed novel. Although the movie earned mixed reviews, it became one of the top box-office attractions of all time

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Wikipedia - Doctor Zhivago (Italian: Il dottor Živago) is a 1965 epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt. It is set in Russia between the years prior to World War I and the Russian Civil War of 1918–1922, and is based on the 1957 Boris Pasternak novel Doctor Zhivago.

But I decided instead to do a Snagglepuss and Exit Stage Left as a pink anthropomorphic cougar sporting an upturned collar.

Britannica - not worthy of an entry

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Wikipedia Snagglepuss is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character debuted in prototype form in 1959 and established as a studio regular by 1962.[4][5] A pink anthropomorphic cougar sporting an upturned collar, shirt cuffs, and bow tie,

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In life - a pink cartoon tiger that exited stage left!, simple as that.

Wikipedia administrators were in Zugzwang (my user name +/-) according to Wikipedia they were in a condition in other words, the fact that

Plain old Dictionary - a situation in which the obligation to make a move in one's turn is a serious, often decisive, disadvantage.

Wikipedia - Zugzwang is a situation found in chess and other turn-based games wherein one player is put at a disadvantage because of their obligation to make a move; in other words, the fact that the player is compelled to move means that their position will become significantly weaker.

The fact that

I was making constructive edits by correcting anything I touched upon (because everything on Wikipedia is whacked) while annoying the living daylights of them in the process. I got scrummed by administrators who were exacerbated and coordinating with each other as to what to do.

They are in a state of cognitive dissonance - I am getting notes that I am lying about deleting a link to child pornography they did not really want to delete). Even though paragraphs and paragraphs and paragraphs and paragraphs of debate and emails to Wikimedia Foundation exist as a trail. .

Plain old dictionary - the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.


Britannica Cognitive dissonance, the mental conflict that occurs when beliefs or assumptions are contradicted by new information. The unease or tension that the conflict arouses in people is relieved by one of several defensive maneuvers: they reject, explain away, or avoid the new information; persuade themselves that no conflict really exists; reconcile the differences; or resort to any other defensive means of preserving stability or order in their conceptions of the world and of themselves. The concept was developed in the 1950s by American psychologist Leon Festinger and became a major point of discussion and research.

Wikipedia WTF as usual - In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance occurs when a person holds contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values, and is typically experienced as psychological stress when they participate in an action that goes against one or more of them. According to this theory, when two actions or ideas are not psychologically consistent with each other, people do all in their power to change them until they become consistent.[1] The discomfort is triggered by the person's belief clashing with new information perceived, wherein they try to find a way to resolve the contradiction to reduce their discomfort.

My conclusion with enough being said

I will leave Wikipedia to you guys. I made the mistake of participating by removing a link that pointed to Child Pornography, editing a page owned by a public relations department, added a quote in a Science Fiction entry (Rollerball) and tuned a biased entry on an Islamic sect that failed to mention it ties to terrorism and murder. (which was reverted for WP:DWTFIDFWRMF, Wikipedia does whatever the fuck it does for whatever reason mostly fear)

My conclusion after this experiment-experience is that Wikipidia is a Social Network for its longtime participants.

The process of Wikipedia being unworkable, "protecting" the established body of content has become the main priority and has driven a defensive culture (by necessity). The content itself does not seem to be examined or bench checked via critical thinking.

Lots of people rely on Wikipedia because its melded into the Google Search engine. I was Irked when everything I was looking at on Wikipedia was blatantly wrong. (or worse link to child porn, and an inability in process to quickly correct the problem.)


I will leave your Social Network to you. In closing:


Where does that leave me with Wikipedia Sucks


One, yes Wikipedia does suck.. Its sucks hard.
Two, So long and thanks for the fish, not
Three, “I have finished Pasternak with mixed feelings, which is more than I hoped for.”
Wikipedia - "Barely competent and paranoid. There’s a hell of a combination."

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