How to "dox" Wikipedia insiders/fanatics
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2021 8:58 pm
If there is serious interest, I could post a few tutorial items on how to develop personal dossiers on usually-secretive-as-hell Wikipedia insiders. Having done it dozens of times myself, and learned much from earlier Wikipedia critics like Daniel Brandt, this might be a good place and time to share the not-very-secret "secrets" of outing idiotic wiki nerds who do not wish to be outed. (This is stuff you cannot discuss openly on Wikipediocracy anymore.)
None of this is especially clever or obscure. Googling personal details of Wiki-goobers can be most rewarding; it's so rewarding that I've seen them frantically go to various website sysops and beg them to remove old pages that talk about their personal lives. (Daniel "Wizardman" Tylicki was a perfect example of this nonsense.) Yet they themselves have done similar things in order to ruin people they were fighting with on wiki: today I was reminded of Georgewilliamherbert and Will Beback trying to silence/humiliate/whatever Jayen466 back in 2009. So these techniques are well known. Wikipedians, despite hating it when someone doxes them, have no problem with doing it themselves. The little hypocrites.
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None of this is especially clever or obscure. Googling personal details of Wiki-goobers can be most rewarding; it's so rewarding that I've seen them frantically go to various website sysops and beg them to remove old pages that talk about their personal lives. (Daniel "Wizardman" Tylicki was a perfect example of this nonsense.) Yet they themselves have done similar things in order to ruin people they were fighting with on wiki: today I was reminded of Georgewilliamherbert and Will Beback trying to silence/humiliate/whatever Jayen466 back in 2009. So these techniques are well known. Wikipedians, despite hating it when someone doxes them, have no problem with doing it themselves. The little hypocrites.
Indicate your opinion below. If sufficient interest is posted, we can make this a "sticky" topic. Others are welcome to share their techniques here.