the Mkratz thread
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2021 9:17 pm
Have noticed this editor before, given the business I'm in and my connections to vacuum tube collectors.
Was searching for something else, and stumbled over this utterly spurious website. Under his name.
https://mkratz.pt/
Mkratz, claiming to be a refugee from German Wikipedia (due to "exclusionist-trolls-turned-WikiAdmins" of course!), is the primary author of List of vacuum tubes, perennially one of en-WP's longest articles, and a principal author of various lesser related articles.
He (?) did most of his work in 2012-2013.
That is how you fight off deletionists if you have a mass of obscure information that isn't Googleable easily--you put up your own website and pile the info up in there. Then you have a "googlelable reference" that even the biggest Beeblebrox/fool on WP will usually yield to. (That has not prevented "List of vacuum tubes" from being vandalized and hacked up by passing loonies occasionally. But over the long term it has kept the article large and decently well-protected.) It is very sad that one must resort to this to prevent facts from being Wiki-Deleted, but that's showbiz for you.
Anyone who wanted to belabor Ward Cunningham, or even Jimbo, on the inherent weaknesses of the "wiki" approach to building a database of general information, here you go. The generally poor handling of "List of" articles on WP is an excellent baseball bat. They are not well managed AND difficult to use. I'd also suggest including the Wikidata project as something necessary, but not dreamed of by Cunningham. He is NOT a Godly Genius Of The Internet. Not even "important".
I wonder if this Mkratz has a copy of Lud Sibley's Tube Lore book. Of which I have several editions. Because a lot of info on obscure tubes is available nowhere else. It appears he has stuck to "primary sources", Frank's Tube Data site, radiomuseum.org and a few other personal sites. Most of which belong to TCA members or other people I know.
Wikipedia: if you can't google it up in 10 seconds, it doesn't exist.
Mkratz did the fuckers a BIG FAVOR and they don't even know it happened. And don't care.
Was searching for something else, and stumbled over this utterly spurious website. Under his name.
https://mkratz.pt/
Mkratz, claiming to be a refugee from German Wikipedia (due to "exclusionist-trolls-turned-WikiAdmins" of course!), is the primary author of List of vacuum tubes, perennially one of en-WP's longest articles, and a principal author of various lesser related articles.
He (?) did most of his work in 2012-2013.
That is how you fight off deletionists if you have a mass of obscure information that isn't Googleable easily--you put up your own website and pile the info up in there. Then you have a "googlelable reference" that even the biggest Beeblebrox/fool on WP will usually yield to. (That has not prevented "List of vacuum tubes" from being vandalized and hacked up by passing loonies occasionally. But over the long term it has kept the article large and decently well-protected.) It is very sad that one must resort to this to prevent facts from being Wiki-Deleted, but that's showbiz for you.
Anyone who wanted to belabor Ward Cunningham, or even Jimbo, on the inherent weaknesses of the "wiki" approach to building a database of general information, here you go. The generally poor handling of "List of" articles on WP is an excellent baseball bat. They are not well managed AND difficult to use. I'd also suggest including the Wikidata project as something necessary, but not dreamed of by Cunningham. He is NOT a Godly Genius Of The Internet. Not even "important".
I wonder if this Mkratz has a copy of Lud Sibley's Tube Lore book. Of which I have several editions. Because a lot of info on obscure tubes is available nowhere else. It appears he has stuck to "primary sources", Frank's Tube Data site, radiomuseum.org and a few other personal sites. Most of which belong to TCA members or other people I know.
Wikipedia: if you can't google it up in 10 seconds, it doesn't exist.
Mkratz did the fuckers a BIG FAVOR and they don't even know it happened. And don't care.