Wikipedia Sucks!

I'm talking about Wikiconference USA 2016* , which I wrote about here. Kirill Lokhshin is gone, as is James "I ran away to Twitter, then something more corporate" Alexander. How many of the redshirts are left? Gamaliel (Robert Fernandez) is still involved, I think.


*AKA Wiki-conjob San Diego 2016.

I tried to write a list of the ones who are gone and who are still there, but this fucking forum logged me out.

Short version: About half the WMF employees are still working for the WMF. Sydney Poore was desysopped. Dan "Deskana" Garry quit his WMF job and was desysopped for inactivity. You won't believe what happened to Karen "Fluffernutter" Brown; she still works for the WMF but lost a LOT of weight. Cult slaves like Andrew Lih, Phoebe Ayers, and Lane Rasberry will probably die in the cult. And that's nuff said.

My web connection became VERY slow over the weekend. It was always a joke but now there's a substantial delay between sending a web address and the response. AT&T is not anyone's "friend".

ericbarbour wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 11, 2025 6:36 am

Sydney Poore was desysopped.

What happened, she stopped dishing out?

"Your mama like a doorknob, everyone gets a turn."

ericbarbour wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 11, 2025 6:36 am

You won't believe what happened to Karen "Fluffernutter" Brown; she still works for the WMF but lost a LOT of weight.

While Scandinavia has experienced isostatic uplift. Coincidence?

ericbarbour wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 11, 2025 6:36 am

Cult slaves like Andrew Lih, Phoebe Ayers, and Lane Rasberry will probably die in the cult. And that's nuff said.

Shades of the "boomers"* who slaved for Lyndon LaRouche's EIR (Execuitive Intelligence Review) magazine from the mid-1970s to the 2000s. Paid very little, probably living in crap apartments, ejected (like old Scientologist staff) once they got too old make insane conspiracies sound rational, their lives are now but a mirror to the LaRouche Youth Movement zombies** who harangue college students on their quads while selling their weird LaRouche publications, travel across America in church vans, and live in Motel 6 rooms.

* "Boomer" was the official, in-cult term for these people. Did I mention that LaRouche treated people as ends and not as humans? Well now you know.

** They don't eat a lot, most are ex-college kids who quit because another LYM member convinced them to, and the squads are very tiny (there may be as few as 5000 on the entire planet, mostly in America and Western Europe.)

A "church van" is one that is a mini bus, row after row of seats. Fundy churches rely on them for bus missions if they can't get a surplus school bus.