Wikipedia Sucks!

I am putting a bounty up of 100 IQ tokens for anyone who can create a Wikipedia page on any of the following topics, on any language Wikipedia :-

Everipedia
IQ (cryptocurrency)
EOS.IO
Sam Kazemian
Mahbod Moghadam
Theodore Forselius
Travis Moore
Romi Ezzo

Please PM me with your EOS account name if you are able to get any or when you've got an EOS account set up, I'll be happy to transfer 100 IQ for every article created that you can get to stick and is of even half-decent length.

Some are easy to get, like IQ (cryptocurrency) on WPEN just needs a revert by a cofirmed account. I was going to start doing some, but thought, now we have a rewards system, let's run a fun competition! With prizes!

Many of these articles also have competent Everipedia translations to copy.

I might have to cap it at 20 articles, cos that would be more than play money and there are a lot of languages for anyone taking this seriously. But at current rates, that's about $3-4 an article, I think, which isn't a bad bounty. If anyone gets 10 without one, I'll set them up their own spaceship - an EOS account with 1000 pre-loaded IQ and then burn all the keys after giving them you.

Links to English versions for convenience (see the sidebar for links to other languages, to verify if they exist)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ%20(cryptocurrency) (missing, redirect to EP)

Most recent blanked version....
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IQ_(cryptocurrency)&oldid=853379810

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOS.IO
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Kazemian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahbod%20Moghadam (missing)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore%20Forselius (missing)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis%20Moore (wrong Travis)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romi%20Ezzo (missing)

Are you paying out for machine translations?

Something people always forget, always create the redirects for alternate names and common mispellings. And for missing articles, all above should redirect to Everipedia.

CrowsNest wrote:Are you paying out for machine translations?

If you can get machine translations past local language admins and make them stick. Sure. A half decent page should have about 5-10 facts though, I guess.

A multiple POV article on some of these subjects would probably be a good thing. I'm tempted to play (but for free).

Adopting "strategic gravitas", as the WMF says in their job descriptions, I would say "Paul, you should really warn young impressionable passersby that they're headed for certain drama, especially if they're working for the few symbolic IQ points they've read about in your message here. tsk. tsk."

cf. the tip of the iceberg

You wouldn't take this task on for the money. You do it for the lulz of entrapping gullible Wikipedians, who will of course believe anyone creating these articles is a sock or meatpuppet of Paul, and try to have you whacked.

Those who are so accused, you are instructed to do the following.....

1. Deny it (you obviously won't be sock, and nobody can ever prove you are acting for or with Paul)
2. Politely but firmly ask the accuser to substantiate their accusation with evidence, or retract it (physically strike through)
3. When they explain their evidence, which will simply be their belief that creating one of these articles is evidence you are Paul or his meat puppet, politely but firmly point out that Everipedia is sufficiently well known for this to be a clear and obvious failure to assume good faith and consider plausible alternate explanations
4. When they double down, report them to the local AN/I, explaining you feel that their accusation that they are a sock, or are a willing associate of a sock, is damaging to your reputation as an editor in good standing
5. When the local Administrators fail to do their duty, state that you are not going to let this drop, you will be escalating this to the level of an ArbCom case, or whatever the local equivalent is, because you consider this a retiring issue
6. Drag out the issue out for as long as possible, spreading the names of the abusive users and the disputed content far and wide.
7. Retire. Or not. (it won't matter).

The plan should work for any editor of any experience (success being measured in disruption, not articles getting created), although obviously don't do daft things like spouting perfect Wikipedia policy in your first ten edits. And don't embark on the plan until you can create the article yourself. If fully locked, create it under a slightly different title.

For those who are wondering why I am posting my Dastardly Plan out here in the open where they can see it, well, it is in line with the greatest Dastardly Plan of all. The best, most fun, way to fuck with Wikipedia, is to make yourself indistinguishable from a good faith user who is simply being screwed by the paranoid Wikipedians who find it incredibly hard to assume good faith or respond correctly to perceived threats where there is no smoking gun evidence.

The more people who appear to be innocently trying to document a competitor of Wikipedia, who then appear to get unfairly treated by Wikipedia for doing so, the better. If they are not our loyal troops but actual innocent victims, well, even better.

Cannon fodder, to your vehicles!

CrowsNest wrote:Cannon fodder, to your vehicles!

The bounty hunt competition has it's first winner!

I'm not going to give the game away just yet by telling you which of those pages and in which language went down first, but they're going!

I've got a smurf in the game too, but going to keep it hush who I am.

https://xtools.wmflabs.org/articleinfo/ ... Everipedia

Still wanna know which of you is "QuackGuru". Because I want to thank you for annoying David Gerard.

I nailed another page on the list. That's 2 I know of so far.

I'll increase the bounty to 200 IQ for the next five as I've made a bit in rewards from the system to pay for it now.

I nailed another page on the list. That's 2 I know of so far. I have paid out 100 IQ as promised for one.

I'll increase the bounty to 200 IQ for the next five as I've made a bit in rewards from the system to pay for it now.