Wikipedia Sucks!

https://wikipedia-sucks-badly.blogspot. ... of-en.html

Another "what you see is what you get" post. I'm not wild about the layout - copypasting into a Word document doesn't seem to help.

This is are my thoughts..........



Or any other drink,

or......



Or something else, mushrooms, I don't know.

Graaf Statler wrote:Or something else, mushrooms, I don't know.

Sorry, nothing helps. Especially trying to decode logs of IRC chats by people with apparent mental problems.

What can any sane adult make of things like this? It indicates some of them fiddled around on 4chan. Which is not really "news".

[17:57] * Cream snuggles Sceptre
[17:57] * Sceptre snuggles
[17:58] <Aqwis> that's evil.
[17:58] <Cream> Sceptre, wanna see me pwning a board?
[17:58] <Sceptre> Cream: sure
[18:00] <Luna-San> Cream: Oh, so that's you on /b/ there >.>
[18:00] <Cream> lol
[18:00] <Cream> lol
[18:00] <Cream> /b/ is dying
[18:00] <Luna-San> Is it bad if I keep reloading just for the song?
[18:01] <Cream> dunno

I would tell you more about Sceptre, but you would not believe it.....

Ten years later, the quality of the chat has not improved.

Dysklyver wrote:Ten years later, the quality of the chat has not improved.

Carry on, you hero. Prepare to see your blog put on the "Spam Blacklist".

All right Eric, the Dutch part.


[18:33] <Lajla> Ik spreek redelijk Nederlands.
[18:34] <Lajla> Maar ik heb de Taalunie recent een brief gestuurd dat ik
hen niet meer erken als het regulierende orgaan van mijn moedertaal.
[18:34] <Lajla> Ze hebben net iets teveel blunders begaan was mijn rationale.
[18:34] * Addshore_ (n=Addshore@88-105-100-159.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com) has joined #wikipedia-en
[18:34] * PersianPoetGal (n=chatzill@unaffiliated/persianpoetgal) has joined #wikipedia-en
[18:34] <PersianPoetGal> *sneaks in*
[18:34] <Sceptre> the only Dutch I know is that "ljin" or "lijn" (I forgot which) is "line"
[18:34] <bradv> Hup Holland!
[18:35] <Lajla> That's lijn.
[18:35] <Lajla> Mijn: mine, fijn: fine, dijk: dyke, lijk: like.
[18:36] <Lajla> 'ij' descents from the proto-west-germanic 'long-i' as does the English 'ai' sound.
[18:36] <Lajla> And the German one.
[18:36] * Sceptre has used Belgian public transport before
[18:36] * FastLizard4 is finally out of school
[18:36] <Lajla> Mein, klein etc.
[18:36] <Lajla> Ehh, not klein.
[18:36] <Lajla> Sein, dein.
[18:36] <Lajla> dein: þine.

Special Sceptre has used Belgian public transport before fascinates me. Sceptre knows the Dutch/Flemish word line, lijn. You went to Belgium, and the only word you can remember is bus line! And then they start with most times German words. A really strange conversation I have to say.

ericbarbour wrote:

Dysklyver wrote:Ten years later, the quality of the chat has not improved.

Carry on, you hero. Prepare to see your blog put on the "Spam Blacklist".

So is Wikipedia Sucks! (the blog) on this list?

Strelnikov wrote:

ericbarbour wrote:

Dysklyver wrote:Ten years later, the quality of the chat has not improved.

Carry on, you hero. Prepare to see your blog put on the "Spam Blacklist".

So is Wikipedia Sucks! (the blog) on this list?

Doesn't look like it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist.

Of course sites may be prohibited behind the scenes by an edit filter rather than inclusion on that list, so it's not a complete picture.

ericbarbour wrote:

Dysklyver wrote:Ten years later, the quality of the chat has not improved.

Carry on, you hero. Prepare to see your blog put on the "Spam Blacklist".

http://thewikicabal.com/2018/09/28/wikipedia-admin-oshwah-blocks-united-states-congress/

HTD


Edit:
Well timed I suppose, if Oshwah had blocked congress on any other day, probably not a big deal.
This was apparently noticed by some people watching the Kavanaugh stuff and has since become the most viewed post I have ever published.
It even got posted and retweeted on twitter without me ever having put anything on twitter.
Transparency and public awareness 1 - Editing from congress nil.

Apparently this significantly increased my status from whatever it was before to "idiot fuckwit".

[2018-09-29 20:02:17] <AntiComposite> Look at dysk
[2018-09-29 20:02:27] <AntiComposite> His SRB was essentially a community action
[2018-09-29 20:02:29] <Chrissymad> dysk is a fuckwit and we shouldn't mention him in here.
[2018-09-29 20:02:33] <Chrissymad> he is voldermort only an idiot
[2018-09-29 20:02:53] — Cyberpower678 observes Chrissymad mysteriously disappear.
[2018-09-29 20:03:19] — Cyberpower678 goes afk
[2018-09-29 20:04:00] <Chrissymad> speaking of that fuckwit, i see he's logging these chats again
[2018-09-29 20:04:04] → LakesideMiners joined (~LakesideM@pool-71-112-167-93.pitbpa.fios.verizon.net)
[2018-09-29 20:05:42] <barkeep49> Look who's mentioning them now
[2018-09-29 20:06:26] → kees08_ joined (~kees08@wikipedia/Kees08)
[2018-09-29 20:07:22] <Chrissymad> didn't say the name