Wikipedia Sucks!

once in a great while, you see a little item like this. Indicating that the people who "run the internet" aren't the godlike geniuses sometimes claimed.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/04/ ... main_woes/

And for the record: I was questioned, when preparing the book wiki, why I spent so much time documenting WMF connections to non-WMF organizations like the Berkman Klein Center, Sunlight Foundation, Creative Commons, Google etc. It's because these outfits are run by a very small incestuous group of "public servants" and self-aggrandizing narcissists/moneygrubbers, who know each other and often cooperate on standard-making and "governance". They are not "internet gods". And not as competent or as smart as they like to pretend---but very prone to backstabbing and logrolling. Well, that's "academia" for you.

Besides, most of them have taken turns kissing Jimbo's fat little hairy ass over the years. But not so much recently.

See for yourself. There are still four "prominent Wikipedians" listed. At least they finally took Wales off the list.
https://cyber.harvard.edu/people

(Yeah, I know, "ICANN should be ICANT", old joke blah blah)

And for the record: I was questioned, when preparing the book wiki, why I spent so much time documenting WMF connections to non-WMF organizations like the Berkman Klein Center, Sunlight Foundation, Creative Commons, Google etc. It's because these outfits are run by a very small incestuous group of "public servants" and self-aggrandizing narcissists/moneygrubbers, who know each other and often cooperate on standard-making and "governance". They are not "internet gods". And not as competent or as smart as they like to pretend---but very prone to backstabbing and logrolling. Well, that's "academia" for you.

That style of "ruling" has a long history in the United States, going back to the Constitutional Convention to replace the Articles of Confederation.....no notes were printed, no discussion of the constitutional arguments in the press, it just appeared out of nowhere, the Constitution of the United States of America like God Hisself planted it upon the earth. The actual reality of how the document was hammered together was not revealed until years later. I think that created the groundwork for the Freemasons and the anti-secret society movement in the early 19th century which morphed into conspiracy theories. ICANN needs the obscurity, their idiocy out in the open would demand answers quick.

.....There are still four "prominent Wikipedians" listed. At least they finally took Wales off the list.

Wales has gotten too "rockstar" for these people, the thing he did with The Guardian probably was the last straw.

here you go: the "creme" of internet governance

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/b ... -directors

Unusually, only Marby, Roberts, Alvestrand, and Sarah Deutsch have wiki biographies. The only one mentioned in the book wiki is Alvestrand, who is also still a Google employee. (And edited his own fucking bio. Which also shows some possible paid-editing. The weasel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alvestrand)

The current ICANN board is otherwise lacking in the usual and expected Wiki-ass-kissing. Same for most of the previous board members. Only the major cork-sniffer digerati like Vint Cerf and Joi Ito get the "Wiki-Luv". Don't ask me about Esther Dyson.

Note the numerous red links here. So, I take it none of them sucked up to Wales and his slime-monkeys in the last 10 years. I think anyone serving on the ICANN board should be "notable enough" automatically as a major internet governor. But nooooo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-Large_ ... _Committee

One of them has and damn well deserves a WP bio--she's a prominent Belarusian dissident. THAT is something to attract maniac wiki editors. Go and look up "EEML editwars" and "Wikipediametric".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Kalesnikava

Encyclopedia Dramatica has an article on Wikipediametric (EEML is a redirect to Wikipediametric) but there is a decent article on this at Everipedia for anyone who is interested.