WikiBreak Enforcer the Alcohol Anonymous of Wiki-idiots

[wexter]

Just ran across this Gem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... k_Enforcer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikibreak

The pain involved varies from Wikipedian to Wikipedian. Some find it easy to endure, whereas others find the separation agonizing. Often the latter find themselves grasping at any opportunity to go online "just to check what's happening".

[ericbarbour]

That's very funny. The addict is expected to install a piece of Javascript on the account that automates enforcement. But there's nothing preventing the junkie from editing with sock accounts or a smartphone. No third-party intervention needed. Making it a useless "invention".

BTW: look at the early history of the Wikibreak article. Insiders were fighting over it all the way back in 2004.

[wexter]

BTW: look at the early history of the Wikibreak article. Insiders were fighting over it all the way back in 2004.

Yeah, reading through the Wikibreak history, it looks like some of the "founding core" people of Wikipedia are acknowledging that the project has serious down side. Wikibreak history identifies some of the first lunatics that founded the insane asylum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere

Hello ! Anthere for wikipedians since early 2002, my name in real life is Florence Nibart-Devouard. From 2004 to 2008, I held a position on the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, first as vice-chair, then as chair (following Jimmy Wales yeah!)[1]. After 3 terms, very proud of the work done, but a little tired nevertheless, I decided not to run for a 4th term.
I became a member of the Advisory board of Wikimedia Foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Angela

I've been a Wikipedian since February 2003. I was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation between 2004 and 2006 and chair of the Advisory Board between 2007 and 2012. In 2004, I co-founded Wikia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Michael_Snow

My name is Michael Snow, and I have been contributing to Wikipedia since 2003. I served for two years as chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, was on the Advisory Board for a period, and currently serve on the audit committee. Although it has occasionally produced some confusion, I am not Michael Snow, the Canadian visual artist.

Before joining the board of the foundation, I started The Signpost, a weekly community newspaper for the English Wikipedia

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PS: Wherever you look on Wikipedia there is kool-aid.. Following a link from Anthere's talk page I found this wonderful propaganda statement from a "soapbox" of political agenda and bias;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Praxidicae
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Prax ... 020_22.jpg

[DexterPointy]

For a bit of satire,then: It's not funny that Wikibreak is humour.
Meaning, by courtesy of User:Sbb1413, it was humour from 25.Jul.2020 to 8.Sep.2020.
Note: User:Sbb1413 was a wikipedian for years, and got thousands of edits (joined WP in Oct.2017)


Anyway, you gotta love the Wikibreak "mental health template".
Isn't it wonderfull how anyone can claim to be "partially inactive" and possibly "have altered perception when making editorial judgements, determining consensus, ...".
Well, factor in that template with how Wikipedians apply WP:AGF, and there's a stack of free "Get out of jail"-cards for anyone here to snatch.