Does the model of WP as a Mass Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game still apply? Yes, but instead of crackpots trying to control content, it is now dominated by vandalism patrollers and deletionists. As a content writer, YOU should be more angry about this. How about Biographies of Living People? I...

This guy was unusual among journalists, he actually poked around under the hood to see how the "community" "operates". But he did NOT look into the past ugly history of Israel-Palestine battles on WP, and failed to notice that pro-Israel extremists practically dominated it for the first 10 years of ...

It's now entirely "X", including the domain name, starting a few hours ago. At that same time, they cracked down on my old account, which dates from 2009. They made NUMEROUS demands for multi-factor authentication. After fighting thru that mess and logging in, I found that my feed was totally diffe...

https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditCritiques/comments/1d0m1wj/will_reddit_be_a_trilliondollar_stock_by_2050/ Obviously Huffman is trying anything and everything to attract advertisers and investors--while he continues to own controlling shares in the company. That is a clear sign he wants to be Zucc. Re...

https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/17/what-the-hachette-v-internet-archive-decision-means-for-our-library/ hmm, this makes me wonder if the WMF filed an amicus in the court case. There's a lot of love between them and the Internet Archive--one hand washes the other. (Remember: similar bullshit happen...

Thanks for the reply. There is no need for me to edit the english wikipedia and i don't want to hide my ip address. I want to show that Ohnoitsjamie made a mistake because he is confusing me with someone else and i want to prevent others getting blocked because of those wrong decisions. Please take...

Given the state of copyrights these days blindly replacing millions of dead links with internet scrappings could create a legal minefield for better or worse Despite endless struggle, WP still contains millions of "possible or fringe" copyright problems. Commons contains million of images scraped f...

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Wed May 22, 2024 12:45 am

Baby steps, baby steps.

They've had TWENTY-THREE YEARS of "baby steps". The toddler is old enough to VOTE and BUY LIQUOR in all 50 US states.

The Wiki-Putzes know DAMN well it's a problem. A BIG ONE. But they do a terrible job of managing it. https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/internet-dead-links-webpages-online-content-b2549215.html The effect means that vast amounts of news and important reference content are disappearing. Some 23 per c...

Now they're just killing it permanently with the vague suggestion that they'll implement something else.. "eventually". It's been a YEAR now. And it appears hell will freeze solidly over before they do anything. Meanwhile the Solar power in Australia article has two prominent dead charts: solarchar...