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- Thu May 23, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Link Rot
- Replies: 5
- Views: 82
Re: Link Rot
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...
- Thu May 23, 2024 9:06 am
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: Ohnoitsjamie
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1875
Re: Ohnoitsjamie
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...
- Thu May 23, 2024 3:48 am
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Link Rot
- Replies: 5
- Views: 82
Re: Link Rot
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...
- Wed May 22, 2024 8:15 pm
- Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
- Topic: Average Wikipediocrazy "discussion"
- Replies: 12
- Views: 630
- Wed May 22, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Link Rot
- Replies: 5
- Views: 82
Link Rot
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...
- Sat May 18, 2024 3:11 am
- Forum: WMF staff/contractors and developers
- Topic: Graphs don't work because WMF developers are idiots
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4433
Re: Graphs don't work because WMF developers are idiots
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...
- Fri May 17, 2024 8:56 pm
- Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
- Topic: Giraffe Stapler
- Replies: 2
- Views: 118
- Fri May 17, 2024 8:24 pm
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Crap or questionable articles
- Replies: 491
- Views: 205657
Re: Crap or questionable articles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinzing
"References"? What "references"?
Such wonderful quality! (translated from de-WP, badly as usual)
"References"? What "references"?
Such wonderful quality! (translated from de-WP, badly as usual)
- Fri May 17, 2024 7:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Sanctioned Suicide meat preservative overdose cult & whitewashing by Wikipedians (general thread, Kevinsanc, Freedom4U)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 28542
Re: Sanctioned Suicide meat preservative overdose cult & whitewashing by Wikipedians (general thread, Kevinsanc, Freedom
The bill was successfully pushed by parents of those who lost children on the incel-adjacent suicide site. During their testimony to the Kansas legislature, the leading parental activist specifically called out actions which occurred on social media due to the owner of the incel site. https://www.k...
- Fri May 17, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
- Topic: Yngvadottir
- Replies: 1
- Views: 101
Re: Yngvadottir
The last person to edit it was none other than Steven Pruitt (T-H-L). Proof, if it were needed, that the media doesn't know shit about Wikipedia. The guy has never even been vandalized. It's had two edits from unregistered users, both helpful. Rather amusingly, the super banned Neelix (T-C-L) edite...