I remember that Semrush is very close to Dulles International, because I had insane levels of activity from their bots shortly after I published my original open letter to ArbCom on my site. (Kumioko, as I recall, helped me to understand who Semrush was in the first place.) The coincidence of my bei...

ericbarbour wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 03, 2020 3:16 am

link to three major software projects using Wikidata that are not top-secret and not controlled by the WMF. Other than Google's use of their data, of course!)[/b]

Can you link to three that are, Eric? Truly puzzled by this whole qiki-straction operation.

Probably not the point of the thread, but

• Wikipedia:WikiRat is a fail. Maybe the cat killed it and it floated down the Yellow river past the cotton fields...
• Wikipedia:NOTUS isn't policy, believe it or not.

ericbarbour wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 17, 2020 6:55 am

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You just KNOW the IRC channels are on fire this week.

WP is surely one of ArpAnet's runaway successes, in any case. But I don't think of Wikipedia, as a whole, as being a disinformation operation, at least not as such. The bureaucratic technology protecting certain sectors, certain dys-ops, and restricting speech is pretty effective, under the convenie...

Well, it would seem that since Oct 04, 2019, Wikipedia's political bias problem has gone away!

The Count wrote:IQ? I have read somewhere Einstein had once said if you ask a fish to clime in a tree that fish looks pretty stupide.

(or like sushi)

-- shashi

I'm glum, Stani. You totally dodged my question about the resurrection date for all the content trapped in un-openable containers. All those punk bands, gone. Randy should be furious. ^^

Stanistani wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 22, 2019 6:20 am

Y'all are an excitable bunch.

Stanistani wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 22, 2019 6:20 am

I posted the change because it would be unfair to chide or discipline people for following unclear rules.

Unrelated, but you remember your music thread is still on lockdown?

I remember that this story, about which I'm not going to revisit the details either, taught me a bit about just how big en.wp is... since then, I've learned there are some fairly strong Azeri guilds...