Are there any historical examples of the WMF, for one reason or another, interfering with en.wikipedia (or another language wikipedia) to force a change of policies or guidelines? Among the most obvious vectors of interference are the many Foundation employees and grant recipients who are also "fun...

The irony being how much WP has been used to train LLMs Volunteers who maintain the digital encyclopedia are divided on how to deal with the rise of AI-generated content and misinformation. https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bdba/ai-is-tearing-wikipedia-apart The funniest part is that by vetting the...

Does the model of WP as a Mass Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game still apply? Yes. The rules have changed, but not significantly enough to make it a different game. Two of your three bullet points can be attributed to the growth of bureaucracy meant to regulate user in-game behavior, so if "rogu...

...as for "calm and rational discussion"........numerous people have tried that, over and over, since 2004. Such things don't work with a "cultic network" like Wikipedia. They are too busy fighting stupid wars and knifing people in the back to seriously engage in "rational discussion". Baby steps, ...

That-other-site darling User:Tranarchist, now User:Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist, has "civility concerns". Who could have possibly seen this coming? He looked so… totally normal … https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=1224523230#...

That-other-site darling User:Tranarchist, now User:Your Friendly Neighborhood Sociologist, has "civility concerns". Who could have possibly seen this coming? He looked so… totally normal … https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=1224523230#U...

suckadmin wrote: ↑

Sat May 18, 2024 7:51 pm

boredbird wrote: ↑

Sat May 18, 2024 6:54 pm

preempt another sudden ban which it sounded might be imminent. Knock on wood.

Too late

Well damn.

We have two people sniping at one another but one is the site admin so it's like Bambi meets Godzilla.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R-rbzcEM8A

And try as I might, with suckadmin sending me threats via intermediaries No one told me to write you. It was really me trying to preempt another sudden ban which it sounded might be imminent. Knock on wood. If your reaction is to withdraw your contributions, at least no bridges have been burned and...

Oh dear, oh dear... Looks like Crow's posts are being deleted as they spawn. Why, oh why, could that be? Why don't you register here and ask? It's become a lot harder to register since that whole Jennsaurus "Wikipedia investigation" thing . Now registrants have to explain to the site admin why they...

They are solving the gender gap Silicon Valley style.