The WMF and the Wikipedia community has been more and more reliant on statistical data to do analysis, perform quality control and to justify that the project is succeeding. People routinely report that X number of edits have been done, what portion of the community did them and report on the health...

With one important caveat, the WMF requires you to lie if you are a child and use an adults ID. Don't worry, we won't ask and we'll destroy the documentation to ensure there is no way to perform an audit, quality control check or perform a legal request.

There have been secret mailing lists and IRC channels since the start of Wikipedia. I'm not quite sure why anyone would think they would stop now. I have been editing, high output, for years, and I just learned of the existence of a separate sorta secret wiki just for CU's. Then you have the discord...

You sure you mean Durova? She has only done 5 edits since 2013.

They usually only fill up for a short time, maybe a day, but then again it all depends on how big the watchlist is and how often the items are edited. If it's a small watchlist with a bunch of obscure items on it then the edits may linger for a while. There is a saying though, "if you watch the...

Wonder if he's aiming for bureaucrat. He actually expects people to believe he's a new user? Kumi, if he edited some other wiki, would he know how to do all that stuff on Wikipedia? Yes it would certainly help to know wiki syntax and some basic HTML but Wikipedia's processes like the stuff for dele...

How about the millions of Esperanto articles being created by bot

Yeah I would say the Wiki culture is very close to a cult that's for sure.

Yeah my fear is that they have a bigger goal...like getting access to the Checkuser data or the arbcom info...the critic in me hopes they do and then leak it.

Changing Identities is fine if they state that they did it somewhere. No one needs to know what it was, just a statement saying it existed and they changed it. That is not the case here, they have repeatedly denied having a previous account even though it's existence is rather obvious. That is not j...