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- Tue Mar 07, 2017 2:56 am
- Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
- Topic: Trump subthread: Awful Command and Control of ICBMs
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3854
Re: Trump subthread: Awful Command and Control of ICBMs
Eric Schlosser wrote Command and Control , a book and later documentary on the history of US nuclear weapons and the endless accidents that happened during the Cold War. I recently read this--highly recommended. The USAF did something incredibly stupid, they fielded the Titan II as an "interdi...
- Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:59 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: A 700 million dollar $ Wikipedia paid editing scandal
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3546
Re: A 700 million dollar $ Wikipedia paid editing scandal
Hochman is a bullshit artist. And not an especially good one either.
- Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:57 am
- Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
- Topic: Boring...."Wikipedia bans the Daily Mail as a source"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3929
Re: Boring...."Wikipedia bans the Daily Mail as a source"
Lol
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/03/that-v ... ally-fake/
The DM makes it up AND OTHER OUTLETS REPEAT IT. That is the problem--not that the DM is fast and loose.
Wikipedia is no better than its sources--and "good" sources are more difficult to find than Wikipedians seem to realize.
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2017/03/that-v ... ally-fake/
The DM makes it up AND OTHER OUTLETS REPEAT IT. That is the problem--not that the DM is fast and loose.
Wikipedia is no better than its sources--and "good" sources are more difficult to find than Wikipedians seem to realize.
- Sun Mar 05, 2017 11:49 pm
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: [Paid editing by Foundation insiders] Anthere (Flo Devouard)
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2459
Re: [Paid editing by Foundation insiders] Anthere (Flo Devou
Thanks, I'm adding this to the book notes. Had not looked at her post-Director history very closely.
- Sun Mar 05, 2017 7:30 am
- Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
- Topic: The WO blog is now nearly moribund.....
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12658
Re: The WO blog is now nearly moribund.....
Flip Flopped wrote:Also, do you want the blog posts archived with archive dot is?
That would be helpful, although it might be better to save them as HTML files locally. PM me and we will hook up via email so you can forward copies.
- Sun Mar 05, 2017 7:25 am
- Forum: Wikipedians
- Topic: WP Admin Floquenbeam
- Replies: 21
- Views: 15062
Re: WP Admin Floquenbeam seems to be mentally unbalanced
Oh, if only you could figure out more about both Floq and Rambling Man.....there's an ugly little story here that isn't being told, because their fellow Wikipedians would rather be tortured in a dungeon than to fink on some of their friends. Rambling Man has been up to some really outrageous activit...
- Sun Mar 05, 2017 6:41 am
- Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
- Topic: Criticism of Libertarianism
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9287
Re: Criticism of Libertarianism
The question for us is what test this textbook and this course present to us. The very libertarian-friendly state of Arizona has a public university with a center funded by the Charles Koch Foundation that provides free-market ideology courses to high school students under the rubric of philosophy....
- Sun Mar 05, 2017 5:45 am
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
- Replies: 349
- Views: 194066
Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
m Almost entirely the work of one Robinhaddad . Who? m Ali welcomes Dr. Lorenzo Cohen director of the Integrative Medicine Program at MD Anderson Cancer Center and his colleague Robin Haddad, doctoral candidate in health promotion and behavior science to discuss the direction of cancer treatment and...
- Sat Mar 04, 2017 10:16 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
- Topic: "Cartoon cat’s gender identity launched a Wikipedia war"
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4759
Re: "Cartoon cat’s gender identity launched a Wikipedia war"
Let me be clear, Garfield is not the beginning of newspaper cartoon badness; that started when the space for comics got smaller and smaller, and you saw a lot more of the three-panel gag strips, and many of them lasted long enough to become "zombie" strips where the creator handed it off ...
- Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Daily Mail
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8100
Re: Daily Mail hits back at Wikipedia/Wikimedia
(no wonder WMF's litigation is increasing exponentially) And you will NEVER read ANY serious discussion of this, anywhere online. Especially not on Wikimedia's websites. All you can find is this , which is pathetically incomplete. It's one of the happy little things Mike Godwin and Philippe Beaudet...