One point to make. The founder of Wikiversity wrote an essay called "Wikipedia Disease." It is actually "wiki disease," the wiki structure, the very concepts, create the conditions where this disease can take over, if structure is not created to balance this. While Wikiversity be...

Just to get the "Rational"Wiki idiots out of everybody's hair, I wish there was a "Fringeapedia" on all fringe topics; a place where you could have NPOV articles on Cold Fusion, the Bermuda Triangle, UFOs, Fortean stuff, etc. - all the weird theories and encounters and whatnot u...

Just to get the "Rational"Wiki idiots out of everybody's hair, I wish there was a "Fringeapedia" on all fringe topics; a place where you could have NPOV articles on Cold Fusion, the Bermuda Triangle, UFOs, Fortean stuff, etc. - all the weird theories and encounters and whatnot u...

The early Wikipedians were naive about structure. Consensus governance works in small, reasonably tight groups, with unity of focus. In that context, protective structure, designed to increase reliability, may not be necessary, so it is not created. By the time it becomes necessary, an oligarchy has...

The procedure I have used where it was technically possible was to place the person on "moderated" status, to reject inappropriate posts with a brief warning/explanation, and if they ignore the warnings, making it a PITA, then ban. However, I got a number of harassing PMs from Catapult. No...

If this is TL, please DR!!! WWHP I can assure you it was many people who complained about Lomax, not just Smith. I know that there were more than Smith. Below, four are listed, plus two anons. One of the four was defacto banned as an LTA. What were the two anons complaining about? That they had bee...

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rome_Viharo Wikipedia We Have A Problem is a fake news website that Viharo uses to publish misinformation, made-up stories and wild allegations about Wikipedia and RationalWiki admins. [...] he created the website Wikipedia We Have A Problem, to protest against his ban...

And you are damn right that "Rational"Wiki will be sued for the crap that the Smith Brothers pull, and watch how the lawyers for RationalWiki will either be the same ones who work for the WMF or are advised by the WMF's legal counsel, because Gerard's site is an extension of Jimbo's. We d...

This is a classic example of Wikipedia taking years to do what would in a normal organization, take a few days. Or to be careful, a week or a month. Consider the labor wasted by dealing with all the crap that would have been prevented. It's still incredibly easy to get around. Autoconfirmed status i...

Anyone who was on Wikipedia Review prior to 2012 remembers Abd. He is a good content writer, obsessed with cold fusion, and has tried to mess with a whole string of WMF projects like Wikibooks and Wikiversity. I literally cannot count how many times he's been blocked/b& since 2007. They've been...