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by ericbarbour
Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:52 pm
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014
Replies: 3
Views: 2652

Re: Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014

Thanks for separating this. It's literally bizarre to see an American corporation actually spending millions of dollars to preserve its own history. Most of them keep a token museum or library at best. IBM dumped their entire historical collection in 2000 and if the Computer History Museum hadn't pa...
by ericbarbour
Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:22 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New Commons depicts: license CC0
Replies: 10
Views: 4859

Re: New Commons depicts: license CC0

The main debate is here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&oldid=339158118#Caption_license_changed_to_CC-0 Thanks. Oh, how bloody typical of the "Wikimedia happyfun land". Someone bitches about this scheme being implemented with no discussion, and sh...
by ericbarbour
Sun Feb 17, 2019 10:11 pm
Forum: Content Issues
Topic: Crap or questionable articles
Replies: 482
Views: 188978

Re: Crap or questionable articles

Get used to that--dead typical Blofeld shit. He's also done a load of obviously paid editing. And will never admit it. If this "magical reference thing" was really good at documenting history, I expect they would have something better than the article about Krokodil. It was the top satiric...
by ericbarbour
Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:59 pm
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: RC garden trains and other Statler bullshit
Replies: 75
Views: 39117

Re: RC garden trains and other Statler bullshit

Hah, people peeing on trains (not in the toilet) is still a commonplace thing. Just out of general interest, Union Pacific is one of those few American railroads still operating vintage steam locomotives for publicity. It must be a very expensive form of advertising, but you know what railfans are l...
by ericbarbour
Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:04 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: New Commons depicts: license CC0
Replies: 10
Views: 4859

Re: New Commons depicts: license CC0

Dysklyver wrote:This is causing the current argument, which is that anyone making photo captions in the new Wikidata box on Commons will not get any credit for it.

Could not find anything on Commons noticeboards about this. Where is this happening if I may ask?
by ericbarbour
Fri Feb 15, 2019 9:49 pm
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: Wikipediocracy fixed Wikipedia AGAIN. Wait. What?
Replies: 7
Views: 5518

Re: Wikipediocracy fixed Wikipedia AGAIN. Wait. What?

As King of the Spooks, shouldn't you only see the online equivalent of a big fedora, sunglasses, and a long trenchcoat? That guy is in so deep, he should be invisible in broad daylight. I can easily picture him in the mod's area, blubbering that "Strelnikov is a RACIST and, and, and we have to...
by ericbarbour
Sun Feb 10, 2019 12:04 am
Forum: WMF staff/contractors and developers
Topic: Converting to or from wiki markup is now impossible
Replies: 2
Views: 2103

Converting to or from wiki markup is now impossible

I've got MacOS 10.11. And an HTML file I need to convert to wiki markup (MediaWiki) format. LibreOffice most versions have a built-in converter extension to save a file as MediaWiki, with weblinks converted as needed. Unfortunately, all recent Mac versions of LibreOffice DO NOT HAVE THIS. There is n...
by ericbarbour
Sat Feb 09, 2019 9:26 pm
Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
Topic: Wikipediocracy fixed Wikipedia AGAIN. Wait. What?
Replies: 7
Views: 5518

Re: Wikipediocracy fixed Wikipedia AGAIN. Wait. What?

All you can do is point and laugh. Note that this kind of Canadian political editwarring ALWAYS ends up involving Rachel Marsden. Stupid but true. Also notice that Tarantino, their new Fearless Leader, has been keeping a very low profile lately....their forum is becoming more like a Poetlister monol...
by ericbarbour
Sat Feb 09, 2019 9:19 pm
Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
Topic: News flash! There are Nazis in Israel!
Replies: 3
Views: 3048

News flash! There are Nazis in Israel!

From a private email: > m That is amazing. Seriously doubt the Guardian would run an item like it today. Of course NOTHING BAD EVER HAPPENS IN ISRAEL, except for those pesky Palestinians throwing rocks and ruining real estate values. Now it's just another country, with (more than?) the usual problem...
by ericbarbour
Sat Feb 09, 2019 8:55 am
Forum: Food
Topic: Controversial Subject: Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
Replies: 8
Views: 29483

Re: Controversial Subject: Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

No grilled cheese for me. Cheese varies all over the place in lactose content. Lactose intolerance....you would not believe the agony. Must be experienced first-hand. Ice cream seems to be the worst. I eat one scoop and for the next 18 hours I suffer. Cluster headaches, teeth hurt, joints ache, stif...