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- Sun Apr 16, 2017 4:42 am
- Forum: Wikipediocracy talk
- Topic: The WO blog is now nearly moribund.....
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12519
Re: The WO blog is now nearly moribund.....
It's a month old now but there WAS a new blog post. m Not a bad one either--until you get to the comments and a pissing match between "Checking the checkers" and Greg. Pointless. One thing this fails to note: Valerie Aurora's close friendship with the banned-and-fired WMF insider Sarah Sti...
- Sun Apr 16, 2017 4:30 am
- Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
- Topic: WP media notes for week of Apr 13
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2455
Re: WP media notes for week of Apr 13
A sucker is born every second:
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/opinion/le ... 76159.html
And this is not a bad idea, just wish all university journalism departments would cooperate and build a single wiki. Then you could have serious competition for WP.
http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/04/this-w ... ms-online/
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/opinion/le ... 76159.html
And this is not a bad idea, just wish all university journalism departments would cooperate and build a single wiki. Then you could have serious competition for WP.
http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/04/this-w ... ms-online/
- Thu Apr 13, 2017 10:30 pm
- Forum: Wikipedia In The Media
- Topic: WP media notes for week of Apr 13
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2455
WP media notes for week of Apr 13
This was incredibly stupid: m A Burger King TV advert which was designed to activate Google Home smart speakers and some Android phones to describe its Whopper burgers has been hijacked by members of the public. The ad triggered the devices to read out information about the burgers from online encyc...
- Thu Apr 13, 2017 9:53 pm
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Crap or questionable articles
- Replies: 490
- Views: 196148
Re: Crap or questionable articles
A perfect, IDEAL example of Wikipedians acting like ADHD robot people. A long-and-still-growing article about a trivial news item.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Ex ... 1_incident
Created on 10 April. Three days later it was 49k bytes with 92 references.
And in six months it will probably be totally forgotten.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Ex ... 1_incident
Created on 10 April. Three days later it was 49k bytes with 92 references.
And in six months it will probably be totally forgotten.
- Thu Apr 13, 2017 9:24 pm
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
- Replies: 343
- Views: 188424
Re: Paid Editing
For an example of a sad little short article that attracts incredible amounts of questionable edit traffic (some unquestionably paid), let me recommend Bijan (designer) . It was created in 2006 by someone who appears to work in the fragrance business; that doesn't surprise because Bijan's best-known...
- Thu Apr 13, 2017 9:02 pm
- Forum: Food
- Topic: British food
- Replies: 11
- Views: 37719
Re: British food
Wish someone would make me Yorkshire puddings. It's supposed to be a moderately difficult trick; getting them to rise without yeast. You have to follow a weird procedure to the letter and it's "too difficult" for restaurant chefs or something. The only really good thing Brit food has given...
- Thu Apr 06, 2017 11:03 pm
- Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
- Topic: Great article about Something Awful
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2077
Great article about Something Awful
m Note these parts: Kyanka: It was more of a close-knit community, a modest community, still in its youthful phase. There were regulars, everyone knew each other. Then around 2005 it started getting really popular. Unfortunately, popularity is a double-edged sword. You lose a sense of community, but...
- Thu Apr 06, 2017 8:36 pm
- Forum: Content Issues
- Topic: Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
- Replies: 343
- Views: 188424
Re: Paid Editing on WP is permissible
m almost entirely the work of m Who is unquestionably author Lynn Hamilton. Right there on her userpage: I am, occasionally, paid to edit Wikipedia. I am currently working for the University of South Florida on articles to be titled "The National Academy of Inventors," "Florida Invent...
- Tue Apr 04, 2017 9:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Email of a blocked user to ARBCOM (copied from another blog)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5627
Re: Email of a blocked user to ARBCOM (copied from another b
Sorry, still think you're wasting your time.....
- Tue Apr 04, 2017 8:57 pm
- Forum: Dark Corners -- a place for odd and deviant subjects (WP related or not)
- Topic: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread
- Replies: 358
- Views: 176233
Re: The (new, straight-from-scratch) Trump thread
God...do I have to add an item to the book wiki about Trump-related WP editshitting? Argh. The Gorka article is a HUGE mess, something the CNN reporter and his "brethren" in the media are ill-equipped to recognize or decode. I looked at the history of his article and *I* can't tell you who...