After the tram built in 2007 crashed in June 2019,
Antandrus Vivaldi's work got
published on YCombinator. Not sure whether there is a corelation, but it could be.
The title claims it is from 2008,
but actually it was created in 2006.
This sharing on YCombinator lead to a significant peak in views, 9845 in a day, which is more than a third of the total views (25876) it got since July 2015, when WMF sites were deployed with that XTools view counter statistics feature.
Not sure how many views it got before that, but the first time it was shared on Twitter
was 2014. One confirmed tweeter shared it in
January 2015.
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Observations on observations on Wikipedia behaviour
Some vandal out there spent new decade's eve 2010 not
partying but
vandalizing Antandrus Vivaldi's work.
172.130.70.79 wrote:if you undo this your gay
I guess that's where this comes from:
Antandrus Vivaldi wrote:One of the commonest kinds of vandalism is an assertion that something, someone, or somewhere is "gay". This is a reflection of the common, indeed unavoidable, sexual insecurity of male adolescents, who make up most of Wikipedia's vandals.
Observations on Antandrus
I also have noticed that nearly 10% of Vivaldi's
last 500 edits (since early 2020) are related to that Projects/George Reeve/Ljupco guy.
Antandrus Vivaldi wrote:The only one-hundred-percent certain way to get rid of a troll is to close the browser tab. Takes a mouse click. Hard to do though, isn't it?
Something must have traumatized Ljupco so much that he (what it seems like) spent more than a decade attacking Wikipedia from hundreds of accounts and IP addresses. Or maybe
competing with Monthandme. Just my two cents.
03:58, 9 February 2010 Antandrus blocked Antandruswillpay with an expiration time of indefinite (account creation blocked, email disabled, cannot edit own talk page) (yeah, I'll probably owe the IRS this year too)
My advice for Ljupco (constructive criticism): To be taken more seriously, you should consider working on your language and spelling.
Use fewer exclamation marks and Jason-Scott style
UPPERCASE SCREAMING!!!! which sounds immature, as if a 10-year-old wrote it.
Regarding you made your first Wikipedia edit in 2005, you should be at least around the age of 25 by now.
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From
Vivaldi's global user page:
I sincerely hope is that my work here--as well as that of the thousands of other editors who have worked on the project--has served, and will continue to serve as a useful resource for anyone who searches for information, and who does not want that information to be hidden in a vault, kept behind a lock and key, or maintained by High Priests of Knowledge with nobody's interests but their own in mind. Knowledge is still power, and has been for thousands of years: let the power be free.
"Information wants to be free" has finally grown up, or so I sincerely hope.
I don't know where Antandrus Vivaldi is on Wikipedia's inclusionist/deletionist spectrum,
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But if he
“does not want that information to be hidden in a vault, kept behind a lock and key”, he should expectedly be against absurd deletions.