Jake Is A Sellout wrote: Wed Jul 07, 2021 11:38 pm wrote:
a selfish pursuit where unemployable wankers distract themselves from the diminishing sands of time of their worthless lives, would be undoxxable by default.
To profile Wikipedians would be to expose "the recording and analysis of a person's psychological and behavioral characteristics, so as to assess or predict their capabilities in a certain sphere or to assist in identifying a particular subgroup of people."
I would tend to agree most of the "tools" that edit Wikipedia are distracting themselves from either worthless, mentally handicapped, agenda driven, propaganda riddled, or misguided lives.
Mental illness and autism seem to be the most prominent "behavioral characteristics" of hardcore Wikipedia editors/administrators. I have not been able to find a meaningful study or profile of Wikipedia's participants.
The WMF, and the history, is interesting - greed (or grift) is at play not mental illness
The Most interesting DOX on this post is Timothy Robert Shell who was the CEO of Bomis (porn site), which he co-founded. Shell is a shell of himself in Google search, there is very little to be found on the Internet about him.
And then the other connection to Bomis would be Michael E Davis (Chicago Options Associates) - the entry below is nonsensical in that it talks about the firm getting sued with the money finding its way elsewhere. But the article does talk about the early history of Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_O ... Associates
Davis hired Indiana University economics Ph.D. graduate student Jimmy Wales to analyze the company's pricing-model strategy;[6][8][9] Wales left his graduate program to join the company[2][7] as research director,[10][11][12] serving in that capacity from 1994 through 1998.[13][14][15] He was adept at determining future movements of foreign currencies and interest rates,[16][17] and Davis mentored Wales in more-aggressive financial trading.[7]
Davis joined Wales and Tim Shell in 1996 to form the Internet company, Bomis.[6][18][19] In 2003, when Wales decided to form a non-profit organization to manage the website Wikipedia, Davis, Shell and Wales formed the initial three-member Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.[6]
The historic DOX is that the futures and options business did not work out so well, the online "porn site" and search engine did not make money, and a for-profit Wiki product was rapidly on the way to failure and got rescued by non-profit finance. The financial restructuring of Wikipedia "sounds" allot like the Chicago Options Associates lawsuit where a suit was won but the money went elsewhere and then became untouchable. The historic DOX describes Wikipedia as the "fruit of the poisonous tree."
With the integration with Google, and the business structure of WMF the "grift" is more complicated, more untouchable. and more systemically ubiquitous.
What does Doxing find? A religious nut making a hundred thousand entries about tits, a guy living in poverty in rural America bleating on his local radio channel, an autistic troll living in the attic, a libertarian looking to press his viewpoint, a person marketing himself, transgenders looking for confirmation... on and on... Perhaps 90% mental illness/autism and 10% other.
accidentally edited
Wikipedia - "Barely competent and paranoid. There’s a hell of a combination."