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Posted by: Peter Damian

I suppose we have all noticed the new fundraiser today. Random pictures of people claiming to have generated lots of valuable yet free content. For example Alan Sohn – user:Alansohn – who says “On Wikipedia, I’ve created 2,463 articles. All of them for free. “

Great stuff, Alan, your most significant contribution seems to be ‘List of people from Teaneck, New Jersey’, 68 edits, but I couldn’t be bothered to check any further back than this year. Nearly all of your 2,463 articles are about High Schools in New Jersey. This does not persuade me to part any of my hard-earned cash to WMF, particularly not if I have to divert it from my current financial support of institutions like the Warburg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_Institute . Interesting that the Warburg article is far smaller than any of the voluminous articles about New Jersey schools.

Posted by: Malleus

https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_1108_UK_Roger/GB/en&utm_source=B11_1108_UK_Roger&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=C11_1108_UK_Test9&language=en&uselang=en&country=GB&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DSpecial%3AUserLogin%26returnto%3DSpecial%3AWatchlist%26campaign%3DACP1 . I think whoever chose the "I've created X articles" approach has made a fundamental mistake; just makes the editors look smug.

I notice as well that they're all being called authors, not editors. Significant?

Posted by: that one guy

Can we have one saying "I deleted X articles" or "I blocked Y users"?

Posted by: It's the blimp, Frank

Or I OWN x articles?

Posted by: lilburne

Can't they pay for their own entertainment?

Posted by: Peter Damian

Were you not asked, Malleus? You seem to have written more than that useless lot.

Posted by: thekohser

Roger sounds like he was a real party animal as a kid:

Posted by: The Joy

Roger has never seen a library catalog before?

Posted by: EricBarbour

He's bragging that he's OCD. Only a Wikipedian would do that (or a hacker).

Posted by: Malleus

I was eventually asked after I took the piss about not being asked, but of course I refused, as the WMF and I see eye-to-eye about very little. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Malleus_Fatuorum/Archives/2011/September#Interview_with_Wikimedia_Foundation.

Posted by: Ottava

I wish I was asked.


"Here is a testimonial from a user that created multiple Featured Articles after being banned."

Posted by: radek

I would've liked to seen the "A Personal appeal from an editor who's driven 5,784 other editors off of Wikipedia"

Posted by: lilburne

Where can you claim compensation for them having wasted your time in reading the drivel?

Posted by: Peter Damian

That's a great thread.

Posted by: EricBarbour

Yeah, but I still think Malleus is a supermasochist.

And the more I think of it, The Young Ones seems to be the perfect Wikipedia sitcom.
It's crude, filthy, disgusting, hostile, trollish, insane, and ultimately worthless.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANquX0YHFhw could be an Arbcom get-together.

Posted by: It's the blimp, Frank

https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_1107_US_Brandon/en/US&utm_source=B11_1107_US_Brandon&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=C11_1107_US&language=en&uselang=en&country=US&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%3AWatchlist

You can't see his photo on that page, but when it pops up at Wikipedia, he looks like he works part-time at a meth lab.

Posted by: Malleus

As I said, I refused. And it's 5,785 if you don't mind.

Posted by: Abd

The rest of that paragraph.It follows, then, that those who are banned have been working to make people slaves, to oppress them, to deprive them of "free knowledge," to ban them, uh .... never mind, strike "ban." What was I saying? Ah, yes, Wikipedia is the embodiment of all Truth and Goodness, send usyour money.

Give a man a fish, he's fed for one day. Teach him to fish, he's fed for life. Give him "free knowledge," he's, he's, he's ...

Addicted to editing Wikipedia.

Knowledge is never free. Acquiring it takes experience, work, and courage. Sometimes even money. If one needs a taste of knowledge, a hint, one can sometimes find it at Wikipedia. Real knowledge, the kind that actually does make people free, cannot be found on Wikipedia, what remained of it has mostly been deleted or revised literally to death. Used to be you could find links to truly useful web sites on Wikipedia. Gone, for the most part, for this or that "reason." "Site has advertising on it, remove as spam." "Site advocates a point of view."

(people who have knowledge advocate the points of view developed through the knowledge, so of course they advocate it.)

(Those, by the way, were made-up standards, but are based on real situations that actually damaged the project because an admin enforced the idea.)

Posted by: NuclearWarfare

According to Matthew from the WMF, Brandon Harris' banner is apparently doing the best of all of them.

Posted by: Ottava

His is only the second scariest one. I find that amusing.

Posted by: Abd

That's because he's serving really tasty Kool-Aid. Fast-acting, you won't know what hit you until you wake up a few years later and realize the cost.

Posted by: RMHED

Kool-Aid laced with roofies, and while you're sleeping Brandon the pediaphile will fiddle about with your credit card.

Posted by: SB_Johnny

Dammit, can't watch on netflix.

I really feel bad for the people who volunteer to make these "personal appeals". I'm sure they're nice people who really are trying to make the world better, but they don't know that their efforts are being used by Jimbo & Co. to promote their leeching careers.

Posted by: radek

You can watch most of the good scenes at youtube. You'll miss out on the "plot", unless you know the sequence to go through but hey, can't have everything.