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> Rescuing our comrades from Wikipedia
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Olivier Besancenot
post Wed 1st March 2006, 6:07pm
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Something I have seen over and over and over is a progressive user starting with Wikipedia, being descended on by conservative users fighting them alone (since progressive users are either harassed, on probation, banned etc. like Lir, Wik, Shorne, 172, Secretlondon etc.) before they are hauled off to the biased ArbCom cabal and dealt with.

It is too big a project for one person to be on the lookout for new, progressive users who are going to be targeted by reactionaries (and since Wikipedia is unfriendly to progressives, there aren't many to defend them). When I saw one, I used to tell them about alternative wikis. Now I would tell them about Wikipedia Review as well.

I think this should be a project, for anyone who would want to join me in telling people about Wikipedia Review and alternative wikis. Especially the kind of people who would be interested in these things.
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Sgrayban
post Sun 7th May 2006, 5:30pm
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User 172 is Adam Carr's ass puppet. What Adam wants to say and can't in the same sentence he passes to 172.
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