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> IRC examples, let's have them please
Peter Damian
post Sat 26th November 2011, 12:11pm
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As another strand of my work for the UK Charity Commission on how well WMUK is controlling and monitoring Wikipedia, I would like recent IRC logs. The smuttier and more juvenile, the better. Extra barnstars for prominent Wikipedians involved.

Thanking you all in advance!
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Kelly Martin
post Fri 6th January 2012, 8:04pm
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My first response was flippant but intended to make a point which I think Peter grokked. However, there's another reason: most of Wikipedia's editors are, intellectually and emotionally, quite immature. They just don't think about these things, because thinking is too much bother. Once they have an answer that satisfies them, that's what they're going with, even if it comes down to "Because Joe said so" (provided that Joe is someone he trusts), and even if that answer is inconsistent with the answer they selected for the last, virtually identical, situation.

Simply put, Peter, your problem is that you think too much. smile.gif
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post Fri 6th January 2012, 8:15pm
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QUOTE(Kelly Martin @ Fri 6th January 2012, 8:04pm) *

My first response was flippant but intended to make a point which I think Peter grokked. However, there's another reason: most of Wikipedia's editors are, intellectually and emotionally, quite immature. They just don't think about these things, because thinking is too much bother. Once they have an answer that satisfies them, that's what they're going with, even if it comes down to "Because Joe said so" (provided that Joe is someone he trusts), and even if that answer is inconsistent with the answer they selected for the last, virtually identical, situation.

Simply put, Peter, your problem is that you think too much. smile.gif

He'll never make admin now that the cat's out of the bag...
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Peter Damian   IRC examples   Sat 26th November 2011, 12:11pm
Ottava   Email me and I'll send you tons of logs. I alr...   Sat 26th November 2011, 7:13pm
Peter Damian   Email me and I'll send you tons of logs. I al...   Sat 26th November 2011, 7:20pm
Vigilant   Email me and I'll send you tons of logs. I al...   Sat 26th November 2011, 8:33pm
EricBarbour   Email me and I'll send you tons of logs.Colo...   Sat 26th November 2011, 11:20pm
Kelly Martin   The #wikipedia channel (the one that Ottava compul...   Sun 27th November 2011, 1:29am
Peter Damian   The #wikipedia channel (the one that Ottava compu...   Sun 27th November 2011, 8:31am
Daniel Brandt   The #wikipedia channel (the one that Ottava compu...   Sun 27th November 2011, 2:21pm
Peter Damian   I rather liked this exchange (Tue Jun 28 23:37:23 ...   Sun 27th November 2011, 10:20am
Cedric   I rather liked this exchange (Tue Jun 28 23:37:23...   Tue 29th November 2011, 6:46pm
Peter Damian   I suspect Ironholds is just trolling. Prof. Reag...   Tue 29th November 2011, 6:56pm
Peter Damian   Oh I missed this perfectly revolting bit out from ...   Sun 27th November 2011, 2:45pm
Peter Damian   A bizarre exchange going on here http://en.wikiped...   Fri 6th January 2012, 7:28pm
Peter Damian   The laughable thing is that Fae /Haeften is the sa...   Fri 6th January 2012, 7:38pm
Kelly Martin   The laughable thing is that Fae /Haeften is the s...   Fri 6th January 2012, 7:46pm
Peter Damian   [quote name='Peter Damian' post='292823' date='Fr...   Fri 6th January 2012, 7:52pm
Hipocrite   Thanks for the email. I'm not sure how much pa...   Fri 6th January 2012, 7:54pm
EricBarbour   However, there's another reason: most of Wikip...   Fri 6th January 2012, 8:35pm
EricBarbour   COME ON, Hipocrite, did you really expect them t...   Fri 6th January 2012, 9:19pm
Selina   What is the supersecret admin channel these days? ...   Mon 23rd January 2012, 6:14am
EricBarbour   What is the supersecret admin channel these days?...   Mon 23rd January 2012, 7:33am
Selina   Hi Selina! Please, PLEASE go and pay up the DN...   Mon 23rd January 2012, 8:21am
Selina   meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Channels wikipedia.or...   Wed 1st February 2012, 6:49pm
Selina   meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC office hours   Thu 23rd February 2012, 3:39pm
Poor puffed-up popinjay   The GNAA has a lot. #wikimedia-ops logs #wikiped...   Wed 29th February 2012, 6:38pm
Tarc   Your URLs point to www.en.wikipedia.org, which I a...   Wed 29th February 2012, 6:55pm
Poor puffed-up popinjay   Your URLs point to www.en.wikipedia.org, which I ...   Wed 29th February 2012, 7:07pm
cyofee   Links to the GNAA site wordfilter into links to Wi...   Wed 29th February 2012, 7:40pm
Poor puffed-up popinjay   Links to the GNAA site wordfilter into links to W...   Wed 29th February 2012, 7:50pm


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