ROADKILL BILL IN WiKEDPEDiA: See Bill's site here: Roadkill He's pretty funny.
Jimmy Wales has his early ties to Ayn Rand. See this bit about her Matchmaking Hour
Ayn Rand: Julia Flint Nerd: Staas Sydenko Hot Girl: Mary Ellsworth Writer/Director: Asif Ahmed
Selected Raul's Laws of Wikipedia. These laws or observations made by User:Raul654 and others, give us an idea of the disagreements and wars that go on behind the scenes at Wikipedia. Here's the impression I get from them, that they have two fields of battle: against those less knowledgable than them and that includes noob editors, and against their peers. It would be interesting to find which real world job comes closest to the one they do, and to look at the issue of burnout.
• The people who complain loudest about the Arbitration Committee are the ones who have been sanctioned by the Committee for their misbehavior. By the same token, the users who most zealously advocate changing Wikipedia's rules are the users who refuse to obey the rules as they currently exist. • Over time, contentious articles will grow from edit-war inspiring to eventually reach a compromise that is agreed upon by all the editors who have not departed in exasperation. This equilibrium will inevitably be disturbed by new users who accuse the article of being absurdly one sided and who attempt to rewrite the entire article. This is the cyclical nature of controversial articles. • Being on the Arbitration Committee is the most thankless job on Wikipedia. It is absolutely impossible to do it such that people are happy with you. If you are doing a bad job, people complain; if you are doing a good job, people don't notice (or sometimes even then complain). All of your actions are examined under a microscope. People expect you to be the Oracle of all truth - to work miracles no matter how complicated the case, no matter how bad the evidence, no matter how hostile and stubborn the disputants. And of course, there are the accusations of cabalism.
Laws made by others: • Essjay's second law - Wikipedia has no right to free speech. The First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law..."; we are not Congress, we are the cabal. • Rob Church's second law: Some people are only alive because it's against the law to kill them. Some people are only able to edit Wikipedia because it's against the "rules" to block them. • Alphax's second law: As the number of banned users increases, the probability that any given troublemaker is a sockpuppet of one of these banned users approaches 1. • Extreme Unction's Third Law - Problematic users will drive good users away from Wikipedia far more often than good users will drive away problematic ones. • Bachmann's Law: Trolls are the driving force of Wikipedia. The worst trolls often spur the best editors into creating a brilliant article with watertight references where without the trollish escapades we would only have a brief stub. • Archer's Adage: People who name laws, axioms, and principles after themselves are pompous asses. (Is an exception made for adages?) • Durova's second law: armchair conspiracy theorizing is easy, quick, and pleasant; actual gumshoe work is difficult, slow, and painful. Therefore, within a pool of volunteer labor, crank theorists will always outnumber genuine detectives. • Humus sapiens' first law: Attempts to refute a conspiracy theory become part of the plot. • J.S.'s second law: Show me an admin who has never been called a nazi and I'll show you an admin who is not doing their job.
MORE Again we have to ask ourselves, with all this wasted effort, how does Wikipedia manage to work? The fact that most are not getting paid would be the primary reason, in my opinion.
In a recent Twitter comment, Rachel Marsden posted: "Why Wikipedia sucks: "Stephen Hawking has to reconcile his views on black holes with Bob from Idaho who thinks they are portals to Narnia." Only that in the wikiworld, Bob could Hawking wheeled before the Arbitration Committee for severe violations of the Neutral Point of View, and get him disconnected from his voice synthesizer for being a troll ... just because Bob can type faster. Such is the world where truthiness outweights truth by 10 l
Like any good online personality, I do my best to keep up with the online reputation management of myself and the brands I manage. In this case, I track via RSS the revisions to the Search Engine Roundtable's Wikipedia article. At 18:54 today, some guy from the IP address of 199.20.26.98 made a change to the page. In short, he felt that the Search Engine Roundtable "is by far tha gayest site i have ever seen wikipedia sucks!" I did a reverse IP address lookup on this user and it turns out h
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Yet another way to help this site is, to link Wikipedia to it. You could: Site it as a source, or place a link in articles having an arguable connection to whatever my point is? I have written about Rand, Wales, and markets being relevant to Wikipedia, and the tragedy of the commons as it applies to Wikipedia, really I have, search my blog and see. I am CPA and have written a bit about Wikimedia's IRS form 990 (Which the by the way, is still expected, it's late, it is legal to have not filed it yet, but it doesn't look good). What better way to liven up an admin's day, then to point her to my website? It's up to you, the fate of IHateWikipedia.com is in your hands. I don't think I can link any site of mine to Wikipedia, as that would give the appearance of a conflict of interest. And I wont go the sock puppet route. There are smarter geeks at Wikipedia than I, who would see right through that approach, and I want to keep to the moral high ground here. I suspect WP admins make up a significant percentage of my users, I've done my best to make a few of them famous. I have even been considering giving the outstanding ones, the IHateWikipedia.com seal of approval. You can help this website succeed and move forward as a place for a little fun, and a different point of view.
Lay's death prompts confusion on Wikipedia 'Free encyclopedia' format can lead to misinformation, company says
Updated: 5:42 p.m. CT July 5, 2006 NEW YORK The death of former Enron Corp. chief Ken Lay on Wednesday underscored the challenges facing online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which as the news was breaking offered a variety of causes for his death.
Lay, 64, died of a heart attack early on Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said, just six weeks after a jury found him guilty of fraud in one of the biggest corporate scandals in U.S. history.
Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, added news of Lay's death to his online biography shortly after news outlets began reporting it at around 10 a.m. EDT.
The images JokeCat has on his pages including ones of the Bomis Babes, might ironically be indirectly protected by Wikipedia. Their work in the area of "Fair Use" is important to them, and to most of us, as we adapt our old ways, to the age of the Internet. I have to give them credit here, they've got some good people working on "Fair Use".
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