XLibreWe forked the X.Org Server in June 2025.
#Grokipedia states this fact in its X.Org Server article.
#Wikipedia completely removed #XLibre from its X.Org Server article—after someone removed the political bias.
petersuber9/ I love #Wikipedia as a reader and served on the @wikimediafoundation Advisory Board for a few years. But my experience as a contributor has been largely negative.
Could we do this monitoring job on Wikipedia without inviting editors to take it down for violating the neutral point of view (#NPOV)?
We should be able to. The actions of the Trump admin, and the actions of those pushing back, are public and could be logged neutrally. But I'm not optimistic that such a list would survive for long. Could any #Wikipedians advise or help with that?
Nemo_bis 🌈@bthalpin 3. What sources find interesting. (Relentless media coverage of celebrity homes going up in smoke.)
Skip Lacaze@latenightblog I have not run into this admin, but I did cut back my editing years ago after too many arguments with deletionists. “He judged #ReliableSources based on whether they shared his viewpoint, and when that wasn’t enough, he built the Reliable Sources himself. He made sweeping changes to the site with wildly insufficient explanations, then guarded them with decades of built-up knowledge of how to frustrate opponents and wear them down. He demonstrated step-by-step that he was correct: Wikipedia’s processes really were insufficient to deal with a sufficiently motivated #BadFaith actor with friends willing to cover for him, and each time the site slapped him down he simply found another way to pursue his bitter mission.”
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“The idea of a democratic, leaderless group has calcified into one where an old guard determined to weaponize process act as de facto leaders of everything they can bludgeon others away from.” #Wikipedian #NPOV #WikipediaAdmin #DavidGerard
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“The idea of a democratic, leaderless group has calcified into one where an old guard determined to weaponize process act as de facto leaders of everything they can bludgeon others away from.” #Wikipedian #NPOV #WikipediaAdmin #DavidGerard
RationalWiki#Ballotpedia is a website that provides information on #US #elections and candidates for voters. It started out as a community-contributed site, but is now only edited by paid staff. It has information related to both US Federal government and US state governments, with a database of information on US state executives, legislators, districts, candidates for such positions & ballot measures.
The website claims to be #neutral & accurate. Due to the nature of the site, it does sometimes show decidedly non-factual quotes from other sources (such as public figures). Despite this, the site was founded by the Citizens In Charge Foundation, a #libertarian activist organisation. The site is currently run by a remarkably well-fed nonprofit called the Lucy Burns Institute, which is substantially funded by #Koch Industries money, funnelled in via various corporate shells.
#RationalWiki #NPOV #lucyburnsinstitute #KochIndustries
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ballotpedia
Update. Is anyone making a public list of those #textbooks? That would benefit the whole country.
It seems to me that such a list could satisfy the @wikipedia #NPOV. "Here are the revised, #FL-approved books" and either "no opinion on whether the revisions were a good idea" or "here is the controversy". But even if Wikipedia would reject it, there are many other ways to make a #crowdsourced #openaccess list.
Mark GardnerRemember, folks, #Wikipedia’s #NPOV is a lie. Every fact implies a value and the decision on what facts to include or omit is a value judgment. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/wikipedia-admin-jailed-for-32-years-after-alleged-saudi-spy-infiltration/
Alex Enkerli