Alex StamosGosh, I really enjoy Wikipedia allowing anonymous IP addresses to write a living person's biography, especially one who has come under highly politicized attacks.
Great job, folks!
Darryl RammUgh 🤦
I know it's horrible but heck I have Tor and am now just slightly tempted to edit away and add: "talks too much about college sports on podcasts." 🙂
@darryl_ramm “Has an impossible to understand Californian accent, unlike the Sheila”
@alex Exactly.
I've tried to suggest the sheila talk about the Australian (and International) sport of Farnarkling but so far no luck.
Seriously... Moderated Content is a fantastic podcast. Thanks so much for that.
Thomas H. Ptacek@alex People have written to ask me about helping them set up Wikipedia pages, and EVERY TIME I have responded by trying to talk them out of it. I feel bad for the pages I started for security peeps. I even feel bad for Mary Ann Davidson. Why are you in an encyclopedia at all? Madness!
@tqbf Yeah, I rather they just delete it instead of allowing VPN exit nodes blame me for things that happened at companies before I got there or weren't my responsibility.
JohnMashey1st step: if there are outright errors, post them in the Talk page (i.e., as you did in 2018).
Despite the ever-present and often anoymous idiots,. there are enough reasonable editors that will fix things if they know what to do and have sources, especially in BLP pages.
Although mostly died off by now, decade or so ago this was a pervasive issue in battles over climate science/scientists.
@JohnMashey Yeah, folks working on online security and safety are speed-running what the climate scientists went through.
@alex
As I’ve mentioned to @noupside & others, you folks really need a group to have your backs, like Climate Science Legal Defense Fund for climate community:
https://www.csldf.org/
As I’ve mentioned to @noupside & others, you folks really need a group to have your backs, like Climate Science Legal Defense Fund for climate community:
https://www.csldf.org/
Giorgio Comai@alex while at the same time not allowing edits from logged-in accounts with a solid edit history if they use VPN...
John Breen@alex I'm sure you've donated to Wikipedia as I have, so they can improve their defenses against dis-info. People who contribute to Stanford however are apparently at a disadvantage.
FollicleMite@alex Easily remedied. Trying to prevent would be worse. #censorship
Dr Brian of London (Dev)🖥@alex and Wikipedia is held up as a paragon of truth and fact checking.
Negative12DollarBill@alex
For the record, Wikipedia may work like that by default but it also has a locking mechanism for pages subject to abuse and malicious editing. Why not find out how the system works?
For the record, Wikipedia may work like that by default but it also has a locking mechanism for pages subject to abuse and malicious editing. Why not find out how the system works?
@negative12dollarbill Yup, I asked for protection and fixes and my account was suspended, even though you are supposed to be able to comment on your own talk page to ask for admin support. Oops!
@alex
That really doesn't sound right. I still have faith in Wikipedia but something's obviously gone wrong.
@molly0xfff might have some explanation or way to escalate?
Molly White@negative12dollarbill @alex heya, I might be able to help untangle this. I'm on a trip right now so will be a bit slow to reply, but I can probably at least help with resolving the block issue
Tim Bray@alex As a fairly regular editor, I'd like to see a bit more friction applied to anonymous editing. Having said that anonymous drive-by vandalism tends to be reverted quickly. And I grant that I have seen (a very few) really positive contributions from anons.
Quinn Norton