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Jeff Craig@molly0xfff New sticker design?
@foxxtrot ask and you shall receive https://store.mollywhite.net/products/come-and-take-it-pen-sticker
ahills@molly0xfff It's a little disappointing to see the author give up on Wikipedia's behalf in the closing sentence:
> The free encyclopedia will become too toxic to sustain.
Maybe it's just awkward editing, and it belongs in the paragraph above it—but this conclusion feels quite hostile, all but asking people to divest from the project.
@ahills mm, i would have done the same
@molly0xfff Do you see it as a foregone conclusion?
@ahills not at all. to clarify, i meant i would have made the same edits you mention to avoid ending with that apparent conclusion.
@molly0xfff Yeah. My charitable interpretation is that it's hyperbole meant to goad us into action. (Thanks for clarifying!)
RRB@ahills @molly0xfff The truth must be banned at all cost....
@ahills @molly0xfff Coincidentally, just had a group of students walk by chanting "read books, don't ban them."
Derrick OswaldIt's sad, but the experience that many occasional Wikipedia contributors have is there is a cabal of "in editors", that seem to orchestrate the deletionist movement to automatically remove any edits or new pages, to preserve an archaic view that Wikipedia should mimic a page-bound and somehow printable version of an encyclopedia.
I assume this is because there is no mechanism to support a bifurcated or multi-furcated reality in the Wikipedia/Wikimedia software.
So, IMHO, Wikipedia is stewing in it's own broth, by truncating the long tail of possible well meaning contributors, and thereby allowing focus groups, with possibly malicious intent, to hold sway in edits and arbitration.
@derrickoswald it is possible for “wikipedia must be improved” and “wikipedia must be defended” to both be true
Toni Aittoniemi@molly0xfff Heritage foundation is imitating China, not fighting it.
MAGA is imitating Russia, not fighting it.
Tim Hutchings@molly0xfff It's going to be okay because Elon Musk just said that doxxing people taking over tech platforms is a crime, right?
ZAC
Arik@molly0xfff “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
Mr_N@molly0xfff
Oh Mann, Angriffe auf ehrenamtlich Beitragende, wo soll das bloß hinführen?
Oh Mann, Angriffe auf ehrenamtlich Beitragende, wo soll das bloß hinführen?