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Well not in all respects of course. Sometimes people die. But before I get on to that... Have you noticed that I haven't posted much recently? I've been on holidays. Wales is very nice, I recommend it. I'll go again....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:07 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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It is most of a year since my last pointless pointless arbcomm case so it was about time for another, and here it is (that's the current state, which may not work in a year or a day's time. Permalink...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:15 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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There is an interesting (if you like that sort of thing) insight into some wiki-politics available from a recent RFA (which stands for [[Wikipedia:Requests for adminship]]. Not to be confused, obviously, with RFA which stands for [[Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests]]). Admins are the...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:55 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Finally, I've been promoted to Rouge admin status. It is a game a little like Mornington Crescent: there are no rules, but it would be a dreadful faux pas to break them. The excuse was quite a suitable one: I...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:34 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Via Durova I find Wikitruth Through Wikiorder which is worth at least a quick skim if only because, unlike most commentators on wiki, they don't seem to have totally lost the plot. Durova points out the obvious lack in their...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:29 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Would you believe that people are having an edit war over this [1]? Should the article say "Foam takeout containers are typically discarded after the food has been consumed and are rarely [[Recycling|recycled]]" or not? It is a burning issue....
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 6:40 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Well I have been listening to Slim Shady recently: I don't speak, I float in the air wrapped in a sheet I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat I translate when my voice is read...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:56 PM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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So there I was, happily settled in Heffers with a nice large cup of coffee, looking forward to reliving the Newton-Leibnitz controversy via "the system of the world" when I thought I'd have a quick browse of "The Cult of...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:56 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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More than a year ago, I thought Citizendium was cr*p. And it still is: see its GW article. The top bit is a fairly sane cp of wiki; the bottom half is a fairly insane mix of septic tripe. If...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:42 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Atmoz complains about this version of the WAIS article. As he says, it was full of cr*p. So why didn't he just fix it? I have now. Sadly, that article comes into the not-very-prominent article class, which means few people...
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Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:01 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks