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Category: tech
"Learn more" is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more: SOPA and PIPA are just indicators of a much broader problem. We are already seeing big media calling us names. In many jurisdictions around the world, we're seeing the development of legislation that prioritizes overly-broad...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:52 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
A headline which is doubtless a hostage to fortune. Anyway, I had fun deriding the Heartland Institute's failed wiki but, as frank points out in the comments, there is more fun to be had: you can look at Special:ListUsers. If...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:22 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: wikipedia
People don't talk about me much, so I'll point you at ocham.blogspot.com. It is even kind, in parts, but the problem he points out - the difficulty of maintaining an article like [[Existence]] - is quite genuine. I'm currently hacking...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 3:47 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: generic stupidity
My previous post refers. There are lots more things to say; this post doesn't really say any of them but veers off at a tangent. Let me know if you get bored. The tangent to start with is "no-one from...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 2:31 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: generic stupidity
No, not the US in Iraq, but a smaller matter: the recent arbcomm case. The case is now closed, and the the usual idiots are as usual getting it wrong (hint: the bit about admin is totally wrong). But then...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:07 PM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
This post is about the ridiculous "hide the decline" video. I watched it when it first came out. It wasn't funny, it was dull. Apparently it has now been pulled from YouTube, but who cares? But... because the thing is...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 9:23 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: wikipedia
[[Wikipedia:Database reports/Most-watched pages by namespace#User/User talk]]...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:00 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: wikipedia
"Part I" is very presumptuous. I might never write part II. Ah well, I press onwards in hope. I'm going to take my text from Climategate: the corruption of Wikipedia and see what we can learn about wiki's workings from...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 5:22 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: wikipedia
Via dubious routes I ended up at the bizarre http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/22/william-connolley-and-wikipedia-turborevisionism/. Unfortunately I didn't get to see the oringal version. In what is presumably deliberate irony, he has coined the term "Turborevisionism" to describe his own updating. And it possesses the...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 12:00 PM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: climate communication
Actually it turns out that this is part 3! But I'm not going to revise the title now. Part 1 and Part 2 refer, as does some digging. [Update: this made the [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-12-28/In the news]] ]...
Posted by William M. Connolley at 4:30 PM • 65 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
