7 posts tagged “wikipedia”
For what, you ask? Get this: creating disambiguation pages--yes, for following Wikipedia guidelines, I'm blocked...indefinitely...again--by the same admin who banned me before for a week. Fucking ridiculous. And I've been such a good little Wikilemming and haven't been uncivil to anyone since my last reinstatement--really! Golly...not only must you be a little priss, you can't even contribute too much or the big bad admins don't wike it! Wah! Cry me a fucking river, weenies--seriously, let it all flow out into the ocean of over-emotion. Jesus H. Fucking Christ...(just what does the H stand for anyway?)
Anyway, on a more serious note (well, not really but I'm bored), I'm trying to get my 3D game comparison converted to a content management system so people (that's me, basically, since no one else seems to be interested) can add/update it more easily without having to mess with some big-ass table (BAT™) or settle on single-page lists and cheesy framed comparisons of games not in the BAT™ (it's trademarked, damn it--use it and I sue!) Eh...hey, it's only been ~7 years in the making!
Well, another admin reviewed my unblock request and changed the ban to a 1-day block (well, 1.5-day including the ~12 hours from the initial block). I may bring an admin review against the admin who did a hasty indefinite ban against me without going through normal arbitration procedures. The previous admin who blocked me for a week also evaded discussion directly related to edit reversions (which is what I was partially blocked over). Damned if I do, damned if I don't, it seems... I hate politics and bureaocracy!
Well, that didn't take long. Despite playing Wikipedia's consensorship games, and contributing GREATLY to it, I still get the boot based on Wikipedia's far-too-anal "civility" policy (more like be a good little lemming and do not dare dissent from the "appeal to majority" fallacy). Typical--online oppression is dispensed FAR too easily.
Welp, now I'm blocked for a week because I tried to improve Wikipedia's craptacular disambiguation navigation system, which is inconsistent, contradictory, and hypocritical. Typical.
The problem with Wikipedia is it's too easily controlled by bias (what it dubs "consensus"). A group of people may not agree with one thing one week, but the next week (month, or year), consensus may change. It's like democracy on crack (which itself is just the "appeal to majority" fallacy)--and even worse when combined with capitalism where it then also becomes an "appeal to money" fallacy (which is just another kind of majority). Ridiculous.
I really don't know why I even bother trying to improve things--no one seems to want improvement. Everything I've come across I try to improve, but end up meeting heavy resistance. What's the point?
This is a scan of Steamshovel Press #1, 1988, from Philip Gounis, sent to me to resolve a dispute over the Steamshovel Press Wikipedia article. I have only cropped/rotated it.
This time for a "revert war", regarding my handling of "disambiguation" pages. How anal can Wikipedia be about pages that are lists of links to other articles? Geez...and then I try and use their own rule (set index articles, which is on the damn disambiguation page and appears nowhere else in Wikipedia policies/guidelines besides in the Manual of Style disambiguation guideline) against them and I still get the shaft. Go figure...
Like almost every other web-based community (Active Worlds, IRC, SecondLife), Wikipedia is a dictatorship with power in the few over the many. See this for the whole story. I hate wiktators (wiki+dictator).
Is Wikipedia a wiktality?
Wikipedia may very well be a "consensorship". The term "consensorship" may have very well been first used by Wikipedian user Cyan (since a Google search comes up with very few hits and all the others are newer). The term is a combination of "consensus" and "censorship". See Wikipedia's consensus policy.
Wikipedia consensorship deleted Eep (after 7 deletion nominations, now just an obscure 3-letter acronym EEP) but, thankfully, Wiktionary has seen the light: eep.
This was removed by an anonymous user on System 7 (Macintosh) (after it was added onto by another anonymous user)--so much for the result of the 7th deletion nomination to merge the info! I reformatted it so it
looks like a conversation instead and added it to WikiMac.
