What a ridiculous idea! It completely defeats the purpose of having a wiki, _especially_ if they're going to run it like Nazis!
--Ryan
PS. Somebody please tell them to stop using our name. Something tells me that I might go to Hell/be excommunicated (yeah, somebody's going to the give the Pope my IP) if I post on a neo-Nazi forum.
> From: <andyl2004(a)sympatico.ca>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] A neo-Nazi wikipedia
>
> The neo-Nazi site "Stormfront" operated by Don Black is preparing
> to launch its own "Stormfront Wikipedia" via Mediawiki
>
> http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=223684
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I find the idea laughable. Wikis tend to produce nuetral viewpoints, so a
bigoted wiki would be hard to create, unless they require registration and
ban any users who disagree with them... but they'd have to make it harder to
register to stop people from just making up a new name and pass on the spot.
On 8/19/05, andyl2004(a)sympatico.ca <andyl2004(a)sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> The neo-Nazi site "Stormfront" operated by Don Black is preparing to
> launch its own "Stormfront Wikipedia" via Mediawiki
>
> http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=223684
>
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Hi I was reading your post about personal attacks, to avoid personal attacks is just how it sounds. Avoid using the word "you". If someone wants to point something out as being hypocritical, they should use language such as that was a hypocritical statement, not you are a hypocrite. Calling someone a hypocrite implies they are a hypocrite in general, and not just being a hypocrite about a certain topic.
ANDREA MARTIN
This is a question that has occurred to me in the context of arbitration,
and how to avoid it.
There's a common personality type for trouble on Wikipedia: brittle in
interactions with others, can't tolerate ambiguity, so gets into
rules-lawyering. Sees "common sense" and "judgement" mostly as excuses to
exercise bias, not as recognition that all rules are fluid in the pursuit
of our goal.
I am not thinking of any individual, but of a general type I've noticed. I
think something about Wikipedia will tend to attract them. I would *guess*
it's something that attracts people from further up the autistic spectrum
than the general populace, but that's just speculation.
The point is that they're good and hard-working contributors, but can get
difficult to work with. And putting them on a processing line that leads to
arbitration strikes me as not being a good thing. Is there a better way?
I welcome your thoughts and speculation.
- d.
I live nowhere near Chicago, but I wish you the best of luck in setting up your Meetup!
--Ryan
> From: Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin(a)gmail.com>
>
> I'm trying to get a group together for a Chicago-area meetup. If
> interested, contact me at the obvious address or drop me a note at
> [[User talk:Kelly Martin]].
>
> Thanks.
>
> Kelly
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Lester, though I wasn't the one to revert your additions. I have written
some explanation for you on your user talk page. I think your contributions
can be valuable so I hope that reverter didn't scare you away. Please stay!
Lisa
I am a Chinese-American of the third generation. I worked as a political
> negotiator, during the Iraq War in 1990. My college background is four
> years of college as a business management major and history minor. My
> family are very prominent Chinese people as my second cousin is China's
> renowned Premier Zhou Enlai. I am a member of China's Imperial family and
> a self-taught cultural expert on China and the Middle East.
>
> I wrote additions to the topics of "Eber," "Joktan," and the "Zhou
> Dynasty." My family's dynasty of which I am a qualified expert. In
> history, there are conflicting interpretations as to events and dates. I
> think that it is wrong to only allow one view to dominate and to not
> publish all valid views. Somehow, your editors erased what I had
> republished about two or three hours ago (my time, at this writing, is
> August 17, 2005, 11:10 p.m.). Then, too, I think that it is wrong for
> people (the general public) to erase all of the hard work and time that
> you
> have put into your article and to continually erase it every time you
> post.
>