On 1/4/06, Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/4/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
This is a serious push to reform Wikipedia as a network of users linked according to beliefs and preferences that can be accessed by a point-of-view pusher at the touch of a button.
This isn't a conspiracy, it's tinfoil hattery. I'll believe the conpsiracy theories when I see a conspirator.
I make no claims about conspiracy. The purpose of creating a userbox is to permit users of a certain type (originally, with certain useful skills) to be quickly identified. The purpose of creating a political or religious userbox is to enable users with common beliefs to be identified quickly. Of the userboxes listed on the beiefs page, over 90% were created since December 1, and a substantial number of those were created within the past couple of weeks, so it's definitely a push.