...from some material on his talk page, it appears as if wikitruth may be trolling him, in which case the comment on (one revision of) the Wikitruth main page that he maintains an "official" Wikitruth mirror might be part of that effort.
Please ignore my earlier comment.
The way I interpret is that a system at an IP the Wikitruth people believe to belong to David Gerard made a large download (probably a scraping, possibly a series of Mediawiki XML downloads via the Special:Export feature) of their wiki. They thought they'd make a wry joke out of it.
Bizarrely, some of the numbskulls at Wikipedia Review have interpreted the sign on that site mentioning David, along with Orlowski's comment that he believes it to be run by "Skip...[a] 30-year-old Silicon Valley IT professional...along with a dozen other Wikipedia administrators", to mean that David is involved, and constructed a strange conspiracy theory that has David Gerard, and by extension the entire Wikipedia Cabal, running WikiTruth as a kind of humor site.
On 4/17/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
Bizarrely, some of the numbskulls at Wikipedia Review have interpreted the sign on that site mentioning David, along with Orlowski's comment that he believes it to be run by "Skip...[a] 30-year-old Silicon Valley IT professional...along with a dozen other Wikipedia administrators", to mean that David is involved, and constructed a strange conspiracy theory that has David Gerard, and by extension the entire Wikipedia Cabal, running WikiTruth as a kind of humor site.
Their inventiveness is only equalled by their stupidity, as always.
-Matt
On 4/17/06, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
Bizarrely, some of the numbskulls at Wikipedia Review have interpreted the sign on that site mentioning David, along with Orlowski's comment that he believes it to be run by "Skip...[a] 30-year-old Silicon Valley IT professional...along with a dozen other Wikipedia administrators", to mean that David is involved, and constructed a strange conspiracy theory that has David Gerard, and by extension the entire Wikipedia Cabal, running WikiTruth as a kind of humor site.
Coming in 2007, Dan Brown's _Jimbo Code_:
"A WP:OFFICE action in the silent after-hour pages of Wikipedia reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Nupedia. The victim is a high-ranking rouge admin of this ancient cabal who, in the moments before being banned, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his grandson, noted vandal Willy von Wheels, and Mr. Treason, a famed troll, can untangle. The duo become both suspects and detectives searching for not only Willy's grandfather's blocker but also the stunning secret of the encyclopedia he was charged to protect. Mere steps ahead of the ArbCom and the deadly competition, the mystery leads Willy and Treason on a breathless flight through AFD, RFA, and the edit history of [[Wikipedia]] itself."
(with apologies to the Amazon.com review department)
Kirill Lokshin
On 4/17/06, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
...manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his grandson, noted vandal Willy von Wheels, and Mr. Treason, a famed troll, can untangle.
With the inevitable breathtaking climax filmed in Trenton, New Jersey, no expense spared. Docket number available on request.
On 4/17/06, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote: ...
Coming in 2007, Dan Brown's _Jimbo Code_:
"A WP:OFFICE action in the silent after-hour pages of Wikipedia reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Nupedia. The victim is a high-ranking rouge admin of this ancient cabal who, in the moments before being banned, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his grandson, noted vandal Willy von Wheels, and Mr. Treason, a famed troll, can untangle. The duo become both suspects and detectives searching for not only Willy's grandfather's blocker but also the stunning secret of the encyclopedia he was charged to protect. Mere steps ahead of the ArbCom and the deadly competition, the mystery leads Willy and Treason on a breathless flight through AFD, RFA, and the edit history of [[Wikipedia]] itself."
(with apologies to the Amazon.com review department)
Kirill Lokshin
Would it be spoiling the plot to mention that the secret the cabal is trying to suppress is nothing less than the destruction of the Sacred Vandalism in religion, and the hidden truth that Wikipedia is Communism?
~maru SOLLOG KNEW THAT THE TRUTH ABOUT WIKIPEDIA WOULD BE DISCOVERED ONE DAY.
maru dubshinki wrote:
On 4/17/06, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote: ...
Coming in 2007, Dan Brown's _Jimbo Code_:
"A WP:OFFICE action in the silent after-hour pages of Wikipedia reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Nupedia. The victim is a high-ranking rouge admin of this ancient cabal who, in the moments before being banned, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his grandson, noted vandal Willy von Wheels, and Mr. Treason, a famed troll, can untangle. The duo become both suspects and detectives searching for not only Willy's grandfather's blocker but also the stunning secret of the encyclopedia he was charged to protect. Mere steps ahead of the ArbCom and the deadly competition, the mystery leads Willy and Treason on a breathless flight through AFD, RFA, and the edit history of [[Wikipedia]] itself."
(with apologies to the Amazon.com review department)
Kirill Lokshin
Would it be spoiling the plot to mention that the secret the cabal is trying to suppress is nothing less than the destruction of the Sacred Vandalism in religion, and the hidden truth that Wikipedia is Communism?
He did say it was a "rouge" admin.
Ec