I thought this was absolutely priceless...
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [HelpDesk-l] Complaint: Service abuse Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:49:48 +0000 From: <NAME REMOVED> Reply-To: Help desk for questions about Wikimedia projects helpdesk-l@Wikimedia.org To: helpdesk-l@wikimedia.org
Staff members of the world's biggest online encyclopedia,
I am writing this email in complaint to how easy the service can be abused by just about anyone on the internet. While in theory it is a positive idea to allow people to willingly submit or update articles, it gives anyone the power to submit nothing but complete nonsensical, biased and generally fictional information that does not reflect on the reality of the subject.
Today I was outraged in coming to terms with this when I realized an article of interest was willingly changed by someone who was clearly closed-minded and totally against the subject: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/FA
You may not know much on the subject, however, I believe that it would be fair a proposal to request changing your contribution system to allow all contributions to articles to be submitted directly to members of staff to review the contributions first, in order to confirm the certainty of the article by researching for facts about it online. If the contribution is approved, it can then be displayed in the article.
Further, I personally request that you remove the biased, untrue article edit and replace it with the much more accurate revision in the article's history: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=FA&oldid=47793 http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=FA&oldid=47793
Thank you very much for taking the time to read my email of concern, and thanks in advance for taking care of the situation in any way possible. - A Wikipedia user
Hahahahaha. BJAODN.
-Ryan
On 1/23/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
I thought this was absolutely priceless...
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [HelpDesk-l] Complaint: Service abuse Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:49:48 +0000 From: <NAME REMOVED> Reply-To: Help desk for questions about Wikimedia projects helpdesk-l@Wikimedia.org To: helpdesk-l@wikimedia.org
Staff members of the world's biggest online encyclopedia,
I am writing this email in complaint to how easy the service can be abused by just about anyone on the internet. While in theory it is a positive idea to allow people to willingly submit or update articles, it gives anyone the power to submit nothing but complete nonsensical, biased and generally fictional information that does not reflect on the reality of the subject.
Today I was outraged in coming to terms with this when I realized an article of interest was willingly changed by someone who was clearly closed-minded and totally against the subject: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/FA
You may not know much on the subject, however, I believe that it would be fair a proposal to request changing your contribution system to allow all contributions to articles to be submitted directly to members of staff to review the contributions first, in order to confirm the certainty of the article by researching for facts about it online. If the contribution is approved, it can then be displayed in the article.
Further, I personally request that you remove the biased, untrue article edit and replace it with the much more accurate revision in the article's history: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=FA&oldid=47793 http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=FA&oldid=47793
Thank you very much for taking the time to read my email of concern, and thanks in advance for taking care of the situation in any way possible.
- A Wikipedia user
-- Alphax - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax Contributor to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia "We make the internet not suck" - Jimbo Wales Public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax/OpenPGP
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On 1/23/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
I thought this was absolutely priceless...
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [HelpDesk-l] Complaint: Service abuse Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:49:48 +0000 From: <NAME REMOVED> Reply-To: Help desk for questions about Wikimedia projects helpdesk-l@Wikimedia.org To: helpdesk-l@wikimedia.org
Staff members of the world's biggest online encyclopedia,
I am writing this email in complaint to how easy the service can be abused by just about anyone on the internet. While in theory it is a positive idea to allow people to willingly submit or update articles, it gives anyone the power to submit nothing but complete nonsensical, biased and generally fictional information that does not reflect on the reality of the subject.
Today I was outraged in coming to terms with this when I realized an article of interest was willingly changed by someone who was clearly closed-minded and totally against the subject: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/FA
You may not know much on the subject, however, I believe that it would be fair a proposal to request changing your contribution system to allow all contributions to articles to be submitted directly to members of staff to review the contributions first, in order to confirm the certainty of the article by researching for facts about it online. If the contribution is approved, it can then be displayed in the article.
Further, I personally request that you remove the biased, untrue article edit and replace it with the much more accurate revision in the article's history: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=FA&oldid=47793 http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=FA&oldid=47793
Thank you very much for taking the time to read my email of concern, and thanks in advance for taking care of the situation in any way possible.
- A Wikipedia user
-- Alphax - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax Contributor to Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia "We make the internet not suck" - Jimbo Wales Public key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alphax/OpenPGP
Encyclopedia Dramatica isn't a mirror, is it? I think they got the wrong address.
Mgm
On 1/23/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Encyclopedia Dramatica isn't a mirror, is it? I think they got the wrong address.
Mgm
Encyclopedia Dramatica has nothing to do with us in any way shape or form other than useing the same family of software.
-- geni
On 1/23/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/23/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Encyclopedia Dramatica isn't a mirror, is it? I think they got the wrong address.
Mgm
Encyclopedia Dramatica has nothing to do with us in any way shape or form other than useing the same family of software.
-- geni
Then how did that message land on our doorstep? Mgm
MacGyverMagic/Mgm wrote:
On 1/23/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/23/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Encyclopedia Dramatica isn't a mirror, is it? I think they got the wrong address.
Mgm
Encyclopedia Dramatica has nothing to do with us in any way shape or form other than useing the same family of software.
Then how did that message land on our doorstep?
The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group. We are talking about LiveJournal users here... :)
On 1/23/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Then how did that message land on our doorstep? Mgm
Quite a few people appear to be under the impression that wiki=wikipedia. We get a lot of missdirected messages. Quite a lot about university aplications.
-- geni
On 1/23/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Quite a few people appear to be under the impression that wiki=wikipedia. We get a lot of missdirected messages. Quite a lot about university aplications.
And about joining our football (soccer to the Yanks) academy.
-- Sam
From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Sam Korn
On 1/23/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Quite a few people appear to be under the impression that wiki=wikipedia. We get a lot of missdirected messages. Quite a lot about university aplications.
And about joining our football (soccer to the Yanks) academy.
Our B-grade team did pretty good last year, considering. We have some amazing talent, but the flexible approach to rules is what scuttled us short of the finals. Only eleven players on the field at any one moment, OK?
As an aside, just how much are these people willing to pay for tuition?
Pete, who can whip up a convincing Wikicademy article at a moment's notice, complete with ivy-covered halls and photographs of our impressive sporting facilities
Peter Mackay wrote:
On 1/23/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Quite a few people appear to be under the impression that wiki=wikipedia. We get a lot of missdirected messages. Quite a lot about university aplications.
And about joining our football (soccer to the Yanks) academy.
Our B-grade team did pretty good last year, considering. We have some amazing talent, but the flexible approach to rules is what scuttled us short of the finals. Only eleven players on the field at any one moment, OK?
Too bad! There was a time when a whole English village would turn out to play against the whole neighboring village If the wrong balls got kicked it wqas viewed all as a part of the game.
As an aside, just how much are these people willing to pay for tuition?
Pay????? :-$ ?
Pete, who can whip up a convincing Wikicademy article at a moment's notice, complete with ivy-covered halls and photographs of our impressive sporting facilities
Hmmm. A moment's notice for what nobody will notice seems like a fair exchange.
Ec
From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Ray Saintonge
Peter Mackay wrote:
Pete, who can whip up a convincing Wikicademy article at a moment's notice, complete with ivy-covered halls and photographs of our impressive sporting facilities
Hmmm. A moment's notice for what nobody will notice seems like a fair exchange.
So where are these people applying to join our football academy coming from?
And I am reasonably confident that if I whipped up an article on this non-existent academy for the purpose of scamming money from the stupid and gullible, quite a few people would notice!
However, if you think we can get away with it, perhaps we could share in the modest profits?
Pete, picking out the colour scheme for his private Boeing
On 1/24/06, Peter Mackay peter.mackay@bigpond.com wrote:
So where are these people applying to join our football academy coming from?
Nigeria, apparently. Where we should also soon be expanding our range of aluminium pipes.
-- Sam
From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Sam Korn
On 1/24/06, Peter Mackay peter.mackay@bigpond.com wrote:
So where are these people applying to join our football
academy coming from?
Nigeria, apparently. Where we should also soon be expanding our range of aluminium pipes.
Odd that you should mention Nigeria. I have just this moment received a most generous business proposition which should set Wikipedia in funds for many years to come. It all checks out, according to the relevant but sadly mis-spelt WP articles, so that's OK.
Pete, who hadn't realised that Nigerian astronauts were on such huge salaries
On 23/01/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Quite a few people appear to be under the impression that wiki=wikipedia. We get a lot of missdirected messages. Quite a lot about university aplications.
It doesn't help that a large number of wikis that people run across run MediaWiki, which has a very recognisable "default style"...
-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
On 1/23/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/23/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Encyclopedia Dramatica isn't a mirror, is it? I think they got the wrong address.
Mgm
Encyclopedia Dramatica has nothing to do with us in any way shape or form other than useing the same family of software.
Actually, ED is a Wikipedia fork, much the way the Comixpedia wiki is: it was set up when a number of articles the founders thought important were deleted by VfD.
-- Mark Wagner [[User:Carnildo]]
Mark Wagner (carnildo@gmail.com) [060124 10:07]:
Actually, ED is a Wikipedia fork, much the way the Comixpedia wiki is: it was set up when a number of articles the founders thought important were deleted by VfD.
Somehow I don't consider that fork a bad thing. I wonder why that is.
- d.
Actually, ED is a Wikipedia fork, much the way the Comixpedia wiki is: it was set up when a number of articles the founders thought important were deleted by VfD.
ED and Uncyclopedia are two forks which benefit Wikipedia in two ways - they provide a place to blow off steam from Wikipedia and they provide a place for all the random Internet shite and bloggerel which may in some way be interesting to someone but is in no way particularly encyclopedic.
-FCYTravis
Plus don't forget. To 99% of people who send things like this, all wikis are Wikipedias, and we run all of them. Even harrypotter.slashopedia.org (for the love of god, that had better be not a real site.)
-Luigi30
Luigi30 wrote:
Plus don't forget. To 99% of people who send things like this, all wikis are Wikipedias, and we run all of them. Even harrypotter.slashopedia.org (for the love of god, that had better be not a real site.)
They'd better learn that Wikipedia is a registered trademark, and we are perfectly capable of suing them (you know where) :)
Travis Mason-Bushman wrote:
Actually, ED is a Wikipedia fork, much the way the Comixpedia wiki is: it was set up when a number of articles the founders thought important were deleted by VfD.
ED and Uncyclopedia are two forks which benefit Wikipedia in two ways - they provide a place to blow off steam from Wikipedia and they provide a place for all the random Internet shite and bloggerel which may in some way be interesting to someone but is in no way particularly encyclopedic.
Uncyclopedia is not a fork, it's a parody, and a damn funny one.
On 1/23/06 11:20 PM, "Alphax (Wikipedia email)" alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Travis Mason-Bushman wrote:
Actually, ED is a Wikipedia fork, much the way the Comixpedia wiki is: it was set up when a number of articles the founders thought important were deleted by VfD.
ED and Uncyclopedia are two forks which benefit Wikipedia in two ways - they provide a place to blow off steam from Wikipedia and they provide a place for all the random Internet shite and bloggerel which may in some way be interesting to someone but is in no way particularly encyclopedic.
Uncyclopedia is not a fork, it's a parody, and a damn funny one.
Either way, I simply meant "fork" in the broadest general sense of the term, meaning Wiki users related to Wikipedia but not on Wikipedia. And yes, I agree it's a damn funny one :)
-FCYTravis
Travis Mason-Bushman wrote:
On 1/23/06 11:20 PM, "Alphax (Wikipedia email)" alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Travis Mason-Bushman wrote:
Actually, ED is a Wikipedia fork, much the way the Comixpedia wiki is: it was set up when a number of articles the founders thought important were deleted by VfD.
ED and Uncyclopedia are two forks which benefit Wikipedia in two ways - they provide a place to blow off steam from Wikipedia and they provide a place for all the random Internet shite and bloggerel which may in some way be interesting to someone but is in no way particularly encyclopedic.
Uncyclopedia is not a fork, it's a parody, and a damn funny one.
Either way, I simply meant "fork" in the broadest general sense of the term, meaning Wiki users related to Wikipedia but not on Wikipedia. And yes, I agree it's a damn funny one :)
But there are also plenty of people who edit both.
geni wrote:
On 1/23/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Encyclopedia Dramatica isn't a mirror, is it? I think they got the wrong address.
Mgm
Encyclopedia Dramatica has nothing to do with us in any way shape or form other than useing the same family of software.
When did EB start operating a wiki? ;-)
Ec
And on the eighth day God invented the wheel, and the whole Goddamned thing started over again. - Wikigenesis 2:3A
:-) Ec
Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
I thought this was absolutely priceless...
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [HelpDesk-l] Complaint: Service abuse Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:49:48 +0000 From: <NAME REMOVED> Reply-To: Help desk for questions about Wikimedia projects helpdesk-l@Wikimedia.org To: helpdesk-l@wikimedia.org
Staff members of the world's biggest online encyclopedia,
I am writing this email in complaint to how easy the service can be abused by just about anyone on the internet. While in theory it is a positive idea to allow people to willingly submit or update articles, it gives anyone the power to submit nothing but complete nonsensical, biased and generally fictional information that does not reflect on the reality of the subject.
Today I was outraged in coming to terms with this when I realized an article of interest was willingly changed by someone who was clearly closed-minded and totally against the subject: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/FA
You may not know much on the subject, however, I believe that it would be fair a proposal to request changing your contribution system to allow all contributions to articles to be submitted directly to members of staff to review the contributions first, in order to confirm the certainty of the article by researching for facts about it online. If the contribution is approved, it can then be displayed in the article.
Further, I personally request that you remove the biased, untrue article edit and replace it with the much more accurate revision in the article's history: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=FA&oldid=47793 http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php?title=FA&oldid=47793
Thank you very much for taking the time to read my email of concern, and thanks in advance for taking care of the situation in any way possible.
- A Wikipedia user