On 6/1/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
A chastening read for those who think pop culture articles, and particularly pokemon, are just bits of cruft that only the editors of those articles can have any interest in.
On 6/1/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
"The top terms include very straightforward inquiries on human reproductive 'parts' and basic concepts of what sex is and how it is performed. It appears many people are learning about what sex is and how to have it by referencing Wikipedia."
Oh dear.
On 6/1/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/1/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
"The top terms include very straightforward inquiries on human reproductive 'parts' and basic concepts of what sex is and how it is performed. It appears many people are learning about what sex is and how to have it by referencing Wikipedia."
Oh dear.
One wonders how long before someone starts attributing sexual crimes to Wikipedia. "My son would never have raped that girl if *sob* he had never been on Wikipedia and learnt about sex! We must ban Wikipedia now before it hurts more families! Won't someone think of the children???"
Johnleemk
On 01/06/07, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/1/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/1/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
"The top terms include very straightforward inquiries on human reproductive 'parts' and basic concepts of what sex is and how it is performed. It appears many people are learning about what sex is and how to have it by referencing Wikipedia." Oh dear.
One wonders how long before someone starts attributing sexual crimes to Wikipedia. "My son would never have raped that girl if *sob* he had never been on Wikipedia and learnt about sex! We must ban Wikipedia now before it hurts more families! Won't someone think of the children???"
"My son went to Wikipedia to pick up chicks, and now he never leaves his room! He keeps coming out with this wild-eyed look, talking about 'hammers' and 'trowels' and talking about WP:CAPITALISEDGIBBERISH. We fear he may never actually reproduce."
- d.
On 6/1/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
"My son went to Wikipedia to pick up chicks, and now he never leaves his room! He keeps coming out with this wild-eyed look, talking about 'hammers' and 'trowels' and talking about WP:CAPITALISEDGIBBERISH. We fear he may never actually reproduce."
Little did young Billy realize that his beloved, sweet, NPOV-loving Brenda was actually... Bob from Syracuse, until that fateful day at RFCU.
Regards, Joe http://www.joeszilagyi.com
David Gerard stated for the record:
... WP:CAPITALISEDGIBBERISH.
Crap. I rushed to create it, but it already exists.
David Gerard wrote:
My son went to Wikipedia to pick up chicks, and now he never leaves
his room! He keeps coming out with this wild-eyed look, talking about 'hammers' and 'trowels' and talking about WP:CAPITALISEDGIBBERISH. We fear he may never actually reproduce.
Wow! For a kid that's only a few days old that's exceptionally precocious. ;-)
Ec
On 01/06/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
My son went to Wikipedia to pick up chicks, and now he never leaves his room! He keeps coming out with this wild-eyed look, talking about 'hammers' and 'trowels' and talking about WP:CAPITALISEDGIBBERISH. We fear he may never actually reproduce.
Wow! For a kid that's only a few days old that's exceptionally precocious. ;-)
My child is a daughter and her Wikipedia job is puking milk on me every time I questionably remove a {{spoiler}}. How's that for admin accountability.
- d.
David Gerard wrote:
On 01/06/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
My son went to Wikipedia to pick up chicks, and now he never leaves his room! He keeps coming out with this wild-eyed look, talking about 'hammers' and 'trowels' and talking about WP:CAPITALISEDGIBBERISH. We fear he may never actually reproduce.
Wow! For a kid that's only a few days old that's exceptionally precocious. ;-)
My child is a daughter and her Wikipedia job is puking milk on me every time I questionably remove a {{spoiler}}. How's that for admin accountability.
She could be putting her {{spoiler}}s onto your keyboard. Let me know when you do an RfA for her.
Ec
On 01/06/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
My child is a daughter and her Wikipedia job is puking milk on me every time I questionably remove a {{spoiler}}. How's that for admin accountability.
She could be putting her {{spoiler}}s onto your keyboard. Let me know when you do an RfA for her.
Oh, age three months. She only shits and screams when there's an actual reason, which puts her way ahead of the pack.
- d.
On 6/2/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, age three months. She only shits and screams when there's an actual reason, which puts her way ahead of the pack.
What kind of "'actual reason" do you need for shitting?
:)
Steve
On 02/06/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/2/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, age three months. She only shits and screams when there's an actual reason, which puts her way ahead of the pack.
What kind of "'actual reason" do you need for shitting? :)
When Daddy picks her up, usually. Then she has a BIG SMILE.
- d.
Steve Bennett wrote:
On 6/2/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, age three months. She only shits and screams when there's an actual reason, which puts her way ahead of the pack.
What kind of "'actual reason" do you need for shitting? :)
Being full of it.
Ec
On 6/1/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
On 01/06/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
My son went to Wikipedia to pick up chicks, and now he never leaves his room! He keeps coming out with this wild-eyed look, talking about 'hammers' and 'trowels' and talking about WP:CAPITALISEDGIBBERISH. We fear he may never actually reproduce.
Wow! For a kid that's only a few days old that's exceptionally precocious. ;-)
My child is a daughter and her Wikipedia job is puking milk on me every time I questionably remove a {{spoiler}}. How's that for admin accountability.
She could be putting her {{spoiler}}s onto your keyboard. Let me know when you do an RfA for her.
Ec
That won't be necessary. See [[Wikipedia:Primogeniture]].
By the way, does anyone have a script or whatever one would use to actually make the double brackets link to the articles for Gmail? ~~~~
I'm a firefox user, and I found an extension called "Wikipedia Lookup Extension". It doesn't wikify links, but it does give you a right-click menu item to open Wiki on whatever you highlight. It's here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/744
Oh, and if you load it, go to Tools > Add-ons and pull up the options for the extension. It appears you have to set your language, and it defaults to Norsk.
InkSplotch
On 6/2/07, Rich Holton richholton@gmail.com wrote:
Gabe Johnson wrote:
That won't be necessary. See [[Wikipedia:Primogeniture]].
By the way, does anyone have a script or whatever one would use to actually make the double brackets link to the articles for Gmail? ~~~~
Or for Thunderbird.
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On 6/1/07, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
One wonders how long before someone starts attributing sexual crimes to Wikipedia. "My son would never have raped that girl if *sob* he had never been on Wikipedia and learnt about sex! We must ban Wikipedia now before it hurts more families! Won't someone think of the children???"
Sounds uncannily similar to the Conservopedia "perspective"[0] http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Sex&diff=26713&oldid=26...
[0] I think they are taking the piss, despite the outward posture of seriousness (hence the [[scare quotes]]).
—C.W.
Hmmm...says it's redirected and protected to prevent re-creation. Shouldn't that be pro-creation?
Risker
On 6/1/07, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/1/07, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
One wonders how long before someone starts attributing sexual crimes to Wikipedia. "My son would never have raped that girl if *sob* he had
never
been on Wikipedia and learnt about sex! We must ban Wikipedia now before
it
hurts more families! Won't someone think of the children???"
Sounds uncannily similar to the Conservopedia "perspective"[0] http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Sex&diff=26713&oldid=26...
[0] I think they are taking the piss, despite the outward posture of seriousness (hence the [[scare quotes]]).
—C.W.
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On 6/1/07, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Hmmm...says it's redirected and protected to prevent re-creation. Shouldn't that be pro-creation?
Now that's the funniest thing I've heard today.
—C.W.
Charlotte Webb stated for the record:
Sounds uncannily similar to the Conservopedia "perspective"[0] http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Sex&diff=26713&oldid=26...
[0] I think they are taking the piss, despite the outward posture of seriousness (hence the [[scare quotes]]).
WTF?!? m (Protected "Sex": redoing protect [edit=sysop:move=sysop])
I thought protected sex was a violation of family values!
On 6/1/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/1/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
"The top terms include very straightforward inquiries on human reproductive 'parts' and basic concepts of what sex is and how it is performed. It appears many people are learning about what sex is and how to have it by referencing Wikipedia."
Oh dear.
Beats many other sources they could find, to be honest.
Plus, what do you bet the most looked up entries in high school students' dictionaries are? The most looked at pages in their biology textbooks? ;)
-Matt
G'day Stevo,
On 6/1/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
"The top terms include very straightforward inquiries on human reproductive 'parts' and basic concepts of what sex is and how it is performed. It appears many people are learning about what sex is and how to have it by referencing Wikipedia."
Oh dear.
That would actually be a Good Thing (just think where else they could get the info), if they were actually reading the sex ed articles, rather than the vandalism ...
On 01/06/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I note it seems to be using WikiCharts and assuming that pageviews = search terms. Any ideas on how representative that's going to be, anyone?
On 01/06/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/06/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I note it seems to be using WikiCharts and assuming that pageviews = search terms. Any ideas on how representative that's going to be, anyone?
Unknown, but likely hardly at all representative of "things people looked up on en: Wikipedia" or "followed a link to that was intended to be en: Wikipedia." I find it hard to believe [[wiki]] is really that popular a subject - surmises on what's going on include disappointed Googlers on sex terms (who end up on a page of text with a link to a Wikipedian's penis) or people typing "wiki" or "wikipedia" into their search bar to get to the site.
When press etc ask about this (someone from the Economist did) I caution them that it's an accurate count of page hits, but not necessarily of "popularity" in any useful sense.
I'm not sure how we would measure that. Ideas?
- d.