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With all due respect to David, why is The Signpost covering his blog on Creative Commons that does not discuss Knowledge in any detail? I was under the impression that this section is for 'Knowledge or Wikimedia in the media', not 'what some admins are blogging about'. There is plenty of news from CC
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Anything about CC is related to Knowledge IMHO (Same for Section 230, IMHO). We report on a blog every 2-3 months. It just depends on the quality of the blog, and what they have to say. David Gerard's blockchain blog is the best source on everything related to crypto on the web. Though his sense of
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Initialisms are basically always title-cased, is the thing. The only exception is in the sciences, where they regularly talk about "DNA" but always write "deoxyribonucleic acid" uncapitalized. As for the rest of us, we write "ATM" even though it stands for "automated teller machine", a phrase that
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Desmond is advocating a highly idiosyncratic definition of "pornography" as applying only to illegal content. That might have been true 60 years ago, but currently, content that 99% of people would consider pornographic is completely legal in many Western countries. I expect that Desmond will have
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as a consequence of the fact that it's expanded from "ATM". (So, to put it another way, the expansion of an initialism is nearly always treated as a proper noun. At least until the acronym/initialism gets subsumed by the language entirely and detaches from its original expansion, as happened with
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Actually - no. When I wrote this I had no thought about anything related to German political parties. AfD is one of the most commonly used Wiki-abbreviations, and I think that fact, plus linking to the deletion discussion, and the word "deletion" in the previous and next sentences made it crystal
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senior program strategist Alex Stinson is quoted as saying "we need more people involved in this project", and that additional volunteers on those projects would help keep out "conspiracy theories and bad information". Yumiko Sato, a US-based Japanese writer who previously wrote on the issue for
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I don't agree that anything about Creative Commons is related to Knowledge (and equivalent to coverage in the media of Knowledge). There are many different Creative Commons licenses that aren't relevant, and the arcana of copyright licensing isn't always relevant to the task of writing a
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The story has been reported in multiple other publications, and the AfD received nearly 70,000 page views in the last week. The length of the AfD will soon surpass twice the length of the previous record holder. Currently, !voters are strongly in favor of keeping the article, and a
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crowd-sourced encyclopedia. In this particular instance, coverage of what the Creative Commons organization is sharing on social media is unrelated to how Knowledge is covered. (Of course, this does not preclude covering this issue in another section of the Signpost.)
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The second half of Professor Tomb's quote above should do it. "I have read the Knowledge page, and it seems to me careful and balanced. Therefore attempts to remove it can only be ideologically motivated – to whitewash Communism." I think he approves of the
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Croatian Knowledge has certainly gotten better since the old admin team was ousted (in part thanks to yours truly). Let's also not forget that it also used to have a lot of anti-LGBT stuff on there too, so honestly I would be surprised if they
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says that "several foreign-language Knowledge pages seen by BBC News are promoting conspiracy theories and making misleading claims about climate change". The languages in question include Belarusian, Chinese, Croatian, Kazakh and Swahili.
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deny climate change. That wiki represented the confluence of many different far-right agendas pretty much held together by a group of 4 or so admins. There's still a lot of work that needs to be done to erase the damage they caused.
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Lawyers acting for the businessman this week asked Knowledge administrators to investigate edits to the page, actively monitor it in case the word is reinstated, and keep “genuine, factually correct, edits by Mr Desmond” on the
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This story, to me, was the biggest mystery of the month. What did he hope to accomplish by doing this? Did he intentionally leak his lawyers' work for some reason? Who else would have leaked the legal work? His lawyers?
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In isolation, "Articles for Discussion" would probably just become "AD", when made into an initialism; "AfD" would be used if the 'f' came from somewhere inside the word that started with "A".
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for a more complete listing of news stories about Knowledge. Do you want to contribute to "In the media" by writing a story or even just an "in brief" item? Edit next month's edition in the
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Japanese and Croatian wikipedia (among others) already have some content problems regarding nationalism, how are you guys surprised they're also pushing climate change denial? -
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isn't capitalized that way. I think it's mostly that "Afd" looks stupid, and "AFD" is obviously wrong since "for" would not be capitalized in any case. A compromise, I suppose.
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I was thinking that Fox News would wait until after the deletion discussion is concluded to write an article, but I guess they are too eager to push an anti-communist agenda.
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The imbroglio originates from Desmond's claim that material must be illegal for it to be classified as "pornography", instead preferring the use of the term "adult material".
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world that we never cover. Considering his blog is monetized (at the very least it is advertising his books), I am not sure we are following the best practices here. --
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I have read the Knowledge page, and it seems to me careful and balanced. Therefore attempts to remove it can only be ideologically motivated – to whitewash Communism.
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X — but TeX is a bad example all around, since the original name is actually made up of the Greek letters tau, epsilon, and chi. It's not an initialism at all, and
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The use of the term ‘pornographer’ when applied to our client is at least factually wrong, gratuitous and insulting, and at most commercially damaging,” they wrote.
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to get some longstanding errors in her Knowledge biography fixed. The items in question, birth date and middle name, were unsourced and added by IPs years ago, in
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I fail to see why his view is important on this subject, being a historian in one subject does not automatically make you an authority on all historical subjects
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little success with any lawsuit, based on an objective evaluation of the content of the various magazines and websites that Desmond used to publish.
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So, there's pretty strong precedent for "AfD", or... well, nearly anything and everything else you can think of, TBH. English has always been an
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skewed reporting. It has embraced the "culture war" and seems to have a thing for Knowledge bashing. It uncritically published an
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Was the question directed at you? Why are you harassing me and reverting my edits across multiple articles? It's weird behaviour.
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remains in the article. None of the editors who removed the word appear to work for Desmond. Several prominent editors have been
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yes a "highly idiosyncratic" definition. I think folks in the US would have laughed at his definition starting about 1974? when
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It is not clear which "Knowledge administrators" he asked to monitor the article. Due to a belated request for comment, and the
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initialisms being used in the same linguistic space, all bets are off as to how they're forced to be distinct from each other.
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side worth mentioning. Perhaps there was none when they wrote it. Or they thought that all their arguments were nonsense.
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The person literally said that they can't be certain, so I'm pretty sure they don't know anything the rest of us don't.
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A conspiracy theory about the AfD, that's something completely new. Usually, conspiracy theories come FROM the AfD.
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Fun Fact: In the second section it says " this AfD entry." In Germany, there is a far-right political party called
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was nominated for the axe for the fourth time under this name (and had been nominated twice before under the name
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There's also the further tradition of constructing backronyms from pre-selected initialisms/acronyms, and taking
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holiday, the WMF legal department was unable to state whether Desmond or his representatives had contacted them.
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tending to favor Desmond's point of view. Perhaps the most surprisingly prolific editor on the article has been
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But don't take it so seriously, that should be meant as a joke: "where there is trouble, the afd is not far" -
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Almost everything we cover at "In the media" is monetized. It would be silly to exclude for that reason. ☆
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if benchmarking political influence, the English wikipedia entry on Imelda Marcos remains a highlight.
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in electronic works of art). CC denies that they are promoting NFTs, saying instead that they are simply
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When Knowledge editors or off-wiki publications need photos of video game consoles, they get them from
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reported that they'd seen a legal document stating that Desmond would take action against Knowledge.
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because of "unregistered editors flooding this page with excessive requests for a page rename".
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Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography: Will they deny non-fungible tokens next?
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clear what the subject was. But at least now I know how bizarre conspiracy theories are born.
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While the term "pornographer" was removed three times from the article in the days following
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came out and wasn't shut down. When did this level of legal obvious porn come out in the UK?
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No, I wasn't surprised. I just thought I'd let Wikipedians know that it's popped up again.
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After the discussion closes as keep/no consensus there's not much of a story for Fox etc.
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I see Fox picked "would be truly Orwellian" and "Stop left and woke censorship," from the
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organization (CC) engaging in what he calls "promotion". He believes that CC is promoting
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side. Not necessarily a better approach, IMO, but they have their customers to think of.
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Knowledge users try to change Waukesha 'parade car rampage' entry to 'parade incident'
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Nathaniel White being mistakenly placed in the Knowledge article on totally unrelated
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Knowledge may delete entry on 'mass killings' under Communism due to claims of bias
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And why is that? What's been decided and by whom? Do you know something we don't?
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Students are told not to use Knowledge for research. But it's a trustworthy source
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Holocaust 6 million deaths, communism-related 100 million deaths? No words.... --
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article mentioned at the very end of this one, runs the Instagram account
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Good point, but how are you certain it will close as keep/no consensus?
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Frankly, it has always been weird to me that we type "AfD", considering
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Climate change: Conspiracy theories found on foreign-language Wikipedias
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is practically the norm there. Both in real life, and in fiction.
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Richard Desmond doesn't like being called a "former pornographer"
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at the AfD and has previously edited the article extensively.
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It may reflect a "no publicity is bad publicity" mindset.--
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The Denial Files 5. 'We fight climate denial on Knowledge'
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earlier this year. An upmarket Fox for British retirees?
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serial killer Nathaniel White for more than two years.
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One editor dismissed the professor's concerns, saying "
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Denial: climate change, mass killings and pornography
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Climate change denial on foreign-language Wikipedias
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