Thread 107104737

Temporary accounts have now replaced IP addresses on English Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Temporary_accounts

>>107104737 (OP)
ok

>>107104737 (OP)
Was this to prevent the noticing going on, to see which middle eastern country was editing articles?

>>107104737 (OP)
oy vey status?

>>107104737 (OP)
It was high fucking time I guess
I don't think you can actually edit it anonymously though without wikitrannies immediately reverting your edits and banning you

>>107104737 (OP)
That was the best incentive to avoid unlogged retards trashing wiki. Now the jidf will save millions in bot farms because the retards of en.wiki (easily the most compromised lang.wiki even if they don't allow new articles by default)

>>107104737 (OP)
>WIKIPEDIA REMOVES IP ADDRESSES
They're still stored, you just need a special permission to view them. You don't need to be an admin, either.

I'm still only going to vandalize I mean edit from mobile connections. Pro tip: they never clean up valdalism if it's not obvious.

>>107105507
I still can't get over how Wikipedia banned its biggest editor who created the most articles and before he bounced he left a message on his talk page admitting to deliberately adding factual errors and copyright violations across his entire 1.5 million edits on the website.

>About a year after joining the project, I started creating articles. Some early creations from 2007 got tagged as [copyright violations]. A year later, they were still being tagged. I got added to some white-list at the time, and avoided adding OBVIOUS [copyright violations] and further scrutiny, but made no attempt to either stop or remove the ones I added. Guess what - that continued since then. Not just across the 93,000+ articles I created, but across the 1.5 million edits I made too. Tens of thousands (a low-end estimate) now have these issues. Have a look at any film article from before 1930, for example. And that's before I mention the countless deliberate errors on pages that have very few pages views. Was that person born on 21 June, or was it 12 June?

>So that moral obligation? Ha. Good luck with that. "The mess" is now your mess and the burden falls with YOU to fix it. Enjoy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lugnuts/Archive_61#Outgoing

Never understood it really. They could have easily just hashed them. Think of the amount of people killed by certain governments for editing articles without an account.

>>107104737 (OP)
Yup. Noticed that also.
>>107105708
Tragedy of the commons, because of this kind of niggerlicious behaviour

>>107106863
it was to keep the system open and visible to all. they've been pressured for years to do something about hiding addresses instead of forcing people to use accounts. not that it changes much, you can still easily see who is writing their own wikipedia pages to promote themselves or their fantasy history, people just delete it anyway and still know who the resident schizos are.

>>107105708
you should read the wiki pages on synthesizers and audio equipment. many of them are so poorly written, wrong and make up fantasy terms for things that don't exist, they were written by idiots reading advertising material, magazines and making shit up. i made a lot of edits over the years just because autism to correct my favourite subject. even worse is that there's rarely any technical information about how the computers in the synths work. apparently musicians are too fucking retarded to be educated about what kind of cpu it has and how much fucking ram it has.
> why yes.. we'll use amount of notes as a measure of capacity
NIGGERS.

>>107104823
you are polish and you will crawl back to your shithole if you don't want to be killed when america collapses, schlomo.

>>107106902
>open and visible, but you can hide it by just making an account.
Doesn't make any sense. Never did. Never will. As useful as it is to be able to see when various groups were brigading articles, it also allowed a great deal of malicious behavior by state actors.

Frankly, I'm amazed it took this long to change. But then again, it wouldn't be wikipedia without torturous bureaucracies and policies based on nothing more than >muh tradition.

Early Life Check???

why did they do this?

>>107104834
I edit plant articles all the time. I'm glad they're removing IP. They replace your IP with an account that is the same account and follows you around.
I have done this for years. I never had anything changed because I put correct information in.

>>107105708
Based
How can text on a subject to be copyright? Or was it files of audio or something? Who gives a fuck, fuck copyright.

>>107104823
>>107107793
Why are you responding to yourself?

>>107109071
>Frankly, I'm amazed it took this long to change. But then again, it wouldn't be wikipedia without torturous bureaucracies and policies based on nothing more than >muh tradition.
The top priority is getting Jimbo's tree fiddy beg banners out

>>107104737 (OP)
god i'm gonna kill myself

i had a ZIM file of the 2018 wikipedia with images saved, but my hard drive died in a power surge
now only the 2024 one is available, so i guess you better snag that quick
first the FAGGOT MOBILE UI rolled out on the EN version first, now this

>>107106958
>you should read the wiki pages on synthesizers and audio equipment. many of them are so poorly written, wrong and make up fantasy terms for things that don't exist, they were written by idiots reading advertising material, magazines and making shit up.
The articles on subjects I'm familiar with are also mostly super bad. And I don't even mean that they get complicated details wrong. There's stuff like wrongly atributed quotes for example because the wiki author confused the editor of an edited volume with the author of the actual chapter.

It seems a lot of wikipedia is just cobbled together haphazardly. But we only realize it in the topics we're personally familiar with when it's probably a systemic issue.

>>107109071
>Frankly, I'm amazed it took this long to change. But then again, it wouldn't be wikipedia without torturous bureaucracies and policies based on nothing more than >muh tradition.
The top priority is getting Jimbo's tree fiddy beg banners out

Wikipedia is perennially butthurt by Elon Musk now, they will do all sorts of stunts for attention. They have even tried to revoke Jimbo Wales "founder" privileges since Jimbo is basically Wikipedia's Musk.

>>107110460
>https://archive.org/search?query=wikipedia_en_all

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>>107106958
>you should read the wiki pages on synthesizers and audio equipment. many of them are so poorly written, wrong and make up fantasy terms for things that don't exist, they were written by idiots reading advertising material, magazines and making shit up
This also applies to stuff related to India, which is often written in broken English and often reads like straight up propaganda. I was looking at the pages on 6G a while back and was directed towards some jeetspeak rambling about how India is going to be the global leader in 6G by 2030.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_India#Future
>aimed at making India global leader by 2030 in the next generation 6G communication technology, has 7 working focused on 7 different important aspects of 6G
7 working what? I also come across articles all the time that have been tagged as being inadequate in some way, often over a decade ago. I found one from 2011 at one point that nobody had touched in the 13-14 years since. The site is a mess.

>>107111904
This. They're afraid.

>>107112090
>who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis
kek

>>107113390
I just learned Chauvin and Floyd used to work together and I don't know what to do with this information.