Wikipedia Sucks! (And So Do Its Critics.): February 2023

I will probably take all of these IRC and make a book out of them with a running commentary.

Session Start: Tue Feb 16 17:41:16 2010

Session Ident: #wikimedia-ops

[17:41] * Now talking in #wikimedia-ops

[17:41] * Set by Rjd0060!~Rjd0060@wikimedia/Rjd0060 on Tue Feb 02 17:31:52

[17:41] -ChanServ- [#wikimedia-ops] Welcome to the home of the Wikimedia chanops. Questions, requests and the like can be filed here and we'll try to help. To find an operator for a particular channel, type "/quote chanserv access #channel list".

[17:41] -ChanServ- [#wikimedia-qc] Bienvenue sur le canal de l'�ventuel chapitre qu�b�cois de Wikim�dia! N'h�sitez pas � vous tirer une b�che et � jaser avec vos � chums �.

[17:41] -ChanServ- [#wikipedia-fr] Canal en UTF-8. La diffusion publique de journaux de ce canal est interdite. Merci de lire http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Canal_IRC et de contribuer à la bonne humeur du canal. Bonne journée !

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[17:52] <AntiSpamMeta> 04High risk threat [#wikipedia-en]: bubblesrr - distributed flooding; ping James_F, Cbrown1023, RichiH, DanielB, Prodego, theoneandonly, Rudha-an, Jake_Wartenberg, ST47, KB1JWQ, dave2, Werdan7, seanw, NotASpy, Tawker, wimt, Cobi, Thehelpfulone, |X|, agkwiki, JohnReaves, Mike42, Not_the_NSA, Luna-Santin, KFP, smoddy, Rjd0060, pctony, nixeagle, SeJo, PeterSymonds, Ryanposs, stwalkerster, Golbez, and shimgray

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[17:52] <AntiSpamMeta> !att-#wikipedia-en-high

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[18:06] -eir:#wikimedia-ops- (9REM) ban[17193] *!*@gateway/web/freenode/x-klvyxrmzpoeeoaew was set on #wikimedia-ops by killiondude!~Killiondu@wikimedia/Killiondude on 2010-02-15 19:51:16 with reason "Pickleboy" and had an expiry date of 2010-02-15 22:51:16. It was removed by killiondude!~Killer@wikimedia/Killiondude on Tue Feb 16 23:06:10 2010

[18:06] <killiondude> why thank you eir

[18:06] <Chzz_> eep

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[18:07] <killiondude> hey chzzzz

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[18:08] <Rjd0060> killiondude: What is "Pickleboy"?

[18:08] <killiondude> PMBL

[18:08] <Rjd0060> *PBML

[18:08] <killiondude> Sure.

[18:08] <Rjd0060> Pickbothmanlol?

[18:08] <Rjd0060> Why are we calling him Pickleboy now?

[18:08] <killiondude> It was a lame ban. Mostly because CZ sucks.

[18:09] <killiondude> I call him pickelboy. It's easier to remember.

[18:09] <killiondude> and type.

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[18:09] <Rjd0060> k

[18:10] <Rjd0060> I thought maybe he had a new MO.

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[18:13] <killiondude> Ah.

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[19:02] <AntiSpamMeta> 02Info risk threat [#wikipedia-en]: Dracula1r - host 26.42.8.67.cfl.res.rr.com is in rbl.efnetrbl.org ( Open proxy ); ping Thehelpfulone, ST47, KB1JWQ, PeterSymonds, Werdan7, stwalkerster, Not_the_NSA, shimgray, Prodego, theoneandonly, wimt, Jake_Wartenberg, pctony, Rjd0060, and SeJo !att-#wikipedia-en-info

[19:02] <AntiSpamMeta> 04High risk threat [#wikipedia-en]: Dracula1r - distributed flooding; ping James_F, Cbrown1023, RichiH, DanielB, Prodego, theoneandonly, Rudha-an, Jake_Wartenberg, ST47, KB1JWQ, dave2, Werdan7, seanw, NotASpy, Tawker, wimt, Cobi, Thehelpfulone, |X|, agkwiki, JohnReaves, Mike42, Not_the_NSA, Luna-Santin, KFP, smoddy, Rjd0060, pctony, nixeagle, SeJo, PeterSymonds, Ryanposs, stwalkerster, Golbez, and shimgray

[19:02] <AntiSpamMeta> !att-#wikipedia-en-high

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[19:14] <AntiSpamMeta> 02Info risk threat [#wikimedia-ops]: Pit_108 - host 89.118.24.26 is in rbl.efnetrbl.org ( Open proxy ); ping Thehelpfulone, ST47, Kanonkas, KB1JWQ, PeterSymonds, Cbrown1023, Not_the_NSA, pctony, Rjd0060, and SeJo !att-#wikimedia-ops-info

[19:14] <Pit_108> /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/

[19:14] <AntiSpamMeta> 04High risk threat [#wikimedia-ops]: Pit_108 - distributed flooding; ping ST47, Thehelpfulone, Kanonkas, KB1JWQ, dave2, PeterSymonds, Cbrown1023, slakr, RichiH, Not_the_NSA, Rjd0060, pctony, and SeJo !att-#wikimedia-ops-high

[19:14] <Pit_108> /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/ /b/

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[19:14] <killiondude> hi

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[19:15] <RichiH> klined

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[19:35] <Thogo> o.O

[19:36] <Thogo> he probably just learned how to write a b at school. First grade, maybe...

[19:36] <dungodung> /b/?

[19:36] <dungodung> XD

[19:36] <dungodung> Thogo: I think it has something to do with 4chan

[19:36] <Thogo> and the teacher told them "Write 1000 b's until tomorrow to practice."

[19:37] <Thogo> 4chan?

[19:37] <Thogo> what's that?

[19:38] <dungodung> I wonder if there's an online resource of knowledge that you could search for that term :P

[19:38] <dungodung> or possibly a world wide web search-site :)

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[19:41] <Thogo> I have no idea.

[19:41] <Thogo> do you know one?

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[19:45] <Thogo> aha, reads as if it were a ragbag of trolls and other strange folks...

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[19:51] <dungodung> Thogo: yep, something like that xD

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[19:53] <Thogo> :)

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[21:47] <The_Thing> omg... I feel bad for bringing /b/'s wrath into -en... they think were monitoring them in there

[21:48] <Betacommand> The_Thing feel free to add their trollings to -alerts

Session Close: Tue Feb 16 21:54:32 2010

Above: This is from "Three Valentines" a season-six episode of Frasier. With this one bit of silent comedy David Hyde Pierce won the show an Emmy that year (1999).

Wikipedia Sucks! (And So Do Its Critics.)

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