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as just a few obvious examples). Still, I'm curious where this is supposed to be heading. And, since there's to be a compensation mechanism, do I get paid out by
Everipedia's blockchain for my 100,000+ WP edits here when they get imported into Everipedia, or does some script kiddie cash in on more than a decade of my work when she runs a few lines of code to copy a zillion WP articles into the new system? Kinda matters. Also: calling it anything-
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can understand why, in retrospect, given all the recent managerial resignations over the last week or so, and the statements that went with them. I'm not certain what's happening over there, but I have a pretty good idea, having been through several similar shakeups at other organizations. Knowledge (XXG) (and, necessarily, WMF) are at an
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A truly unfettered marketplace of ideas and "information" produces populist, falsehood-mired dreck (e.g., fake news, everything you see on 4Chan and
Facebook, the History Channel converting into an aliens and ghosts conspiracy network, and that planet-sized morass of bullshit we call the blogosphere,
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juncture point. This is a critical time for the entire organization to re-evaluate and reinvent itself in multiple ways, starting at the top. I would strongly urge the board to take a hands-on role in filling all the top slots in the staff. Take pains to preserve the institutional memory still left
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magazine): Sanger said in a recent interview, "I think
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actually grow legs (even accounting for all the blockchain hype that's going around). The idea is to open-source online encyclopedia writing even further, with a real-value reward structure, expert and public review, directly competing articles in a marketplace of content, and the writing/publishing
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ran them anyway, even though they were reporting on already-resolved trivia. This tells us that, while the press will sometimes grudgingly report good things about WP, they all feel threatened by it and will continue to make it look bad to their circulation if they can get away with it. This means
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I'm not privy to all the goings-on over at, and inside, WMF, though I was at the 15th
Anniversary Party and the mini-conference the day after, at WFM's offices, in January. None of the senior staff were present, and while the attendees were all in good cheer, the employees did not seem to be. One
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At least we know it's happening for certain. I've been warning for years that the #1 problem WP will face in the long run isn't vandals, or its own internal squabbles among editors, or an administrative crisis (though that is #2), but well-organized, secretly funded, professional editing to
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to slowly turn all
Pakistan-related articles into material that is at the level of Pakistani-nationalist elementary school indoctrination textbooks is just the tip of the iceberg. Pakistan simply got caught because they pushed it a hair too far too fast. This
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policy is being ignored with increasing impunity, and this will prove disastrous to the whole project if it is not rectified quickly, since it's obviously leading to root-level fractures in the enforceability of core policies like
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programmatically distort the truth to advance socio-political agendas. I'm sad to be proven correct so quickly. Pakistan's government being engaged in a pattern of
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