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well I never!
Jimbo has posted at the Giovanni talk page, in a very measured and intelligent manner!The wiki never fails to surprise, and hopefully this will now cast good light on the situation and the article will...
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Jimbo at wikback.com
Jimbo's activities have been well and truly on my radar for the last couple of days, having made the comments referred to at the Giovanni article - they're having a wonderful effect, and the article is...
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wiki wheels keep on turning...
This poor neglected corner of blogger has been rather ignored for the last little while - so let's have a bit of a catch up.....I continue to post over at Wikback.com - although the Giovanni thread was...
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'checkuser' tools at wikipedia
I've getting a clearer and clearer picture about the goings on in the private office labeled 'checkuser' - and it's pretty erm.. interesting stuff.I think there's a serious problem there - with fairly...
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busy doin' nothing.....
ah january. so what's been going on?.....arbcom have shooed me away, I've been chatting away at wikback, I'm hoping the CU ombudsfolk will get back to me fairly soon, and I got a little involved in a...
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The strange webs one gets caught in with time on one's hands....
Geez - what an afternoon.Having heard of some of the stories mentioned below previously, I decided that I wanted to work out for myself what I thought had gone on. Here's my take on a famously heated,...
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i got seventeen days
so i'm at home with ray, sitting tight.still banned, still bad.see ya around!
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back once again....
...and gosh these are interesting times!No doubt inspired by these erudite scribblings, both Danny Wool and Larry Pieniazek (who is the user 'Lar' on wikipedia) have started blogs. They're both pretty...
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real life chats, and another ban......
the path to my updating this blog is so beautifully paved, that I thought I'd take a short stroll down it again.....Since getting back 'on-wiki' I've enjoyed starting a 'real life chat' project, which...
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oh the injustice of it all... and a peek behind the curtain
(yet) another PM rant to kick off... my trusty readers will know that a silly comment can get you a one week ban over at wikback.com - but only in some contexts, of course... sometimes silly is...
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more chit chats, and a month on the naughty step
well we've had some pretty interesting chats over at 'NotTheWikipediaWeekly' in the last little while - and over the weekend I joined the folk at 'Wikipedia Weekly' for my first conversation there! -...
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tuppence more from the naughty step
okey dokey - so I've finally remembered how to delete my cookies and this has restored my access to wikback.com - and I was a bit surprised to see that I have access to the 'Wikback Itself' forum (for...
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that time of the month
ok - so this is a bit of a blatant filler to try and prevent momentum entirely leaving this blog... I wouldn't want to disappoint either of my readers!I feel like there are quite a few irons in the...
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oh my word....
several other non-written up thoughts cross my mind at the moment - but I'm actually enjoying use of the word 'borked' too much to bother with them - here's the distilled version;The checkuser system...
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this month....
I have mostly been thinking about foundation issues - you know - stuff about the elections to the board of trustees... I've been trying to record brief conversations with each candidate... I'm gonna...
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wikipedia, scientology, and 'anonymous'
Bumping around the wiki a couple of months or so ago, I came across the whole series of articles on scientology - including several related 'featured' articles on pop culture topics, like Battlefield...
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asking for restrictions to be lifted.....
to edit BLPs or not to edit BLPs... that's the question rolling around some pages of the english wiki at the moment - and the question which has brought me back to this poor neglected blog. (are there...
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chapcom, wikiversity, mentoring, and 6 unanswerable questions
here's an update for my poor neglected blog.... a few of the goings on lately...I've been asked to help out the WMF Chapters Commitee with communications - I'm pretty interested and excited about that,...
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things that go 'bump' in the night....
how cool is this pic? Happy Halloween folks,I'm hoping to be able to add a thousand or so others to Commons before too long, and am enjoying learning how.....at some point I may write up something...
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arbcom elections
so I'm standing... really in the hope to try and get some attention for some ideas. In some ways it's hard to see wiki actually improving at the mo..... :-(Anywhoo... I just published today my '5 big...
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