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Caliban: [T]here thou mayst brain him, having first seiz'd his books. [...] Sometimes a thousand twangling[s] [...] will hum about mine ears; and sometimes voices[.] Stefano: [...] This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing. Caliban: When Prospero is destroyed. Stefano: I remember the story. [...] Lead, monster, we will follow.

Buffalo Bill, The Templates

Preface

Much of the material below links to wonders discovered after having wandered wide-eyed into the world of en.wiki's paratext, criticism sites ranging from the raging retribution (and spyware, be it said it is alleged) of Encyclopedia Dramatica (now hosted in Sweden) to the more Establishment-friendly Wikipediocracy, which has hosted many hard workers in the critical movement, but which has notoriously been accused of various vices, including being dominated by a # of white guys. Wikipedia Sucks, a forum I began participating on, was blown up for Valentine's Day 2017 (a former candidat for ArbCom announced it on the Wikipediocrat forum). As a result, I decided to be a traitor to the Dark Knight, who once felt force in me, and go fraternize with the pediocrats, on whom he, too, it should be said, keeps a close eye. ^^

As always in these cases, those who had furrowed away ideas in their mailboxes or in threads that they would archive later were greatly saddened when the site was exploded.

What I learned from this was interesting and helpful. Below, a look back and a look forward. Not sure this will lead to a climax, a resolution of drama, or even to any sort of moral, but it's stored here because I think it's useful to see the collateral damage of BLP/BCP legal disputes.

• BLP: biography of a living person. Note: redundance of bio and living
• BCP: biography of a corporate person.

Wiki-courts

SCoW or Arbitration/Requests/Case: bot on trial

AE or Arbitration/Enforcement/Request: 1 | 2 | 3

The Rogolian Threads

Rogol wants to write himself into the deaths of Wikipedia. According to Wikipedia, which Rogol possibly wrote, he is an emperor from a society once riven by the battles of the Arispammiens & the Nephlibarres, or something like that. The Dark Knight and HRA do not like such poetic chatterboxing. Still he's not a bad gambiteer.

• After Criticism, What is to be Done? 1 | 2 | 3 | 4
• Engineering Vice 1 | 2
• Under-ambitious greatest gift to civilization, like, ever or an over-clerked MUD? 1 | 2 | [... fighting ...] | 5 | 6 | [7]
• Sent to the Data Mines 1

The King's Indian Puzzle

Dark Knight! You've solved the puzzle, right? (White's center is toast)

biblio-bound: The Decline of Stack Overflow / The Xanadu model. Thanks, KI. :)

aiki wiki

of matrices & mushrooms HRA v. WWHP

aiki ikia, the six petals of

Wikipedia Review

Place du Ralliement

A hoax, deletions, and redirected leaks

• LynnWysong discovers a well-made hoax.
• In that thread, Andy the Grump makes a serendipitous / weird link to Jokestress, writing on BoingBoing
• While Wikipediants like to make fun of those who confuse WP, Wikia, and WikiLeaks, according to one wikixpert, historically speaking, there was some early Wikian succor afforded to Wikileaks, in the form of redirects. (Wikia press-release)