Secret Mailing List Rocks Wikipedia

privatemusings writes "Wikipedians are up in arms at the revelations that respected administrators have been discussing blocking and banning editors on a secret mailing list. The tensions have spilled over throughout the 'encyclopedia anyone can edit' and news agencies are sniffing around. The Register has this fantastic writeup — read it here first." The article says that some Wikipedians believe Jimbo Wales has lost face by supporting the in-crowd of administrators and rebuking the whistle blower who leaked the existence of the secret mailing list.

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Yeah, that's about what I thought

[Anonymous Coward]

some Wikipedians believe Jimbo Wales has lost face by supporting the in-crowd of administrators and rebuking the whistle blower who leaked the existence of the secret mailing list.

Oh, I'm sorry, were we talking about 8th grade?

Re:Yeah, that's about what I thought

[rucs_hack]

Seriously, this is just a bunch of useless trolls (who exist in every community) trying to present themselves as big, important, and note worthy to the world

You got a citation for this?

Re:Yeah, that's about what I thought

[smittyoneeach]

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=chevy+citation&gbv=2
Buddy and I went cross-country in it. 74 hours from the western edge of Idaho to Rhode Island. Leaky valve cover gasket--took a quart of oil every 750 miles. Drove on the top half of the gas tank, never shut it off longer than it took to gas it, as there was some doubt she'd turn over from cold iron. We had paid something like $500 cash for the beast. Odometer read ~80,000 miles, but an old registration in the glove compartment revealed a higher number. It had been rolled over, or rolled back.
We were only slightly older than the 8th-graders in question here.
Coming full cirle, then, it's a simple matter of organizational behavior that there be an out-of-band communications channel in Wikipedia for the smallish number of folks who've "done the road trip" together, so to speak.
The only real surprise here is that people seem to think that rules of organizational behavior would somehow not apply in a cyberspace context.

Appropriate

[halcyon1234]

Hrm, I just finished posting my last comment in another thread, and now I'm thinking the quote would have been more appropriate here.

In related news:

[Glowing Fish]

A user on community.livejournal.com/ultimate_fashion is complaining that livejournal users mindyminx16 and sassykitty91 totally control the entire community over secret aim chats.

Not true - I checked

[DuncanE]

No.. there's no secret mailing list - I checked Wikipedia and it said so. Said it was not "not notable" or something.

greatest moment

[nude-fox]

http://xkcd.com/351/

Truth

[greyninja.com]

this topics has been edited to be wikifriendly Your Overlord

Re:wiki == worthless

[Chris Kamel]

Clearly, English is not one of those areas :)

Re:I wrote this essay over a year ago...

[siwelwerd]

There's no such thing as absolute truth

*Ahem*

http://xkcd.com/263/

Where's Jimbo?

[ToiletDuck]

Isn't it time for him to come in here and tell us that it isn't a big deal and how we're all being trolled?

Re:I wrote this essay over a year ago...

[Trent Hawkins]

Maybe you can't get a wikipedia that's absolutely ture, however you can get a wikipedia that's stir-fried!

As an admin, I must say I'm disappointed...

[Suddenly_Dead]

... that no one invited me to the super secret treehouse mailing list. :(

Obviously there is no secret mailing list:

[smeckert]

go to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=secret+mailing+list&go=Go
and you get:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You searched for secret mailing list [Index]

[snip]

No page with that title exists.