I think the question of working isn't aimed at technical aspects (which keep getting better- I don't know whether MySQL is the problem, but whatever the problem is, the devs seem to have it in hand), but rather at more social issues.
(To get this out of the way, I was the last admin to delete the myg0t article, although ~15 others deleted it before me)
myg0t was not kept "over and over"; it was VFD'ed once (deleted), AFD'ed once (deleted) which was sent to DRV (restored), and then a second AFD was going to end in a delete when I decided to simply close it early and deleted it- the DRV for that one ended in a keep-deleted. A single DRV hardly supports your contention, and I'm not even counting the 10>x>20 times it was speedily deleted.
In short, you may have a point about Brian Peppers, but you are simply and plainly wrong about myg0t.
"And further on in the interview, I read "there is increasingly a distinction between 'normal' authors and 'high-end' authors who are explicitly trying to get their articles 'featured'." "
"I don't know... that statement right there speaks volumes as to how unbiased a system Wikipedia can really be."
Nah. It's simply people enjoying doing different things, that's all. Some people simply enjoy doing the obssessive research and referencing and formatting and copyediting necessary to get a Featured Article, and some prefer to get an article 'good enough' and just move on. A FA is a huge investment of time, since the standards are really high. I suppose a loose analogy can be drawn with writing software- some like making their programs all documented and portable and stable, and others just want to get something done, and if it works for you as well, great.
Perhaps this is infeasible (I don't know how your company works) and a naive suggestion, but if the spelling errors are so obvious, it shouldn't be that hard to grab a copy of the CVS code, open it up in a text editor/grep it for the spelling errors, and fix it (providing a diff for the programmer or simply reuploading the changes). Doesn't sound like it'd be much more effort than hassling him with your spreadsheet, anyway.
"Crank contributions come in from both the left and the right. Its quite interesting to see an MIT full professor being told he does not understand the technology he pioneered."
I'm going to guess that you're talking about Carl Hewitt here. He got banned because he was an awful editor. His articles were poorly written, he had no idea what a reference was (he referenced *Godel's papers on his Incompleteness Theorems* in an article on Hewitt's Scientific Community model), and couldn't stop promoting himself and his papers, even after he was banned by Arbcom from editting exactly those articles.
I like how you take the skepticism of a few experts, posit that all experts believed that, and promptly conclude that all experts cannot be trusted on anything.
"Ordinary watchmakers repair our watches and put them into accordance with Earthly time. It is my theory that the Maya should be considered watchmakers of the cosmos whose mission it is to adjust the Earthly frequency and bring it into accordance with the vibrations of our Sun. Once the Earth begins to vibrate in harmony with the Sun, information will be able to travel in both directions without limitation. And then we will be able to understand why all ancient peoples worshipped the Sun and dedicated their rituals to this. The Sun is the source of all life on this planet and the source of all information and knowledge....And with a frequency in harmony, the Earth will, via the Sun, be connected with the center of our Galaxy. These facts become exceptionally important when we realize that we are rapidly approaching December 2012, a date which the Maya have marked as the time of arrival of the Galactic Energy Cluster which will enlighten us."
"An example will help to make this clear. In the example, we'll save space by pretending that the vectors have four secret numbers rather than forty, but the idea will be the same."
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I think the question of working isn't aimed at technical aspects (which keep getting better- I don't know whether MySQL is the problem, but whatever the problem is, the devs seem to have it in hand), but rather at more social issues.
(To get this out of the way, I was the last admin to delete the myg0t article, although ~15 others deleted it before me)
myg0t was not kept "over and over"; it was VFD'ed once (deleted), AFD'ed once (deleted) which was sent to DRV (restored), and then a second AFD was going to end in a delete when I decided to simply close it early and deleted it- the DRV for that one ended in a keep-deleted. A single DRV hardly supports your contention, and I'm not even counting the 10>x>20 times it was speedily deleted.
In short, you may have a point about Brian Peppers, but you are simply and plainly wrong about myg0t.
"And further on in the interview, I read "there is increasingly a distinction between 'normal' authors and 'high-end' authors who are explicitly trying to get their articles 'featured'." "
"I don't know... that statement right there speaks volumes as to how unbiased a system Wikipedia can really be."
Nah. It's simply people enjoying doing different things, that's all. Some people simply enjoy doing the obssessive research and referencing and formatting and copyediting necessary to get a Featured Article, and some prefer to get an article 'good enough' and just move on. A FA is a huge investment of time, since the standards are really high. I suppose a loose analogy can be drawn with writing software- some like making their programs all documented and portable and stable, and others just want to get something done, and if it works for you as well, great.
Bad analogy. Nethack actually got released. (In '87, I think, and Hack came out ~'85, so that's a max of 2 years).
Perhaps this is infeasible (I don't know how your company works) and a naive suggestion, but if the spelling errors are so obvious, it shouldn't be that hard to grab a copy of the CVS code, open it up in a text editor/grep it for the spelling errors, and fix it (providing a diff for the programmer or simply reuploading the changes). Doesn't sound like it'd be much more effort than hassling him with your spreadsheet, anyway.
"Crank contributions come in from both the left and the right. Its quite interesting to see an MIT full professor being told he does not understand the technology he pioneered."
I'm going to guess that you're talking about Carl Hewitt here. He got banned because he was an awful editor. His articles were poorly written, he had no idea what a reference was (he referenced *Godel's papers on his Incompleteness Theorems* in an article on Hewitt's Scientific Community model), and couldn't stop promoting himself and his papers, even after he was banned by Arbcom from editting exactly those articles.
What's wrong with the mozilla-mplayer package/plugin? Works fine on Debian for me.
I like how you take the skepticism of a few experts, posit that all experts believed that, and promptly conclude that all experts cannot be trusted on anything.
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...And with a frequency in harmony, the Earth will, via the Sun, be connected with the center of our Galaxy. These facts become exceptionally important when we realize that we are rapidly approaching December 2012, a date which the Maya have marked as the time of arrival of the Galactic Energy Cluster which will enlighten us."
I would also like to conclude with a quote from the archaeologist concerned, from http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/osmana
"Ordinary watchmakers repair our watches and put them into accordance with Earthly time. It is my theory that the Maya should be considered watchmakers of the cosmos whose mission it is to adjust the Earthly frequency and bring it into accordance with the vibrations of our Sun. Once the Earth begins to vibrate in harmony with the Sun, information will be able to travel in both directions without limitation. And then we will be able to understand why all ancient peoples worshipped the Sun and dedicated their rituals to this. The Sun is the source of all life on this planet and the source of all information and knowledge.
"An example will help to make this clear. In the example, we'll save space by pretending that the vectors have four secret numbers rather than forty, but the idea will be the same."
'Nuff said.