At the time the article was originally published, I read that it says "It's a pseudonym the 30-year-old Silicon Valley IT professional uses as he documents the inner machinations of the project, along with a dozen other Wikipedia administrators, on a site called WikiTruth (www.wikitruth.info)." So I went over to the wikitruth site and called up the Special:Listusers page. Surprise surprise, there were only 8 registered accounts on the wiki, only one or two of which were active. I would be genuinely surprised to find more than one "Wikipedia administrator" on the entire site, rather than a group of disgruntled trolls and banned Wikipedia users (the makeup of every other anti-Wikipedia site to date).
Please don't forward this one, it's a waste of a good question. The answer is "no" as any quick research on wikipedia.org will show you.
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Sorry, the first "increased" in my comment should read "decreased".
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The Postini site that the article cites as showing that spam volume has increased 20% over a few years actually says, on its stats page, "Spam activity has increased over 65% since January, 2002". Additionally, the article author used a single moment to make his predictions, rather than checking out any statistical trend.
It'd be more like getting arrested for producing a phone book that along with legitimate pharmacologists lists drug dealers, the type of drugs they sell, and the relative quality of their drugs along with a button that you can press to have the drugs mailed to your house.
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At the time the article was originally published, I read that it says "It's a pseudonym the 30-year-old Silicon Valley IT professional uses as he documents the inner machinations of the project, along with a dozen other Wikipedia administrators, on a site called WikiTruth (www.wikitruth.info)." So I went over to the wikitruth site and called up the Special:Listusers page. Surprise surprise, there were only 8 registered accounts on the wiki, only one or two of which were active. I would be genuinely surprised to find more than one "Wikipedia administrator" on the entire site, rather than a group of disgruntled trolls and banned Wikipedia users (the makeup of every other anti-Wikipedia site to date).
Please don't forward this one, it's a waste of a good question. The answer is "no" as any quick research on wikipedia.org will show you.
Sorry, the first "increased" in my comment should read "decreased".
The Postini site that the article cites as showing that spam volume has increased 20% over a few years actually says, on its stats page, "Spam activity has increased over 65% since January, 2002". Additionally, the article author used a single moment to make his predictions, rather than checking out any statistical trend.
Some idiot didn't take a close look at this comment before hitting "Interesting".
It'd be more like getting arrested for producing a phone book that along with legitimate pharmacologists lists drug dealers, the type of drugs they sell, and the relative quality of their drugs along with a button that you can press to have the drugs mailed to your house.
It might have something to do with the spam blacklist.
No, I put that there as a post-it note.