Posts Tagged Wikipedia
Procrastination is my worst enemy
Posted by The Right Guy in Uncategorized on August 10th, 2010
It is, in fact, my worst enemy… Yes and because of it I did not make a post in two weeks! I have to admit I am not proud of myself…
Procrastination is in my way when I have to clean the dishes, clean my appartement, when I have to clean my clothes, take out the trash, at work…. well I think you get my point…
Most people say: Why don’t you just do it? Well.. That is so easy to say! What is hard is to take the habit of putting deadlines for all your tasks and technology these days make is so easy to procrastinate as there SO many nice things to do on a computer. Hey, the entire internet is at you fingertips! It is so much funnier to go to Youtube than GMail… You also have access to many games on Steam.. and it sit and wait in your sys-tray! Oh I will only play a little game just to realize I just wasted 2 hours to simply do this little “game”. Why don’t I read this good article on my favorite band on Wikipedia? I will surely do the dishes after. Then i will go on LastFM to discover similar bands but I still haven’t done what’s important in my day yet!
Procrastination leads to so many problems in life and this is only the tip of the iceberg on how devastating this can be and I am living proof as many others on this Planet.
Please mister Procrastinate get lost! I want to actually live my life!
Wikipedia bans Scientology
Posted by The Right Guy in Internet, Wikipedia on May 30th, 2009
Yesterday, in an unprecedented decision, Wikipedia’s
court-like body ArbCom handed down a project-wide ban of all IP addresses owned by Scientology for disruptive editing and coordinating their edits to maintain their status quo including “persistent point-of-view pushing and extensive feuding over sources on multiple articles”
This is the first time that an entire organization’s IP address
block has been banned from editing Wikipedia, despite individual IPs being blocked in the past from other organizations, such as the US DoJ in 2008.
Arbitrators voted 10 to 0 (with one abstention) in favour of the ban, however individual editors may request IP block exemption if they wish to contribute from the blocked IP addresses. The case also resulted in the restriction of a further 15 editors from Scientology-related articles or, in some cases, the entire encyclopaedia.
The decision, which comes as a French court starts a trial that could dissolve the French chapter of the organisation, was the result of the longest running arbitration case in Wikipedia’s history.