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- I am a WP:VOLUNTEER!
- Favorite Wikipedian: Nick Dupree (user page)
- How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an angle (this, but not just POV)
- My opinion on the importance of portals to our readers
- "I guess my thing about RGW is like: If the wrong being righted is that Wikipedia is out of line with scholarly consensus, that's a great motivation for an editor to have. If the wrong is that scholarly consensus should change, that's a very bad motivation." - User:Tamzin
- [I]f you have to choose a "pedia" to trust, you might choose the one assembled by a bunch of pedantic nerds saying "well, ACTUALLY" to each other until the heat death of the universe, over the one assembled by an LLM controlled by an insecure Nazi salute-throwing billionaire who sprints to reprogram that LLM every time it shares a fact that makes that billionaire angry or sad, or doesn't fit into his Playskool Machiavellian ambitions and plans. In this particular case, a thousand pedantic nerds is much better than a single rich one. (John Scalzi's "Whatever" blog, "A Review of Grokipedia, Using Myself as Test Subject")
- The more LLM-related RFCs I see, the clearer it becomes to me that a major faction in the en.wiki community loathes and detests LLM-generated writing and thinks it's rude and wasteful to ask human editors to spend their limited volunteer time reading and checking it. And I'm coming to think that, of the editors who respond to AI-related RfCs, those who're in this faction increasingly outnumber those who aren't. A lot of this is about reversibility. Wikipedia only works because it's easy to undo things. For example, it's easier to remove vandalism than to generate it. LLMs change this equation, making it easy for people who don't share our thoughts and values to generate prodigious quantities of superficially plausible text with very little effort. Making rules against LLM use is a bit like King Canute ordering the tide not to come in. If this is how we want LLM use to go on en.wiki, then I expect we will come to need bots that revert edits with AI stigmata as promptly and aggressively as Cluebot reverts vandalism. User:S Marshall closing AI GA discussion
- Wikipedia may be an encyclopedia, but our policies and guidelines, and their inscrutability to new people, makes us far too parochial for my taste.
| Niner | This user thinks DS9 is the best Star Trek series. Ever. |
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- Richmond/Virginia:
- GRTC Pulse, Buckingham Branch Railroad, Joe Morrissey (and other Virginia politicians' districts, electoral results, etc.), Walkerton Tavern, Greater Richmond Region (coordination with other areas), orbit program, clark hall uva, uva wise cavaliers, barack obama elementary school polling results, JK (UVA) and HE (W), richmond fire/ems, uva bsl 3, eric lannon, pamunkey regional library, bagel the beagle, Grounds of the University of Virginia reorganize, add development to airport info, virginia media, MAKE THIS ZERO
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- Richmond/Virginia:
- Laurel Industrial School Historic District, UVA-Wise major edits, Port of Richmond (Virginia) major edits, adding info about Commonwealth Fusion System's new nuclear fusion reactor, coverage of the richmond region water system (continuing), created and added disappearance information for Francine (cat), created Ron Melancon ("Who is Ron? he's neither the hero we need or wanted" -Reddit user RabidSeaTurtle, on this post), add info on mr. jingles to Ashland, Virginia, Richmond Community hospital add info, Grounds of the University of Virginia (continuing), add info to redistricting in virginia and 2025 virginia redistricting (continuing), richmond high schools (continuing)
- LGBTQ+:
- Other:
- Telecommunications in Nauru and related articles, Instagram research section, Coordinating Template:Style and Template:Manual of Style (continuing), Actaea rubifolia article creation, African Dance section of History of dance, Nick Dupree minor reorganization and CE (not significant, just wanted to improve the page of my favorite Wikipedian), multiple edits to theories of depression and related articles, Scope of practice major improvements,major edits to Hoodie, Lists of music venues and related articles major coordination effort, editing multiple pages related to Sammarinese curazie & merging curazie and castelli, commenting on merge discussions, categorizing ARC counties, san marino navbox
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