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1: おたく or オタク (otaku) pretty much means "geek" or "nerd" in Japanese. There's no "Japanese only" in the definition.
Unless something has changed in the past decade otaku to my understanding contains some pretty negative connotations that are missed by nerd and geek I might be wrong however.
 
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Unless something has changed in the past decade otaku to my understanding contains some pretty negative conotations that are missed by nerd and geek I might be wrong however.
I heard the term "otaku" is losing stigma in Japan, but yeah there has been the connotation of obsessed to an unhealthy or antisocial level. But if Westerners want to redefine "otaku" as "anime fan", that's how new "culture" evolves: "otaku" can still have the original meaning in Japan, and then have a new meaning over in the West.
 
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1: おたく or オタク (otaku) pretty much means "geek" or "nerd" in Japanese. There's no "Japanese only" in the definition.

2: FFS SJW BS seems to be all over Wikipedia, like a roach infestation (like that mention of "cultural appropriation").
Wouldn't that make Kotaku a bunch of racists? I mean they are, but by their own made-up definition.
 
Looking through some articles of questionable financials from nonprofits, I came across the "Wikipedia has cancer" article, by one wikipedia user. This would be old news, it has been known that Wikimedia expenses rise as the income rises.

But this year we might be in for a special treat. Donations are apparently stagnating post covid, while spending is going through the roof faster than ever, ant in the year of our Lord 2023, it could be the first time (in a long time? ever?) where expenses overtake donations.

Plotting the data on the page, it looks like this:

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Looking through some articles of questionable financials from nonprofits, I came across the "Wikipedia has cancer" article, by one wikipedia user. This would be old news, it has been known that Wikimedia expenses rise as the income rises.
He's not just any Wikipedia user. He's the guy who wrote this copypasta in 1997.
You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As we say in Texas. I'll bet you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You are a canker. A sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you.

You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon.

You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselfs in recognition of what they had done.

I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell?

Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.

You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood. May you ckoke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs.

You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you. You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot.

And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?

You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile one-handed slack-jawed drooling meatslapper.

On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go.

You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill.

You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away.

I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupid that it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I'm sorry. I can't go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me. After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don't have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh.

the only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of your of whay you wrote, because, well... it didn't really say anything. Your attempt at constructing a creative flame was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us "normal" people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are "challenged" persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn't have been "right". Sort of like parking in a handicap space. I wish you the best of luck in the emotional, and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.
 
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Anyone wants a good example of Wikipedia outright spreading lies and misinformation. It's the sounds of freedom page. The Wikipedia editor Outright calls UNICEF, INTERPOL and United Nation human trafficking stats, pointing out that more people are enslaved now than any point in history a lie and nearly every edit bitch about, non-existence Q-Anon themes in the movie beyond child human trafficking is bad.
 
The misconception itself is much older, dating back to at least the late 19th century. In the August 1877 issue of Popular Science Monthly, apparently suicidal lemmings are presumed to be swimming the Atlantic Ocean in search of the submerged continent of Lemuria.

Hahahaha what the fuck? It's real! It's a real fucking article in a 1877 science magazine! Man shit was so wild back then. :story:

The theory isn't quite as insane as Wikipedia portrays it, the gist of it is that dude proposes that the lemmings are literally following instincts to migrate to land that no longer exists because the sea rose or the land sank.
 
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"There's music about penguins too... I'm like 90% positive I read that in a book, don't remember what page though. Well, I'll just tack that onto the paragraph about a video game." Thanks wikipedia, you really do learn something new every day.
 
A bit of back and forth reverting on Elon Musk as to whether to call him a "far-right conspiracy theorist" in the opening sentence. For reference, this label is liberally used in the bios of people disliked by Wikipedians.

The sentence with the smear may have been indexed by some engines according to the Musk Twitter thread:

The talk page on this topic continues to grow.

I also notice he has an enormous number of categories:
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Among them is Antisemitism in the United States.
 
Among them is Antisemitism in the United States.

This category itself has an interesting history - it was a compromise replacement for the infamous 'Antisemitic People' category. Unsurprisingly, it was liberally used to defame during the Israel-Palestine edit wars in 06-08 (which I can only imagine what they are like now).
 
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I for one like this. It speeds up the death of Wikipedia's undeserved and outdated reputation as trustworthy for basic overviews.
Good luck at that, it's still cited by all the search engines as the top result and I'm sure ChatGPT refers you to Wikipedia too. Wikipedia helps write reality now, and Elon can't do a thing about beside start his competitor which he can't even call Xpedia.
 
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