Wikia / FANDOM - The ugly result of giving aspies control of their own wiki websites

Darwin Watterson said:
There's nothing too "out there" besides categories. Most articles tend to consist of "so-and-so takes a bath in episode X and does such-and-such," followed by fapservice galleries. By the standards set by other "fetish" wikis, it's pretty tame.

Those categories, though...is that like porn for autistic people or something?
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I don't know what's hot about someone cleaning themselves.
So, it's totally autist porn.
 
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We can only hope that, someday, the average Tumblr user can finally join that category.
 
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Rihanna Ikari said:
What happens when you reject an admin request on the SpongeBob Fanon Wiki:

http://spongefan.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:TheInfection5/Not_promoted.

http://spongefan.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:144308



This still only earned a month-long block.
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Is it just me, or is there something about Wikis in general where folks are reluctant to give anyone a perm ban for stuff that would instantly get them canned on nearly any other social media or internet message board?

I've noticed the same theme on RationalWiki, even smurf accounts created for the sole purpose of trolling almost always just get week long bans there; and to a lesser extent Wikipedia used to be like that, though lately I see them being a lot less tolerant, and just instabanning obvious trolls and vandals instead of giving them 3-4 "warnings" before hitting the banhammer.
 
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Is it just me, or is there something about Wikis in general where folks are reluctant to give anyone a perm ban for stuff that would instantly get them canned on nearly any other social media or internet message board?

I've noticed the same theme on RationalWiki, even smurf accounts created for the sole purpose of trolling almost always just get week long bans there; and to a lesser extent Wikipedia used to be like that, though lately I see them being a lot less tolerant, and just instabanning obvious trolls and vandals instead of giving them 3-4 "warnings" before hitting the banhammer.
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I'll be blunt, wikis tend to attract three types of people: genuine fans of something who want to compile lore/knowledge of it in one place and realize crowdsourcing their efforts is a good idea, academics, or people with issues who find it an outlet to pour their issues into.

I say this because I'm a little of all three.

I run a TV Tropes alternative for people who want to crowdsource media and writing tropes knowledge but don't want to do it the way TVT does. I'm a bit of a scholar (though I have no formal degrees as one, though it's well known others that do love wikis for organizing what they know) and scholarly types find wikis ideal for collating data, and I'm an autistic and I admit I find editing wikis a healthy way to pass some of my time.

The problem is that these communities have created a trap for themselves in the process.

People who want to crowdsource data occasionally have to put up with volatile types, especially if those are considered their best contributors. Sounds crazy, but now you know why Ryulong is tolerated on wikis despite being a known drama magnet, he's just that willing to help the meta-goal of the wiki and some are willing to endure his more drama laden moments to make use of that.

Academics have their eccentrics like any other community, sometimes they too can be borderline pants on head insane, but from antiquity on, these guys have also proven really, really smart, and some places are willing to put up with them if they consider what they have to offer intellectually that valuable.

And people with issues like autism are drawn to these places for reasons I won't belabor, they should be manifest, but I will add, as boring as it might seem to normal people, many people who have some form of mental or emotional disturbance find peace and relaxation in getting their thoughts out, and wikis allow them to do so in a way they can share that with the world in an easily editable and accessible form, because, consciously or unconsciously, autistics crave social interaction, but since they fare poorly in many standard areas of human activity (depending on the severity of the autism they have), wikis allow them to type words behind an alias (though some will use their real names due to lack of filter or discretion) on whatever they want to show the world without having to show their face and at a remove from direct contact that allows them to avoid a total breakdown that IRL interaction would offer some of them, and some can overcome their issues and be useful, mature editors who understand there are some social norms they must adapt to, though this is sadly not as much the rule as it would be ideal in some wiki communities.

Keep in mind this is my take on things, I do not speak for everyone, and all the groups I mentioned have many reasonably well adjusted types who are wiki members, but as I've come to discover, all three groups have an innate sympathy for their less well adjusted members, and so are willing to tolerate an amazing amount of messed up interaction so long as the possibility of worthwhile edits comes out of it.

Of course, the problem with this is when the less well adjusted types of any of these three or all in combination become the majority on a wiki project, then that's how you get a wiki that is destined for nothing but drama instead of constructive effort.
 
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When we were trolling the gender wikia i stumbled across an upload of a screen from the tv show reboot and was like 'wut.' following the trail the person who uploaded it, Queen Armada aka Feroz Y Khan took me on a ride.
We all saw it coming, Feroz is an autistic transgender from Canada. He finds his home on various pop culture normal wikia pages and leaves bread crumbs of crazy in them. Their occupation on every wikia they've touched is 'outpaitent' which means sweet sweet gubberment money.

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And that artifact filled profile picture? A self portrait. Queen Armada here has hundreds of them.
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and a flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/60669492@N04/
(there's a twitter too but its protected)
not even regular photos are safe from the wrath of Queen Armada
From the Ontario Blue Jays or something Wikia
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At one point I had a scanned copy of a Canadian ID, but it was run through that awful filter so no good details but for real this is what they looked like.

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and a picture of his father (that reverse search linked to more wikia profiles)

Queen Armada lives up to his name and invades normal wikias by using them as personal blogs.
From the star wars rebels wikia
Star Wars was my pastlife power as a citizen on Space American planet.I lived there in my pastlife under the Galactic Empire.My name and my past.Jedi's can do powers and leap and jump down buildings.I still need Jedi training in my galaxy has Star Wars as Transformers and Gobots.The whole cast of Star Wars in my galaxy and other galaxies as Gobot and Pretenders.I need lessons of the force once they have changed from giant size.Star Wars can be my future in Transformers Gobot Pretender Universe.I need lessons on how to be a Jedi.Can get them from Star Wars Transformers Gobot Universe and learn the drills in being Jedi when I'm a grown up I'll be ready for training.I need my Jedi lifeforce raised too.The one I have is great and jumping down buildings.Jumping.Future in my afterlife there was a city I went to in Transformer Gobot Universe for Star Wars and Jedi.
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From the Medal of Honor Wikia
Medal of Honor is one of my favourite games.I like Medal of Honor and have alot of memories to PS1 to now with conquering Medal of Honor games.This is the proper soldier for me to select my daughter same gender as me,transexual females.
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From jurassic park wikia
I am Queen Armada and love about dinosaurs for it is not boring and I know they live in outer space and do not live in Galactica,no reptiles except in this universe and more.
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And he brings his terrible art with him too.
From the Cheers wikia

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And I'm not editing their text. Queen Armada does not understand that spaces happen after punctuation. That's generally how one can tell if a section of their updates are copy/pasted or not is the spaces.

Queen Armada has landed on the wrong side of some wikia editors apparently and their talk page on their own wikia (soon, its a lot to unwrap) includes linking porn:
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And one (now missing post) about uploading tons and tons of fan fiction into a Macross Wikia's content. And oh boy does Queen Armada have fan fiction.

In a form of the most industrial grade autism I have ever seen, Queen Armada has their own Wikia dedicated to their fan fiction OC whatever that as far as I can tell is a mashup between Transformers/Gundam/Macross/probably some other mecha.
Zarconian Wiki
http://zarconian.wikia.com/wiki/Zarconian_Wiki
For some reason there's spam links on the home page??? But Queenie is the only one to edit the wikia so maybe they're there for a reason.
Also the home page is the only one with anything on the talk page and it's about psychiatrists:
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There's 29 articles on the wikia and you're thinking "@An Ghost, you're the hottie with the incorporeal body, whats so autistic about that?"
Each article is about ~16,000 words long peppered with images and videos that have nothing to do with anything.
http://zarconian.wikia.com/wiki/Zarco_Space_Army
no joke, i hit the edit button on this article on an old laptop and the sheer autism crashed it. It's all OC.
As of writing this, he's active on his wikia. Like as I was screen capping things edits were coming in. And has edited it just about every single day for about a year as far as i can tell. So long live Queen Armada: too weird to live to unique to die.
"government Transgenders"
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"Bigfoot"
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From the Jaws 3D Wikia FOR SOME REASON. WHAT EVEN
"Castle,watch sharks,hatch"
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An Ghost said:
When we were trolling the gender wikia i stumbled across an upload of a screen from the tv show reboot and was like 'wut.' following the trail the person who uploaded it, Queen Armada aka Feroz Y Khan took me on a ride.
We all saw it coming, Feroz is an autistic transgender from Canada. He finds his home on various pop culture normal wikia pages and leaves bread crumbs of crazy in them. Their occupation on every wikia they've touched is 'outpaitent' which means sweet sweet gubberment money.

9IZX1ni.png


And that artifact filled profile picture? A self portrait. Queen Armada here has hundreds of them.
UfdYiPO.jpg


SjHiHjD.jpg


4Ghxn1X.jpg


BYgiPu5.jpg


and a flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/60669492@N04/
(there's a twitter too but its protected)
not even regular photos are safe from the wrath of Queen Armada
From the Ontario Blue Jays or something Wikia
mA13Khw.jpg


ktaKxmJ.jpg


At one point I had a scanned copy of a Canadian ID, but it was run through that awful filter so no good details but for real this is what they looked like.

PzoPuKR.jpg


and a picture of his father (that reverse search linked to more wikia profiles)

Queen Armada lives up to his name and invades normal wikias by using them as personal blogs.
From the star wars rebels wikia

From the Medal of Honor Wikia

From jurassic park wikia

And he brings his terrible art with him too.
From the Cheers wikia

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And I'm not editing their text. Queen Armada does not understand that spaces happen after punctuation. That's generally how one can tell if a section of their updates are copy/pasted or not is the spaces.

Queen Armada has landed on the wrong side of some wikia editors apparently and their talk page on their own wikia (soon, its a lot to unwrap) includes linking porn:
Ou5WcLj.png

And one (now missing post) about uploading tons and tons of fan fiction into a Macross Wikia's content. And oh boy does Queen Armada have fan fiction.

In a form of the most industrial grade autism I have ever seen, Queen Armada has their own Wikia dedicated to their fan fiction OC whatever that as far as I can tell is a mashup between Transformers/Gundam/Macross/probably some other mecha.
Zarconian Wiki
http://zarconian.wikia.com/wiki/Zarconian_Wiki
For some reason there's spam links on the home page??? But Queenie is the only one to edit the wikia so maybe they're there for a reason.
Also the home page is the only one with anything on the talk page and it's about psychiatrists:
UJtvb6T.png

There's 29 articles on the wikia and you're thinking "@An Ghost, you're the hottie with the incorporeal body, whats so autistic about that?"
Each article is about ~16,000 words long peppered with images and videos that have nothing to do with anything.
http://zarconian.wikia.com/wiki/Zarco_Space_Army
no joke, i hit the edit button on this article on an old laptop and the sheer autism crashed it. It's all OC.
As of writing this, he's active on his wikia. Like as I was screen capping things edits were coming in. And has edited it just about every single day for about a year as far as i can tell. So long live Queen Armada: too weird to live to unique to die.
"government Transgenders"
8I55UtC.jpg

"Bigfoot"
5SCWPm5.jpg


From the Jaws 3D Wikia FOR SOME REASON. WHAT EVEN
"Castle,watch sharks,hatch"
ZXTpi3I.jpg
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Seems like there's enough here for a thread if there isn't one already.
 
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Darwin Watterson said:
Seems like there's enough here for a thread if there isn't one already.
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Bits and pieces are missing that would make it worth it like their ID and pics of their dad. And the only reaction I've ever seen is other wikia editors revert vandalization of their content. while sonichu is bad its 'Baby Shoes' compared to Queen Armadas sperging.
 
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"Geek Feminism" has a Wikia of their own.

An article on the "OpalGate incident":

On June 18 2015, a self-identified OpalRB core contributor made transphobic comments on Twitter. In response, Coraline Ada Ehmke opened issue 941 calling for removal of the core contributor from the project, while enquiring about the project maintainers' stance on the issue and its possible effect on future contributors.
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I remember the event somewhat differently. First, both the article and the original "issue" for some reason linked to a response by this guy:
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Rather than the "evidence" itself, at the top of the linked reply chain:
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The response from other project maintainers was decidedly negative and included personal attacks against Coraline.
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Coraline had contributed zero to Opal when he opened this "issue" and technically less than zero when accounting the waste of productive contributors' time with this drama.

While the outcome resulted on Opal adopting Coraline's own "Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct", it still does not seem to have generated any interest in the project for her.
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Despite the adoption of her Code of Conduct, the biggest contributor to Opal remains the transphobic Elia.

On the topic of abuse:
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This breaks Coraline's own CoC, specifically:
Our Responsibilities

Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable behavior and are expected to take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any instances of unacceptable behavior.

Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Scope

This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces when an individual is representing the project or its community. Examples of representing a project or community include using an official project e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event. Representation of a project may be further defined and clarified by project maintainers.
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To put it another way,
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Or in the words of Breitbart:
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Others:

Here's a newly edited article on the menace of Tea Bagging, the simulation of sexual assault performed on an avatar which has "died" in-game.

There is also a topic on "FreeBSD's man page misogyny" which mentions Randi Lee Harper:

Second, Randi Harper replied -- even after the bug had already been fixed -- accusing Lena of "wanting special treatment" as a woman for complaining about sexism.
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They also reference the "Julian Assange arrest" as an "incident" of "sexual assault in geek communities".

Assange was charged with sexual assault under Swedish law, for multiple acts, one of which was having sex without a condom with a woman who did not consent to unprotected sex. However, most subsequent comment (especially from those supporting him) focused only on the one act (the sex without a condom one), ignoring the other sexual assaults in order to minimise the overall seriousness of the crime.
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