#relevant-wikipedia-articles

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Round 3: The Quarterquartersemifinals

(Poll 25 of 32)

@theshitpostcalligrapher

“an OG tumblr cryptid ”

@relevant-wikipedia-articles

“I really like the juxtaposition of simple/innocent tumblr posts with the inherent intellectual aura of a Wikipedia article. I also think they can be a good source of comedy. Like one post where someone said "she's so cute, how do i talk to her?" [image of car] and I reblogged with a link to the Wikipedia article on communication. I also really like discovering there's a term for something. Like when people say stuff like "banana for scale"? The banana is a fiducial. Those solid plastic chairs that seem indestructible? That's a monobloc. Big boobs? Breast hypertrophy. When dogs are tired and lay on their stomach with their head on the floor? Splooting. I also trick people into learning (or make them realise that learning is much more enjoyable when it's not done for school)”

“An often delightful look at (often humorously) relevant articles to things posted.”

[relevant-wikipedia-articles]

I don't think I'm alone in my head !! (^o^)

Hooray for never being alone!

[writing-is-hard-af]

ADHD is starting to write one thing, getting distracted by an idea for another thing, looking something up for that idea of another thing, falling into a research rabbit hole for that one thing, finding a book on that thing, then getting distracted again from someone asking something from across the house

[jan-aki]

I was thinking about making a joke post celebrating one of my gimmick blogs reaching a follower count of whatever perfect power they just happen to be coming up on

Anyways, the only two I checked happened to be approaching 17^2 and 17^3 lol

[windor-truffle]

research for 2hcb1 is like 30 percent revisiting canon lore and 70 percent watching therapy videos because *gestures vaguely at Lambda and Asbel* you've got a lot to unpack there, huh 😅

[gaybd1]

a weird thought came up when I was thinking about the world and I’d love y’all’s feedback

Is it weird for an immigrant to identify as their new country’s nationality after a certain amount of time?

Because the answer seems kind of obvious but the more you think about it the weirder it gets

Let’s throw citizenship status aside for a minute bc that stuff can get unnecessarily complicated. Let’s talk from like a cultural/sense of belonging perspective

Growing up in the US, I had several immigrant friends who I (as a kid) started automatically considering to be American within a couple years, despite citizenship status, and most of them started viewing themselves in that context within I’d say five years

Judging from what I’ve observed in various countries between adult and child immigrants, I feel like we as a society arbitrarily “grant” someone that second nationality after they’ve spent about half their life living there. Seems kind of fair

But what about people who assimilate into a culture much faster? What about people who can no longer claim nationality of the country they come from? What about people who will always feel more at home in their new country than their old? What about people who will always feel an equal sense of belonging between the two?

And what about white people? lol because for some reason that can change things in our mind. I’m about to get permanent residency in Taiwan, pretty much the closest thing I could ever get to citizenship, and I would never dream of calling/considering myself Taiwanese bc that seems weird and yucky. I have a friend who’s lived here the vast majority of his life, but because he wasn’t born here and is white is not considered by most to be Taiwanese.

Sticking with this example, TONS of people are Taiwanese-American but why is it weird to be South African-Taiwanese with no Taiwanese blood?

I suspect this is because of power constructs/white privilege/whatever and like. Fair. But it’s weird, right?

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Round 2: The Quarterquarterquarterfinals

(Poll 50 of 64)

@relevant-wikipedia-articles

“I really like the juxtaposition of simple/innocent tumblr posts with the inherent intellectual aura of a Wikipedia article. I also think they can be a good source of comedy. Like one post where someone said "she's so cute, how do i talk to her?" [image of car] and I reblogged with a link to the Wikipedia article on communication. I also really like discovering there's a term for something. Like when people say stuff like "banana for scale"? The banana is a fiducial. Those solid plastic chairs that seem indestructible? That's a monobloc. Big boobs? Breast hypertrophy. When dogs are tired and lay on their stomach with their head on the floor? Splooting. I also trick people into learning (or make them realise that learning is much more enjoyable when it's not done for school)”

“An often delightful look at (often humorously) relevant articles to things posted.”

@gimmickblog-taxonomist

(no propaganda submitted)

[mrfunnyinthebank]

me: hey wikipedia is this wrestler actually from the hometown he's billed under?

wikipedia personal life section: he was arrested 20 years ago and and has 3 ex-wives. in 1992 he got stabbed by a disgruntled employee. his kids don't talk to him. his shoes are dirty. is that what you wanted to know?

[typhos-c-dragon]

my folks are watching some true crime thing in their room, and since their room is like right next to mine, i can kinda hear it through the walls. and i wasn't really paying any attention, just trying to tune it out and go to sleep. and all of a sudden the people in the true crime thing are like?? talking about diary of a wimpy kid: rodrick rules the movie??? and like my folks didn't change the channel, this is definitely the true crime documentary people talking about someone being cast in rodrick rules the movie. but it's just muffled enough through the walls that i can't. make out why this is relevant to whatever horrible crime they're discussing.

[relevant-wikipedia-articles]

mood

[moniquill]

Here is a brief summary of what is happening in Wikipedia right now:

In the last few years (3-4 years) the WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America, which was originally created to improve the quality and coverage of native issues and native articles on wikipedia, has been hijacked by a small number of users with an extremist agenda. They have been working diligently over the last few years to change the definition of both what it means to be an Indigenous American and even what it means to be state and federally recognized.

The four or five key players (Mainly Editor Yuchitown, Bohemian Baltimore, ARoseWolf, (now retired editor CorbieVreccan, Netherzone and Oncamera) who are part of the “Native American Articles Improvement Project” started implementing these changes slowly, but they started pursuing their goals aggressively after November 2023, when state-recognized tribes retained their voting rights in NCAI. Essentially, after the movement to delegitimize state-recognized tribes failed officially, the key players doubled down on altering and controlling the flow of information about Native Americans through Wikipedia.

The talk page of Lily Gladstone’s article has a relevant discussion here. Initially, the leaders of the WikiProject removed any reference to her being a “Native American Actress” and instead had her as “Self-identifying as Blackfoot” and “Self-identifying as Nez Perce” because her blood quantum was too low to be enrolled in either tribe.

You can see some of the discussion here:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Lily_Gladstone

Eventually they relented and changed her category to being “Of Nez Perce Descent” but you can see in the discussion that they are referring to an article that these editors (Yuchitown, Bohemian Baltimore, and CorbieVreccan) themselves appeared to have mostly written and revised:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_identity_in_the_United_States

This statement is very much at odds with even the government’s description, as seen below;

The DOJ Office of Tribal Justice Office on their webpage “Frequently Asked Questions About Native American”, question “Who is an American Indian or Alaskan Native” states:

“As a general principle, an Indian is a person who is of some degree Indian blood and is recognized as an Indian by a Tribe and/or the United States. No single federal or tribal criterion establishes a person's identity as an Indian. Government agencies use differing criteria to determine eligibility for programs and services. Tribes also have varying eligibility criteria for membership.”

In addition, “List” pages have been created on Wikipedia for federally and state recognized tribes. The Wikipedia “List” page for state-recognized tribes is inaccurate in its interpretation of state recognition and not supported by expert reliable sources--(1) Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law 2012 edition, (2) NCSL.org current stand on state recognition (not the archived list from 2017 which NCSL no longer supports), (3) Koenig & Stein’s paper “Federalism and the State Recognition of Native American Tribes: a survey of state-recognized tribes and state recognition processes across the United States” (both 2008 & updated 2013 in book “ Recognition, sovereignty struggles, and indigenous rights in the United States: A sourcebook”)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-recognized_tribes_in_the_United_States

State-recognized tribes who have received recognition through less formal but acceptable means have been moved from the Wikipedia list page on state-recognized tribes to the Wikipedia list page of unrecognized or self-identifying organizations.

The Wiki page "List of organizations that self-identify as Native American tribes", in particular, is being used to purposely defame legitimate Native American individuals who are members of the tribes/Native communities that are on this list. 

By the parameters set up on Wikipedia, only the colonizer’s governments can acknowledge who is Native American through either federal recognition or state recognition. If an individual is not a member of a federally or state-recognized tribe, then it is determined that they cannot be Native American and are, instead, considered “self-identifying” or only “a descendant of ...” (example Lily Gladstone). As a result, Native individuals are currently being tagged as “self-identifying” and their names are put on “list” pages that strongly imply they are “pretend” Indians.

These editors have indicated that they would like “self-identification” to be the default setting for any people who they deem do not fit within the parameters that they themselves created within Wikipedia.

Moreof, these editors are admin and senior editors within the Wikiproject Indigenous Peoples of North America, and are being called in specifically to weigh on Native Identity, and any project involving any Indigenous Group.

Any attempt to correct misinformation, add information, or change any of these articles is often met with being blocked, reported for various offenses, or reported for having a Conflict of Interest, whether or not that is actually applicable. They have use this strategically in many different pages for many different individuals and groups within the scope of their Wikiprojects.

While changing things in Wikipedia does not change the truth, it is a way to control how most people take in information, and thus they hope to manipulate the narrative to better suit their goals.

This is quick and messy but:

Here is a link to the google document with the other state recognized tribes (Including yours) that were edited by these editors. This is an incomplete list so far that only goes back to September 2023 but I am going to add to it. If you can add to your own part of this list, and send your complaints and information to the arbitrator committee (the email is below) with the involved editors, this will help our case.

The  more tribes who complain, and the more Wikipedia editors complain, the better our case will be. 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YNDEjLTrrZ_mMIRCVxtvt69FwCYpJWKs71lBhWa5a9M/edit?usp=sharing

The place to make complaints on Wikipedia is oversight-en-wpwikipedia.org , and

arbcom-enwikimedia.org . It is most helpful to have an editing account on Wikipedia, because Yuchitown and the others will try to defend themselves using Wikipedia methodology and make anyone who confronts them look like the aggressor (see the other tribes who tried to fight back on Wikipedia I found).

The more people and tribes make complaints the more likely it is that this will work and we can rid ourselves of these monsters.

Some of the tribes I have spoken to are taking legal action against these editors. Any groups affected by their policies should also reach out to the news to make knowledge of this more widespread.

Thank you

- quoted with permission from an email sent by an associate of my tribe. Message me for their email address if you'd like to reach out to them.

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Round 1: The Quarterquarterquartersemifinals

@relevant-wikipedia-articles

“I really like the juxtaposition of simple/innocent tumblr posts with the inherent intellectual aura of a Wikipedia article. I also think they can be a good source of comedy. Like one post where someone said "she's so cute, how do i talk to her?" [image of car] and I reblogged with a link to the Wikipedia article on communication. I also really like discovering there's a term for something. Like when people say stuff like "banana for scale"? The banana is a fiducial. Those solid plastic chairs that seem indestructible? That's a monobloc. Big boobs? Breast hypertrophy. When dogs are tired and lay on their stomach with their head on the floor? Splooting. I also trick people into learning (or make them realise that learning is much more enjoyable when it's not done for school)”

“An often delightful look at (often humorously) relevant articles to things posted.”

@shark-detector

“Sharks are awesome and amazing, i love to be able to know if sharks are in a post.”

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[ipso-faculty]

There's now an Intersex Wiki! 🎉

So I got tired of the Sisyphean task of trying to make existing wikis like Wikipedia more informative about intersex. I also was feeling that there isn't really one central place for intersex content to get archived, especially if Tumblr goes down. It felt like it was time that we the intersex community had our own wiki.

And, it's live! You can find it at intersex.wiki!

It's still very young and under development, but we just passed the 100 article mark 🥳 and I thought I'd share! Here's our glossary page as a starting point:

It would be really lovely to get some more regular contributors to the wiki! If you have anything you'd like documented about your intersex variation, knowledge about intersex history, local intersex organizations, or intersex representation, it'd be appreciated! 💜

I've been mostly focusing on growing the number of articles, and which means that the main article on Intersex could really use some expansion and refinement. 💜

Proofreading is also appreciated. 💜

Please note that:

You will need to make an account and confirm your email before making any edits, because there is an intense amount of spam/vandalism directed at the wiki (sigh)

You must thoroughly cite all your sources. You can cite Wikipedia. You can cite Tumblr posts. You can even cite your own Tumblr posts. But you must cite your sources. This is an encyclopedia and others need to be able to verify the provenance of your arguments. We use Chicago-style citation.

Wiki content must have educational relevance to the intersex community, and also must be safe for work. (SFW is interpreted as including information about biology/anatomy provided it's in a style/tone suitable for a classroom.)

Note: we have a ban on biographies of living individuals.

The threshold for inclusion of neologisms and flags in the Wiki is: "is this actually used outside of coining posts, glossaries, and wiki entries?" If you want to make an article on a neologism, there needs to be at least one citation demonstrating literally anybody using this term in a naturalistic manner.

Given the wiki is subject to a lot of spam/vandalism, the first few edits you make to the wiki will be sent to a moderation queue and will need to be manually approved. Once you've demonstrated you're not a spammer, that you can cite sources, and not create articles that are outside the scope of the wiki, you'll be added to the list of users whose edits are automoderated.

If you have any difficulty in editing the wiki or getting started, or just wanna talk about the wiki, we have a Discord: https://discord.gg/BBvGUBWqnR

If you have any questions let me know! 💜

[fishing-lesbian-catgirl]

> make a post about how the mentally ill girls in my group chat rely on each other since we can’t listen to our own advice

> someone brings up the incredibly relevant allegory of the long spoons

> someone posts the Wikipedia article’s picture of 4 guys reenacting the allegory

> my post about me and my mentally ill tgirl friend group starts getting tagged things like “boys will be boys”

[prokopetz]

I love it when the Wikipedia article for a manga series will include a lengthy discussion of its complete publication history, including periodical names, dates, volume numbers, relevant reprints and reissues, and even ISBNs for specific collected editions, but at no point does it get around to describing what the series is actually about.