do you feel we should make a serious attempt at our sciwiki?
and do you think it should be moderated?

multiple choice poll.

wikis thrive on having as many edits and editors as possible. Moderators kill wikis.

Moderators are needed to 'kill' vandals and those who input inappropriate material about the forum members and inappropriate content in general.

I like this serious-casual mixture of Wiki, but as long as it's reasonable and temperate.

So, we need slight moderation there and I think that we already have moderators on Wiki.
Those are all SciForums members.

They just have to become more active.

do you feel we should make a serious attempt at our sciwiki?
and do you think it should be moderated?

When the SciWiki was just a concept I came up with one day, I figured it could be sort of like Wikipedia, but for SciForums. In other words, the content would be sorta serious. But I also figured there was still room to make it warm and welcoming and a bit informal, since it's a personal wiki. So I was flexible in this regard.

But I do think it should definitely be moderated. Mods don't kill a wiki. Wikipedia is a good example of a wiki that is moderated yet thrives. Besides, if it's not moderated, how will we stop people from fucking things up?

i don't think anyone is really interested in what you think sciwiki should be. The community is currently deciding what the encyclopedia should be like. Obviously in the light of your acts of vandalism of the athelwulf page you don't like the way it is going.

If you want serious articles then make them. It's is rather a pointless exercise to state we need more serious articles. Nobody is going to write serious articles because someone else says so. People do what they think is worth while.

And that's currently not fitting your vision. Live with it. Or contribute.

The community is currently deciding what the encyclopedia should be like.
i hope this poll reflects the users desires.

The poll is no good. The poll should be public because people who do not contribute have little to say in the matter. Since there will be no encyclopedia without contributors.

Can we have some examples of "serious attempts"?

cult of wes
regeneration
tooth development
stem cell
scivillage thread
horrible
Category:Logical Fallacies
Pirate vs ninja
happeh

The poll should be public because people who do not contribute have little to say in the matter.
i never thought of that.
even if the voter doesn't contribute he still has a voice.

Can we have some examples of "serious attempts"?
the reason i started this poll/ thread is because i read that invert likes receiving porn links by PM so i sent him one. well lets just say he didn't like it very well.

i've also heard that some people are complaining abouts its (sciwikis) contents.

I suspect that next time you should send a link on bestiality instead of lederhosen gangbangs.



i've also heard that some people are complaining abouts its contents.

Excellent. maybe they will actually do something then instead of waiting for handouts.

I suspect that next time you should send a link on bestiality instead of lederhosen gangbangs.

no thanks, after the ass chewin' i got i'll pass.

Leo: your contributions thus far have been rubbish.

Thankyou.

Leo: your contributions thus far have been rubbish.

Thankyou.
thank you very much slutface.

well after counting the pages that you and i have contributed here are the results:
redarmy11 has contributed 10 pages.
leopold99 has contributed 100 pages.

Thats funny, invert loved my porn links.

Mine too. He likes them old.

Thats funny, invert loved my porn links.
hmmmm . . .

hmmmm . . .
Hmmmmm (http://www.sciforums.com/showpost.php?p=1311779&postcount=63)....

work safe?

Sciforum thread.

haha...

i actually never open porn links send to me by PM. But that's because I have a PhD.

Hmmmmm (http://www.sciforums.com/showpost.php?p=1311779&postcount=63)....
invert can chew some serious ass ay?

Obviously in the light of your acts of vandalism of the athelwulf page you don't like the way it is going.

Shut up.

I like our wiki with all the madness in my soul.
I think it reflects the collective brain of Sciforums.

Mine too. He likes them old.

wrinkled skin, wrinkled sheets.

That reminds me:
What's the most awful thing one can say during sex?
Happy birthday, grandmother!

That reminds me:
What's the most awful thing one can say during sex?
Happy birthday, grandmother!

thats almost as bad as "please dont pee on my belly again, grandpa!!!"

Pirate vs ninja


:(

i missed round 2....

do you feel we should make a serious attempt at our sciwiki?
and do you think it should be moderated?

no, it's fine the way it is

Whatever it is reflects whatever this place is.

Isn't this something like a parody of reality ?

OK, so you got a parody of an encyclopedia.

What's the beef ?

I guess I should read some more of it someday & maybe I'll find out.
LoL

:D

No, you should write more of it - you have a possibly God-given way with words.

Wikis evolve to be what their contributors want them to be. That is all.

I like the 'random page' button on wiki. I wonder if we could have a 'random thread' button on sciforums.

Oh, wait, one more thing.

I have noticed that a lot of the contributions are badly-spelt, badly-punctuated, poorly-structured and generally look like they were written by 4-year-olds. Personally I enjoy reading crap but only well-written crap. However, those who plan on taking the wiki in a more sober direction should be sure to pack a dictionary and thesaurus for the trip. No-one is going to give your ground-breaking scientific ideas due consideration if it looks like you typed them up blindfolded.

i hate you guys.

the reason i started this poll/ thread is because i read that invert likes receiving porn links by PM so i sent him one. well lets just say he didn't like it very well.

Come on.
How obvious is it that that was a joke?
It isn't difficult to tell the serious from the nonserious.
It's obviously a reference to Valich sending me a picture of an inverted uterus after I called him out on another one of his tirades of tired pseudo garbage.

Anyway.
I didn't like it too well. No. But, I didn't get you banned, did I? Why? Because I knew it was a joke. I simply asked you not to do it again, that's all.

hmmmm . . .

They're joking.



As to the wiki. I think it's fine the way it is. Personally, I don't get the people like Q, Athelwulf, and Vslayer who get sand in their panties over humorous comments made in their profile. That's sort of the sciforums way. Always has been. I wish Dr. Lou were around to do some editing. He'd be great at this. It was always his forte.

As to my page, Vslayer took it on himself to fix the vandalism, but I reverted because I found it funny. And part of it is dead on. Much like all of Hugh Jass's contributions. Some over the top (and obviously so) and some dead on.

What's the problem?
Get a sense of humor, guys.

This wiki will be a mix of serious and humorous. Just like the threads in the forum. Why the hell would you expect them to be any different?

As to moderation, I personally haven't seen anything yet worthy of moderation. Some light-hearted character jabs, but nothing even worthy of the title 'flaming' or as bad as some of the shit that goes on in the forums at large.

The wiki is fine.

badly-spelt, badly-punctuated, poorly-structured and generally look like they were written by 4-year-olds.
Yep, thats sounds like a good summary of your contributions.....

Aye.

Anyway, all the wiki needs is a routing system that sends spectacle-wearers to the scientifified version of a topic and the rest of us to the funny one. Any stupid old tosser can see that.

A link on the Main Page to an index of all the misc. mum-jum- I mean articles on the thing might be useful - unless it's there and I'm too dumb to find it...

Oh yeah...
This thing

whew !

That was almost like work.

Yikes...

Look at all that mess already.
LoL

Special:Allpages

Oh yeah...
This thing


I found it.

Oh, wait... I screwed up the link somehow.
LoL

Clearly I'm not qualified to operate this high-tech wonder-gizmo.

I found it.

Oh, wait... I screwed up the link somehow.
LoL

Clearly I'm not qualified to operate this high-tech wonder-gizmo.
Shades of Baron Max!

Will athelwulf please stop vandalizing the athelwulf page. You have a userpage for revisionist history of athelwulf. Stop deleting referenced material.

I already had to revert the page 4 times.

hilarious

me like the member pages on sciwiki :)

Kunax

ai caramba

kunax updated.

well i only draw muslims if there name is Muhammed oh and my 2nd hobby is bad spelling i'm level 73 in bad spelling atm.

thank you for that information. We like to take our encyclopedia serious and be accurate.

wait i would also draw Muslims if they are female and semi/nude

Well, the encyclopedia is a work in progress and new information is constantly added. If it is serious enough.

Denmark is a flat country in Europe.

hehe we do have a few bumps here and there like HimmelBjerge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himmelbjerget) for instance, with its massive 147m.

Denmark entry updated and also the netherlands.

You forgot something.
;)

I just have to say that the history page of the wiki is hella nice. Especially on the main page.

This wiki rocks.

Well, it could rock if it weren't for all the whiners.

Whining on Wiki or whining here ?

Here.
The best whining was done in a secret and dark place however.
The Eleusinian Mysteries have nothing on the dark and secret lair of which I speak...
I shall most likely be ritually murdered soon for even speaking this much...

urrk!

Come on.
How obvious is it that that was a joke?
It isn't difficult to tell the serious from the nonserious.
me drinking my pee, which, by the way isn't true, i just rinse then spit it out, is a joke.
you like to receive porn links by PM is questionable.
Anyway.
I didn't like it too well. No. But, I didn't get you banned, did I?
you enjoy watchin' me sweat dontcha?

you like to receive porn links by PM is questionable.


Well, now you know. And knowing is half the battle.

you enjoy watchin' me sweat dontcha?

It makes you younger. Admit it.

(Crap. I was supposed to be dead.... This is the ritually murdered ghost of invert_nexus speaking... wooooo)

It makes you younger. Admit it.
yeah but i've already lost 30 pounds.

Probably because of all that porn...

Put the pickle away for awhile.


Anyway.
I didn't mean to make you sweat. I thought I explained in the pm I sent back that I knew it was because of the wiki thing and that it was just a joke, but asked that you not to do it again was all.
Should've realized by your response that you didn't understand I wasn't really angry.

It was just weird, that's all.
I'm not used to getting porn sent to me and luckily I put two and two together.

*rubs hands together gleefully*

*rubs hands together gleefully*
shutup

my favorite piece of bestiality porn, courtesy of invert nexus. it's my wallpaper.
http://xs413.xs.to/xs413/07111/caughtintheacttk9.jpg

shutup

you shut up!

you shut up!
no, don't wanna.
what do you think of inverts bestiality porn?

*rubs hands together gleefully*

Shouldn't you be adding some "sicki-wicki" stuff to the thingamabob instead of behaving like some ADHD-riddled nipperkin ?

no, don't wanna.
what do you think of inverts bestiality porn?

i just finished with it.
....ahem.

Shouldn't you be adding some "sicki-wicki" stuff to the thingamabob instead of behaving like some ADHD-riddled nipperkin ?

i dont know what a nipperkin is....
so im gonna go with that one. doesnt sound too bad.

what do you think of inverts bestiality porn?

I love the shame in the dog's eyes. She knows what she is doing is wrong, but she can't help herself.

I love the shame in the dog's eyes. She knows what she is doing is wrong, but she can't help herself.

i think its sexaaaaay!

I love the shame in the dog's eyes. She knows what she is doing is wrong, but she can't help herself.

A clear-cut case of anthropomorphizing, old featherhead...

Oh joy!

the unofficial encyclopedia team has been created. We are the team that is responsible for most of the content on the encyclopedia (a few exceptions proving the rule). Feel free to join us!

And then I have to make a more negative statement

It is really pissing me off that the self-appointed nazis are trying to get their way with the encyclopedia. To be honest I am quite surprised how our efforts to build something are being dragged through the mud.

I will put a stop to the production of all science entries (by myself) till this issue is resolved.

Why wasn't this poll public? I demand answers.

You can find all answers on our encyclopedia: poll

mattmarr? MATTMARR?

It's a democracy...well...anarchy where anyone can edit himself into any position.

Except for the nazis. I predict that they will be edited out by the collective (not to be confused with communism.

unofficial encyclopedia team
this needs to be put on the main page and the word "unofficial" changed to "official".
although i have serious reservations about mattmarr.
that way there will be no doubt as what to expect from the contents.

Why wasn't this poll public? I demand answers.
this is a anonymous poll.
i believe every poll i've ever made has been anonymous.

this needs to be put on the main page and the word "unofficial" changed to "official".
although i have serious reservations about mattmarr.

We are not the official encyclopedia team. Unfortunately.

Mattmarr was probably a joke by someone on the unofficial encyclopedia team.

We are not the official encyclopedia team. Unfortunately.
how about "the unofficial official"?

Mattmarr was probably a joke by someone on the unofficial encyclopedia team.
i refuse to work with mattmarr unless my salary is doubled and i get an extra 3 weeks off.

i refuse to work with mattmarr unless my salary is doubled and i get an extra 3 weeks off.

You got it! I will throw in a secretary as well.

although i have serious reservations about mattmarr.
I did too at first, but some of the changes he made to your articles on there were really awesome.

I think he must have worked as an editor in chief somewhere before.

You got it! I will throw in a secretary as well.
triple d and unmarried?
I did too at first, but some of the changes he made to your articles on there were really awesome.
huh? what?
excuse me for one sec. . .

Wikification

triple d and unmarried?



yes. does it matter if it is a guy?

great. right about the time i thought i was going to get lucky you slip in a guy with a mangina and manboobs.

i've added the unofficial editors, contributers, etc, to the main page.

oops, for some reason it didn't stay.
i think i screwed it up.

i've added the unofficial editors, contributers, etc, to the main page.

oops, for some reason it didn't stay.
i think i screwed it up.

no, this nazi edited it a small bit. I took the members list out and added the link. Maybe it was a bit too much for the unofficial encyclopedia team to make the frontpage their homepage.

*IF* you want to format entries in the sciforums wiki properly, you might want to look at the "Harvard System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_reference)" of Citing and Referencing which I believe is the intending Industrial Standard for citation. Keeping to the same methodology I gather is suppose to make articles clear and presentable to scholars worldwide, however I'm guessing this would only be important on any serious academically noteworthy articles.

What would be good would be to see any such articles not so much "Vandalised (http://www.sciforums.com/encyclopedia/Main_Page)" but reformed into the equivalent of an easily digestible text similar to Comic books. (Now you just need some artists to make it a touch above other Wiki's)

"Harvard System of Citing and Referencing"? So far we can't even get people to use capital letters at the beginning of their sentences.....

Ergo, the Comic Book derivative.

It's much more difficult to make a comic than to write a science paper. ;)

Even draqon is doing his bit. Wiki. (http://www.sciforums.com/encyclopedia/Russian_army)

im going to join the Russian army

i've added 25 or so more items.
at this rate we will surpass wikipedia, hell, we may even buy 'em out.

*IF* you want to format entries in the sciforums wiki properly, you might want to look at the "Harvard System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_reference)" of Citing and Referencing which I believe is the intending Industrial Standard for citation. Keeping to the same methodology I gather is suppose to make articles clear and presentable to scholars worldwide, however I'm guessing this would only be important on any serious academically noteworthy articles.

What would be good would be to see any such articles not so much "Vandalised (http://www.sciforums.com/encyclopedia/Main_Page)" but reformed into the equivalent of an easily digestible text similar to Comic books. (Now you just need some artists to make it a touch above other Wiki's)

One more thing about the comic idea. Currently it is not feasible because you cannot upload pics. Pictures will therefore be dependent of a myriad of different hosts and servers. I can already predict that everything on my server space will be gone next year because I am quitting hosting spuriousmonkey.com.

because I am quitting hosting spuriousmonkey.com.

but what about the bunny and the lectures

10 to 1 spurious starts hosting the wiki.

They're quite long odds. You don't sound very confident.

spurious can't host the wiki. As someone who's against the private ownership of communal property, it would ruin him.

As someone who's against the private ownership of communal property, it would ruin him.
haha, i never thought of that.
pretty clever red.

shit man. I'm not going to host anything. It's all a waste of money.

Absolutely. 98% of the internet is trash anyway.

But anyway, I wouldn't mind my own private, local wiki - ie, hard-disk based, accessible only to me. It seems a very useful way of storing info. Perhaps Plazma can read this in about 2 months time and tell me whether this is feasible - by which time I'll have gone off the idea.

I might host something if they would offer dirt cheap packages.

Who needs 10gb of bandwidth for plain html files with text on them.

But anyway, I wouldn't mind my own private, local wiki - ie, hard-disk based, accessible only to me. It seems a very useful way of storing info. Perhaps Plazma can read this in about 2 months time and tell me whether this is feasible - by which time I'll have gone off the idea.

i think it is. But you need the database thingie...msql and such.

Yes, it's probably all horribly complicated. Maybe I'll give it a go sometime.

Like the new subtitle by the way - lovely. Are you quoting a monkey sage there or something?

It has a translation between the brackets...duh.

Oh yes. Hadn't noticed that. I'm blushing.



Hello? Is that Finland National Asylum? Yes, yes - I've found him..

We have sighted a vandal and are currently dealing with the problem as only the unofficial encyclopedia team can.

We need someone with actual power, rather than us numbnuts.

Ron is a funny guy.

`
SCREW the " Unofficial Scrote ~ Lapping Bastards of Ultimate Redundancy " !!!

Is this the " lofty " collective waste of oxygen that couldn't even spell peaceful correctly on the main page ?

BAH !!!

Best they all jump in a tub of hot water and remember to cut those wrists LENGTH - WISE in the name of alacrity and dispatch !

Repeat after me :

I DAMN THEE !!!

. . . remember to cut those wrists LENGTH - WISE in the name of alacrity and dispatch !

remember kiddies, it's down the road, not across the street.

Yup-per !!!!
http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/1458/slash20wristlg4.jpg

my article is a candidate for quick deletion, eh pete?

delete that shit, and watch what gets put up in its place. :)

i don't think anyone is really interested in what you think sciwiki should be. The community is currently deciding what the encyclopedia should be like. Obviously in the light of your acts of vandalism of the athelwulf page you don't like the way it is going.
Calling athelwulf's revisions acts of vandalism is absurd considering the article is about athelwulf. Especially considering the article history in which athelwulf is clearly revising content produced in his article by vandals.

What's absurd is that you haven't been banned.

Moderators are needed to 'kill' vandals and those who input inappropriate material about the forum members and inappropriate content in general.

I like this serious-casual mixture of Wiki, but as long as it's reasonable and temperate.

So, we need slight moderation there and I think that we already have moderators on Wiki.
Those are all SciForums members.

They just have to become more active.

Yep, sounds good. I think for the real hot topics we need to remain as serious as possible, however, if the information is to be taken as being as true as possible. Otherwise there won't be a lot of respect for the articles that aren't just people making wikis about themselves.

Calling athelwulf's revisions acts of vandalism is absurd considering the article is about athelwulf. Especially considering the article history in which athelwulf is clearly revising content produced in his article by vandals.
im glad to see that he has let the double reversion stand.