Wikinews:Water cooler/miscellaneous/archives/2020/October


16:25, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

Call for feedback about Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changes and Board candidate rubric

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Today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees starts two calls for feedback. One is about changes to the Bylaws mainly to increase the Board size from 10 to 16 members. The other one is about a trustee candidate rubric to introduce new, more effective ways to evaluate new Board candidates. The Board welcomes your comments through 26 October. For more details, check the full announcement.

Thank you! Qgil-WMF (talk) 17:09, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

15:24, 12 October 2020 (UTC)

16:31, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Important: maintenance operation on October 27

-- Trizek (WMF) (talk) 17:10, 21 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

17:38, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Glenn Greenwald resigns from The Intercept

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-interceptJustin (koavf)TCM 18:53, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Fascinating. To really understand what's going on there one would need to know more about the context. Censorship and freedom-of-the-press in a disinformation-rich environment. --Pi zero (talk) 20:05, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, seeing the article he publishes will be interesting. I've never been on the side that he's a tool for Russian disinformation or a useful idiot but I am very skeptical of all these October Surprise Bombshells About China and Ukraine since so far, they are all BS. See also Tucker Carlson "losing" the "only copy" of some "damning" documents about Joe Biden. —Justin (koavf)TCM 20:09, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The publication responds: https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-resigns-the-intercept/Justin (koavf)TCM 20:37, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
And now the article itself: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-biden-censoredJustin (koavf)TCM 22:43, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I have lately concluded that being thoroughly gulled, in the current environment, does not require an idiot. It can happen to people of well-above average intelligence, if they get off on the wrong foot with their information sources. Once you lose your way, it can be incredibly hard to re-acquire your bearings. --Pi zero (talk) 23:18, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Precisely. You don't have to be some gullible idiot or a vicious bigot to fall for a crock. —Justin (koavf)TCM 23:25, 29 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]