Wikipedia:Wikifun/Round 9/Answers/Question 2

Movement of Star Wars cruft to the Star Wars Wiki? the wub (talk) 09:15, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Nope, good try however. -- AllyUnion (talk) 15:16, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Assumably the opening of the StarWars Wikicity, which is already the biggest wikicity out there (and now I know why!). GreenReaper 14:31, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Don't ask me to elaborate the choice of words here since I didn't make this question. But you are incorrect.  Sorry. -- AllyUnion (talk) 15:22, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * Hint: Hard to see, the Dark Side is. Alphax &tau;&epsilon;&chi; 09:55, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

On April 23 123.249.70.7 removed a large portion of Force (Star Wars) due to plagerism. -- Nis81 20:36, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)


 * That's not it either. -- AllyUnion (talk) 22:39, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

plagiarism

Screetchy cello's guess
In April 2005, Michael Snow redirected The_dark_side_of_Wikipedia (history) and Dark_side_of_Wikipedia (history) to Why Wikipedia is not so great. Obviously, this shrunk the content of those two pages down to just a redirect.

I found this by assuming the "dark side" the question referred to was talking about Wikipedia itself, not any Star Wars link. I remembered seeing something once about the downside of Wikipedia and found it by googing " "dark side" site:en.wikipedia.org -"Star Wars" ". It's in the second page of hits.

--Screetchy cello July 9, 2005 09:50 (UTC)  (sorry, forgot to sign my post!)


 * Don't ask me to explain the question, but unfortunately you are incorrect. --AllyUnion (talk) 09:46, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Reediewes' verbose guess
Searching for ("dark side of wikipedia" site:en.wikipedia.org -"star wars" -"pink floyd") on Google turns up three hits. Following these links to the eventual destination of The dark side of Wikipedia and by redirect to Why Wikipedia is not so great. The "dark side" of Wikipedia is the possible inaccuracy, incompleteness, and POV-ness that may result from making the sum of all human knowledge editable by any yokel with a keyboard.

On April Fool's Day, 2005, a great deal of pages were created as pranks and jokes (Example list 1 and Example list 2). These articles were unencyclopedic and sometimes offensive and were deleted shortly after April 1st. The removal of these pages constituted a shrinkage in the dark side of Wikipedia. Reediewes 21:15, July 15, 2005 (UTC)


 * Nope. --AllyUnion (talk)

Hint
This question deals with a bug or error in the software used to run the Wikipedia. --AllyUnion (talk) 08:24, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

Block compression bug
I thought it must refer to the block compression bug (mentioned here, which made it impossible to delete certain pages. These pages were orphaned (hence "hard to see"/"dark side") and put in Category:Pending deletions until the bug was fixed. However according to the history of User:Pending deletion script this was only fixed, and the backlog of pages deleted in May, not April. the wub  "?/!"  11:40, 6 August 2005 (UTC)


 * The bug refers to something in April. --AllyUnion (talk) 03:24, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Hint 2
This bug or error attempted to fix a problem only to cause a newer problem. --AllyUnion (talk) 01:44, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

I'll try...
This wouldn't have anything to do with, would it? Tim turned off tidy and some people's signatures had unclosed HTML tags, so text got smaller and smaller as the page went on. &laquo; alerante &#x2706; &#x2709; &raquo; 19:22, 23 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Close enough. Correct!  The Unicode Byte Order Mark. (It was being inserted by HTMLTidy (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/) when dealing with broken signatures ironically, the reason it was turned on in the first place.) --AllyUnion (talk) 06:56, 25 August 2005 (UTC)