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 ^τεχ 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 Wikipedia:The_dark_side_of_Wikipedia (history) and Wikipedia:Dark_side_of_Wikipedia (history) to Wikipedia: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)[reply]

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 Wikipedia:The dark side of Wikipedia and by redirect to Wikipedia: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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

I'll try...

This wouldn't have anything to do with [1], 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. « alerante ✆ ✉ » 19:22, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]