Hail my incubatic incubator.

[reddragdiva]

Wikipedia meet yesterday. Lotsa pics on arkady's camera. We got a lot achieved towards taking over the world, and a UK Wikimedia charity looks certain. Good to meet lithiana at last. And jdforrester has been Borged, muwahaha.

I heard Richard Stallman's rider detailed. Oh boy. He specifies everything down to relative humidity.

(As someone I won't name put it: "Open source is better than free software because libertarians wash.")

Comments

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I wish I could remember where I read "Libertarianism is like goth for adults".

What's up with the what_the_hack entry?

[reddragdiva]

Or like goth for 'Merkins.

"what_the_hack"

The whutawhut?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

http://wiki.whatthehack.org/index.php/WhatTheMorons

Now, I could save much time and trouble by just following the link on the page, but something called 'special_undelete' fills me with caution; I want to see what the problem is before sticking my oar in, and I'm not au fait enough with wikimalarkey to perform that action via the front door. As it were.


It were a Septic weblog, so yes. G*th for them lot.

[reddragdiva]

Oh, that. The deletion page on the English Wikipedia is a den of poisonous fuckwits and must be nuked from orbit. This is being worked on.

[reddragdiva]

I've restored it. It appears to have been speedy-deleted because it looks like complete vanity rubbish about a completely trivial event - Wikipedia is not a blog. Since it isn't, I strongly suggest you write it up better, really quickly.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

You know, I walked right into that, didn't I?

[reddragdiva]

You sure did! I'll start you off. Here's some wikitext to paste in and fix up:

'''What The Hack''' was a [[hacker (computing)|]] conference held in (wherever it was) running (whenever it was). Events included (list).

==Media coverage==

* (list everything off the press page, using asterisks as bullet points)

==External links==

* (link to the wiki)

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Hm. Try that. (I actually can't explain it well w/o going into arm-waving evangelism and ending with an idiot grin. You Had To Be There.)

[reddragdiva]

Very good!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It's got me thinking about the differences between hacker-camps (HEU/HIP/HAL/WTH/CCC et al), conferences (Defcon/Blackhat), blogger-camps (foo-, bar-, emerging tech(?)) and, um, other things. (There was an event that a couple of the CCC chaps were off to after WTH. It looked dead interesting.

Hm. I forsee a proper post about this.

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

Richard Stallman's rider?

[reddragdiva]

Get an aspergic, put them in great demand for public speaking and see just how fussy they can get.

[kineticfactory.livejournal.com]

What sorts of things were on his rider? A bowl of M&Ms with the red ones taken out or some equivalent thereof?

[ruthi.livejournal.com]

It's a quick easy way to see that They are paying attention to details.

[reddragdiva]

Pepsi. Never Coke.

[wednesday]

Waaaait a minute; isn't Eric Raymond also meant to be greasy and pungent?

[zenmonkeykstop.livejournal.com]

Only if he likes you.

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

You missed the very drunken attempt at the pub quiz. The three still standing came a clear bottom. Hurrah!

[lithiana.livejournal.com]

oh, did you actually discuss the foundation? i think i must've been on the other side of the room at that point ;)

where are the pics?

[reddragdiva]

You were sitting right next to me! It was between James and I drunkenly bellowing at each other about Stallman's rider and whatever it was I was talking about.

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

I think we agreed a meeting on it - I can't remember who was invited (apart from me, you and VampWillow) but I think you said you'd organise it ;)

Are Arkady's photos up yet?

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Not yet. I will probably get around to it soon though. I shall likely just whack them up somewhere for the rest of you to caption. ;-)

[reddragdiva]

And arkady should put the pics up on Commons some time or other :-)

[arkady.livejournal.com]

When I get around to it.

(Possibly when I stop bouncing for five minutes or so.)