{"id":471,"date":"2009-08-26T14:40:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T21:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deathgleaner.wordpress.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2017-07-26T18:29:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T01:29:59","slug":"why-i-really-hate-wikipedia-administrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/why-i-really-hate-wikipedia-administrators\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I really hate Wikipedia administrators"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This post is part of a three-part series on the\u00a0grievous\u00a0deficiencies\u00a0of Wikipedia administrators.<\/em><\/p>\n

Wikipedia administrators have turned Wikipedia into an online totalitarian regime, and no one is doing a darn thing about it.<\/p>\n


\n(Note: This does not apply to all administrators on Wikipedia.)<\/p>\n

On a Wiki such as Wikipedia<\/a>, there are 3 tiers of users: Regular users, Bureaucrats<\/a>, and Administrators<\/a>. Out of those 3 tiers, it’s the administrators that are the worst. If you are a regular user on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons<\/a> or any Wikimedia Project (Wikimedia Commons<\/a>, Wikisoure<\/a>, Wikibooks,<\/a> etc), you’ll know what I’m talking about.<\/p>\n

Administrators are supposed to be “helpers” and people who “clean up and perform maintenance” on the wiki. Apparently, the administrators who are on the Wikimedia Project’s wikis have abused this power so much that they can’t even be classified by the two phrases above. Instead, their function now is to bash users for making accidental edits and to find excuses to block users. On Wikipedia, I got blocked for “spamming” the Wikipedia Sandbox<\/a> with a survey. Well, the sandbox is an area where people test wikicode<\/a> and no one really cares what goes on it<\/em>. Now, apparently, administrators spare no pages in their around-the-clock hunt for “vandalizers<\/a>“. Some administrators have been so sucked in and addicted to this task that they literally stalk the people that make even the slightest trouble. One example of such a user is Either Way<\/a>.\u00a0 I made an edit on the Simple English Wikipedia<\/a> and he said something about that on my user talk page. Then, I uploaded an image on Wikimedia Commons<\/a>, which the user followed up with a comment. I make another edit on the English Wikipedia and still, Either Way is following me. I swear that these admins have developed secret admin-only tools to stalk and hunt down users.<\/p>\n

Because of administrators, Wikipedia has turned into an online totalitarian regime, with administrators at the throne. Whether you know it or not, every time you log on to a wiki, there’s always one administrator who has his or her eye on you. It takes just one mistake, one wrong edit, and that administrator will be on your case before you even press the “save changes” button. How do they do this? Administrators use heinous “automatic users” called bots to accomplish the task of stalking down users (although the admins are barely human, they can’t possibly watch over millions of Wikipedia users). These bots are the administrators’ assistants, and thousands of them are crawling all over Wikipedia, and at the slightest bit of a mishap, they’ll leave a horrific message on your talk page and notify all the admins. Then all hell breaks loose.<\/p>\n

Another notable conflict I’ve had with administrators was on Wikimedia Commons. I nominated one of my pictures, a panorama of Mount Rainier<\/a>, for Featured Picture.<\/a> I believed that it was such a good image that I used a few other user accounts under the same name to vote for it. Unfortunately, this kind of activity sticks out like a sour apple to Commons administrators, and I was promptly blocked. I would have been fine if the block was less than 3 days, but of course, those administrators have mental problems. They blocked all of my other accounts, blocked my main account (Deathgleaner), blocked indefinitely, and without any prior warning. Usually, users are given at least one warning if the offense hasn’t been committed before, and I have never committed any offense like this and I get blocked indefinitely by one administrator. Then, another administrator follows me just to rub it in my face, followed by another, then another, like an online pileup of football players. The administrators also put a notice on the voting page of my panorama saying what happened. This screwed people’s perception while voting and caused them to focus on the incident rather than the image. Yes, some of the comments did regard the image itself but I still believe there would be less opposing votes if the administrators hadn’t screwed up the voting page with numerous comments.<\/p>\n

After my primary account, Deathgleaner, got blocked, I created another account so I could keep contributing, in a good manner<\/em>, to the wiki. Yet, the administrators are so one-sided that they only see the bad stuff, and that was that the user account I was using to keep contributing was connected to my main account. The administrator wasted no time in blocking that account. It took me another three months to finally convince those biased admins to unblock my main account.<\/p>\n

One of the most recent and ongoing conflicts happened on Wikisource<\/a>. I was looking at the text for a book called Uncle Tom’s Cabin<\/a> by Harriet Beecher Stowe. When I found out the first chapter was formatted as prose, I promptly disagreed and changed it so that it was not formatted as prose. Of course, a nosy admin walks by my user talk page and leaves a note that basically said “prove it”. I gave him three very trusty sources and he still didn’t believe it, which got another administrator on the case. The debate escalated from there and resulted in me being blocked, for the millionth time. One of the admins said that I needed “special guidance” on editing and that my changes are “erratic”. The only person who needs special guidance and is erratic is that doofus who wrote the comment on my talk page! Now there’s a huge pileup of administrators’ dumb comments on my talk page<\/a>, including one comment that said “I am going to block you for 14 hours so you don’t prevent us from carrying on with our lives”. Well, I doubt these admins have any “life” other than gluing their eyes to a computer monitor and trying to hold records for the most number of users blocked.<\/p>\n

All this administrator activity on Wikipedia and other sites has pissed me off. I have almost stopped editing on Wikipedia because I can’t do so peacefully. The administrators only exist for the purpose of framing users and causing more trouble rather than settling it. They have framed so many users that their reputation has changed from people who help other users to people who block users. In fact, these administrators have turned Wikipedia into a Neo-Nazi regime, and they treat the rest of the Wikipedians like Jews in World War II. The only way to stop such horrendous injustice towards non-admins is to dethrone the administrator position. Talking to admins is useless, they’ll only call in other administrators to help take down the talk. Sure, Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, but it’s only free if we don’t have any nagging administrators patrolling Wikipedia every second of every day.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you’re a user on Wikipedia who’s had a similar story. Please share it with me so I can back up my claim (or maybe it’s just me). If you hate Wikipedia’s administrators, feel free to leave a comment saying “I HATE WIKIPEDIA ADMINISTRATORS”. Feel even more free to list off the usernames of such admins and I will happily post them on my blog.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Great news. I have found out that Wikipedia and other similar wikis don’t allow freedom of speech, even for people in the United States. First of all, that’s an infringement on the Constitution, and second of all, I guess that’s the reason why I get block threats from Either way and other such dirtbags. I swear that it was administrators who took away this right in order to promote a more uptight community. And now I’m blocked on Wikisource for saying that I hate administrators. Those administrators have no sense.<\/p>\n

And here’s another thing to think about\u2026 it seems that blocking should be used as a last resort<\/strong>, not a first option. Apparently admins only respect that when they want to. Another example of how Wikipedia’s “government” has gone to the dogs.<\/p>\n

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