Editing Talk:Anarcopedia

There is no "speculation" here, a human cannot rename twenty pages to random strings and then blank them all in one minute, and that's exactly what was happening in the last week at [[Recyclopedia]], over and over again.  That was a [[vandalbot]] attack, and no one watching it could say any different.


:I recall you previously claiming that the attacks lasted for several months and my personal experience as a user of [[Recyclopedia]] contrasts this claim that you made and now you have revised your story. How can I trust you on the above claim. --[[User:Juxo|Juxo]] 14:33, 26 Jan 2005 (EET)
::''a human cannot rename twenty pages to random strings and then blank them all in one minute''&mdash;tell that to [[w:User:Willy on Wheels|the Willy on Wheels]]. :-) He claims to use nothing more complex than tabbed browsing [http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=135333&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&tid=215&mode=thread&cid=11292880]. [[User:216.127.68.137|216.127.68.137]] 09:08, 4 Feb 2005 (EET)
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Moved from article by [[User:Juxo|Juxo]]

The Anarcopedia's policy effort builds on prior efforts at [[Recyclopedia]] - an attempt to build a [[large public wiki]] without use of [[sysop]] powers at all.   This failed however when many pages were renamed, censored, attacked, vandalized and moved by overt supporters of [[Wikimedia]] - ''this is not disputed'' - who had preferential access to [[vandalbot]] technology developed by [[Tim Starling]], - ''this is not disputed'' - a notable advocate of [[technological escalation]] - likely to prevent the [[New Troll point of view]] from spreading.  The Recyclopedia failed, and evidence of the above was largely removed from view.

:I'll get back to disputing all of this when I get my email working and dig up Bobo's email address from somewhere.

::Forget what "Bobo" says.  Just look at the actual logs.

:::Logs? Give us a link.

:::Yes, that would be very interesting...

:Ooh, a conspiracy theory! (All completely unproven and probably unprovable, of course, like any good conspiracy theory. . .) Duder, a computer-literate adolescent could have done what you describe. He wouldn't need to be a Wikimedia supporter, he wouldn't need Tim Starling's help, and he wouldn't necessarily have to have any motivation apart from a cheap thrill&mdash;all he would need is competence in a scripting language (Javascript would probably suffice) and a working knowledge of MediaWiki. [[User:216.127.68.137|216.127.68.137]] 09:08, 4 Feb 2005 (EET)