New Home for the QBWiki
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New Home for the QBWiki
I'm come to the conclusion that I no longer wish to be the host of the QBWiki. If someone else is willing to host this, please let me know and I can give you a database dump of the current wiki.
Some things to note:
-There are several articles on the wiki that don't have nice things to say about people. At least a few of these articles contain pretty strong and unverified claims. If the new admins keep these articles, they'll be legally responsible for them.
-Even articles about generally liked people in the quizbowl community often contain things that a lot of people don't want showing up on a first-page Google search. Whether the new admins want to keep these or not is up to them, but I'd suggest going through the wiki and removing all non-quizbowl content.
-The wiki currently prohibits people from creating new accounts without getting admin approval. If this policy is continued, someone has to go through the relatively annoying task of manually creating new accounts every few days.
Some things to note:
-There are several articles on the wiki that don't have nice things to say about people. At least a few of these articles contain pretty strong and unverified claims. If the new admins keep these articles, they'll be legally responsible for them.
-Even articles about generally liked people in the quizbowl community often contain things that a lot of people don't want showing up on a first-page Google search. Whether the new admins want to keep these or not is up to them, but I'd suggest going through the wiki and removing all non-quizbowl content.
-The wiki currently prohibits people from creating new accounts without getting admin approval. If this policy is continued, someone has to go through the relatively annoying task of manually creating new accounts every few days.
Mike Bentley
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
I've been waiting for the host transition to come so that I can go through and scrub out all of the irrelevant stuff that Mike alludes to from the site. Potential new hosts can rest assured that the new Wiki (should I be retained as an admin, anyway) will be solely focused on factual, historically important information gathered from public sources or from cited interviews with named people. The excised content may be given over to some other party to host a "QB humor wiki" for which that person would be solely liable.
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
Where would things like "Buzzer rock" fall? I mean, it's not factual and not entirely historically important, but it's certainly not libelous of anyone in particular and a somewhat useful bit of the lexicon.
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I guess someone should append a lexicon of some sort to the QB wiki for stuff like that.
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
I'm willing to host this.
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You could "document" it by linking to attested usage on the forum. But since the intent here is to avoid libel suites, if it doesn't mention anyone it doesn't seem like anyone could credibly threaten to sue for libel, no?Aldo Montoya wrote:Where would things like "Buzzer rock" fall? I mean, it's not factual and not entirely historically important, but it's certainly not libelous of anyone in particular and a somewhat useful bit of the lexicon.
(Nothing in this post should be taken as legal advice or general legal information)
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
Alright Jonah, send me an e-mail ([email protected]) and we'll work out details.jonah wrote:I'm willing to host this.
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
Mike, Jonah, and I have worked out the skeleton for how the new content rules and the transfer are going to work. I would like to ask for general community input on the specifics in this thread.
We have already locked down the current Wiki so that we can accomplish the first goal, which is having a team of admins remove all "potentially libelous, personal, and in-joke content" from the pages before the migration. We need lots of help on this, so if you're interested, post here or send me an e-mail.
The cleaned-up pages will be put on the new Wiki without any way to access their histories. The original author will be listed as "QBWiki" and all former page histories and talk pages will be deleted. Thus, you can associate yourself with the new QBWiki without the risk of being tainted by any questionable content.
The new Wiki will be devoted to historical and linguistic content only, and will eliminate the following things:
1) Gossip about people in quizbowl
2) Neologisms that no one actually uses
3) Claims such as "this tournament plagiarized questions" or "a bunch of teams think this school's events suck" that aren't cited to either one of the public communications fora or an on-record interview with a named person
4) Pseudonymous editing. All editors will be required to use a single account with the username being your actual first and last name.
Note that this does not mean that a Wikipedia-like regime of "citation needed" and all the crap that comes with that is going to be put in place. You are free to put in your personal knowledge that "the Harvard team was founded in 1991" or "the 2005 Michigan MLK used power tossups" or anything along those lines. It's only accusations of unethical behavior and the like that need citations. Pages such as "common arguments against the quality of the NAC" will still exist, but will have to uphold some standard of sourcing.
If people have objections to any of these plans, this thread is the place to talk about them. Remember to contact me if you want to help clean up the current pages.
We have already locked down the current Wiki so that we can accomplish the first goal, which is having a team of admins remove all "potentially libelous, personal, and in-joke content" from the pages before the migration. We need lots of help on this, so if you're interested, post here or send me an e-mail.
The cleaned-up pages will be put on the new Wiki without any way to access their histories. The original author will be listed as "QBWiki" and all former page histories and talk pages will be deleted. Thus, you can associate yourself with the new QBWiki without the risk of being tainted by any questionable content.
The new Wiki will be devoted to historical and linguistic content only, and will eliminate the following things:
1) Gossip about people in quizbowl
2) Neologisms that no one actually uses
3) Claims such as "this tournament plagiarized questions" or "a bunch of teams think this school's events suck" that aren't cited to either one of the public communications fora or an on-record interview with a named person
4) Pseudonymous editing. All editors will be required to use a single account with the username being your actual first and last name.
Note that this does not mean that a Wikipedia-like regime of "citation needed" and all the crap that comes with that is going to be put in place. You are free to put in your personal knowledge that "the Harvard team was founded in 1991" or "the 2005 Michigan MLK used power tossups" or anything along those lines. It's only accusations of unethical behavior and the like that need citations. Pages such as "common arguments against the quality of the NAC" will still exist, but will have to uphold some standard of sourcing.
If people have objections to any of these plans, this thread is the place to talk about them. Remember to contact me if you want to help clean up the current pages.
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
I want to thank Mike, Jonah, and Matt for doing this. I would suggest moving or mirroring this thread in a high school forum so that it gets a wider audience.
Re: New Home for the QBWiki
If there's an unreferenced article that's a) Canadian b) historical and c) objectionable, chances are, I got the juicy tidbits from a newspaper article and just forgot to put in the source (1989 Tagwi and 1995 Bell definitely happened).
What kind of restrictions will there be on new signups/posting? I know you want to filter out the people who make slurs about classmates, but what about a random person from, say, Nevada or Maine that has a treasure trove of articles about competition from that region? Will edits be pre-screened? limited to a select few people? under a "probation" period à la these forums?
What kind of restrictions will there be on new signups/posting? I know you want to filter out the people who make slurs about classmates, but what about a random person from, say, Nevada or Maine that has a treasure trove of articles about competition from that region? Will edits be pre-screened? limited to a select few people? under a "probation" period à la these forums?
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Yeah, I'll help with this.
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I think we should expand what we mean by "Gossip about people in quizbowl" a bit more. For instance, the stuff on the Andy Goss page referencing his 9/11 posts isn't really gossip--I believe the article contains links to the actual posts. Despite this fact, I don't think stuff like that belongs on the quizbowl wiki. I'd also like to see stuff like "The Worst Person in Quizbowl", also referenced on Goss' page, removed from the Wiki.
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Maybe add a requirement that the information included be relevant to the game of quizbowl, and reliable in that it should be rooted in factual information that can be cited.Bentley Like Beckham wrote:I think we should expand what we mean by "Gossip about people in quizbowl" a bit more. For instance, the stuff on the Andy Goss page referencing his 9/11 posts isn't really gossip--I believe the article contains links to the actual posts. Despite this fact, I don't think stuff like that belongs on the quizbowl wiki. I'd also like to see stuff like "The Worst Person in Quizbowl", also referenced on Goss' page, removed from the Wiki.
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Almost all of the 2700+ articles on the qbwiki need to be combed through and checked, edited and deleted. Thus, I need help to finish this.
I'd like this all to be done by Sunday.
As a guide, please be very aggressive in your editing. In-jokes and non-quizbowl content should be erased. The old version of the wiki will be kept online for a few weeks after the transfer in case someone wants to add this stuff back in (pending moderator approval).
Please post your qbwiki name here and I'll give you permission to edit these files and which letter(s) you want to sign up for to edit. For instance, if you picked "A", you'd be gonig through all of the You can search through all of the pages at: http://doc-ent.com/qbwiki/index.php?tit ... amespace=0
Here is the current list of people who have signed up:
1985-1990: ikillkenny
1991-1993: ikillkenny
1994-1996: ikillkenny
1996-1998: ikillkenny
1999-2001: ikillkenny
2002-2004: ikillkenny
2005-2009: ikillkenny
A: ikillkenny
B: ikillkenny
C: ikillkenny
D: ikillkenny
E: ikillkenny
F: ikillkenny
G: BrendanM
H: BrendanM
I: BrendanM
J: ikillkenny
K: ikillkenny
L: ikillkenny
M: ikillkenny
N: ikillkenny
O: ikillkenny
P: ikillkenny
Q: ikillkenny
R: ikillkenny
S: ikillkenny
T: ikillkenny
U: ikillkenny
V: ikillkenny
W: ikillkenny
X: ikillkenny
Y: ikillkenny
Z: ikillkenny
I'd like this all to be done by Sunday.
As a guide, please be very aggressive in your editing. In-jokes and non-quizbowl content should be erased. The old version of the wiki will be kept online for a few weeks after the transfer in case someone wants to add this stuff back in (pending moderator approval).
Please post your qbwiki name here and I'll give you permission to edit these files and which letter(s) you want to sign up for to edit. For instance, if you picked "A", you'd be gonig through all of the You can search through all of the pages at: http://doc-ent.com/qbwiki/index.php?tit ... amespace=0
Here is the current list of people who have signed up:
1985-1990: ikillkenny
1991-1993: ikillkenny
1994-1996: ikillkenny
1996-1998: ikillkenny
1999-2001: ikillkenny
2002-2004: ikillkenny
2005-2009: ikillkenny
A: ikillkenny
B: ikillkenny
C: ikillkenny
D: ikillkenny
E: ikillkenny
F: ikillkenny
G: BrendanM
H: BrendanM
I: BrendanM
J: ikillkenny
K: ikillkenny
L: ikillkenny
M: ikillkenny
N: ikillkenny
O: ikillkenny
P: ikillkenny
Q: ikillkenny
R: ikillkenny
S: ikillkenny
T: ikillkenny
U: ikillkenny
V: ikillkenny
W: ikillkenny
X: ikillkenny
Y: ikillkenny
Z: ikillkenny
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Mike Bentley
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
Charbroil; 1985-1996 (the first three sections listed)
I may be able to do more later, but I'll have to see how busy I am this weekend.
I may be able to do more later, but I'll have to see how busy I am this weekend.
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
Hey...any chance I might get editorial privileges some time soon?
Also, I'm curious as to what the editing standards are--I don't really understand why it's necessary to remove stuff like the JCV Fiasco from Willie Chen's page or anecdotes about tournaments from the Vincent Massey one, or, for that matter, commentary about the length of my Wiki article from my article. All of that is (presumably) factually true and Quiz Bowl related, without being particularly inappropriate, so why get rid of them? While there isn't a cited source for some of this kind of information, it's not as if many other things on the Wiki have sources either.
Also, I'm curious as to what the editing standards are--I don't really understand why it's necessary to remove stuff like the JCV Fiasco from Willie Chen's page or anecdotes about tournaments from the Vincent Massey one, or, for that matter, commentary about the length of my Wiki article from my article. All of that is (presumably) factually true and Quiz Bowl related, without being particularly inappropriate, so why get rid of them? While there isn't a cited source for some of this kind of information, it's not as if many other things on the Wiki have sources either.
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Sorry for the delay, you should not have editing access.
In general, my policy has been to strictly excise things that could go either way. For instance, much of the Willie Chen stuff falls in that category. For instance, that JCV stuff doesn't have any sources. I mean, is the following a true statement: "In February 2002, Willie Chen solicited a packet set from a collegiate packet-submission tournament being run at [[George Washington]], that school's long-running JCV Invitational, on the pretext that he would be mirroring it for California collegiate teams."? If you're willing to stand by this, find a source and re-post it to the new site.
The length of your wiki article doesn't have anything to do with anything and is quizbowl in-joke material. Same with anecdotes about tournaments. These are the type of things that don't have direct connections to quizbowl except that quizbowls were doing them. Do we really need to preserve on the Internet that someone fell down the stairs getting an award or something?
In general, my policy has been to strictly excise things that could go either way. For instance, much of the Willie Chen stuff falls in that category. For instance, that JCV stuff doesn't have any sources. I mean, is the following a true statement: "In February 2002, Willie Chen solicited a packet set from a collegiate packet-submission tournament being run at [[George Washington]], that school's long-running JCV Invitational, on the pretext that he would be mirroring it for California collegiate teams."? If you're willing to stand by this, find a source and re-post it to the new site.
The length of your wiki article doesn't have anything to do with anything and is quizbowl in-joke material. Same with anecdotes about tournaments. These are the type of things that don't have direct connections to quizbowl except that quizbowls were doing them. Do we really need to preserve on the Internet that someone fell down the stairs getting an award or something?
Mike Bentley
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I can see where you're coming from, especially on things like the falling down the stairs affair, since those things aren't really that important (and obviously I have no idea if the Willie Chen thing is true or not, since that was greatly before my time), but on the other hand some of those "in-jokes" I think are interesting because they reveal something that's reasonably noteworthy about the person/program the article is about--ex. my giant article reflects the fact that I'm long winded. :) Anyway, it's your call--I was just curious.
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I'd still really appreciate some help with this project.
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Sign me up to do, say, three letters of the alphabet.
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What's your QBWiki username?Aldo Montoya wrote:Sign me up to do, say, three letters of the alphabet.
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I've given you rights to edit and assigned you A-C.
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I would love to help.Bentley Like Beckham wrote:I'd still really appreciate some help with this project.
What do you need done?
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sourceBentley Like Beckham wrote:In general, my policy has been to strictly excise things that could go either way. For instance, much of the Willie Chen stuff falls in that category. For instance, that JCV stuff doesn't have any sources. I mean, is the following a true statement: "In February 2002, Willie Chen solicited a packet set from a collegiate packet-submission tournament being run at [[George Washington]], that school's long-running JCV Invitational, on the pretext that he would be mirroring it for California collegiate teams."? If you're willing to stand by this, find a source and re-post it to the new site.
Here's the major question: How do we go about citing things that do not exist publicly? For instance, I can give a complete list of teams that competed in the JV division of the high school tournament being referred to in that JCV paragraph. Since stats for that tournament were sent out as an Excel file that I doubt anyone still has, I don't know that anyone has the overall statistics of the tournament in either division; therefore, the only source that I know for certain to exist is my notebook of scores from my junior/senior year. This is thus documented evidence, but there is no way to actually cite this unless I somehow scan that notebook into a pdf and make it publicly available.
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See messages above. You're going through pages beginning with the assigned letters and deleting things that don't relate to quizbowl, aren't verifiable, etc (see above for more details).Dark Ages: Fae wrote:I would love to help.Bentley Like Beckham wrote:I'd still really appreciate some help with this project.
What do you need done?
What is your QBWiki username so I can give you permissions?
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You can source it by stating that you personally verify this information from the records in your notebook.cvdwightw wrote:sourceBentley Like Beckham wrote:In general, my policy has been to strictly excise things that could go either way. For instance, much of the Willie Chen stuff falls in that category. For instance, that JCV stuff doesn't have any sources. I mean, is the following a true statement: "In February 2002, Willie Chen solicited a packet set from a collegiate packet-submission tournament being run at [[George Washington]], that school's long-running JCV Invitational, on the pretext that he would be mirroring it for California collegiate teams."? If you're willing to stand by this, find a source and re-post it to the new site.
Here's the major question: How do we go about citing things that do not exist publicly? For instance, I can give a complete list of teams that competed in the JV division of the high school tournament being referred to in that JCV paragraph. Since stats for that tournament were sent out as an Excel file that I doubt anyone still has, I don't know that anyone has the overall statistics of the tournament in either division; therefore, the only source that I know for certain to exist is my notebook of scores from my junior/senior year. This is thus documented evidence, but there is no way to actually cite this unless I somehow scan that notebook into a pdf and make it publicly available.
Again, the non-edited version of the wiki will be up for a few days after the transfer is complete if you want to add stuff like this back in and have justification for doing so. This seems like a case where it would be valid.
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
Username: AmitpopBentley Like Beckham wrote:See messages above. You're going through pages beginning with the assigned letters and deleting things that don't relate to quizbowl, aren't verifiable, etc (see above for more details).Dark Ages: Fae wrote:I would love to help.Bentley Like Beckham wrote:I'd still really appreciate some help with this project.
What do you need done?
What is your QBWiki username so I can give you permissions?
Amit Bilgi
Southside '11
Fun fact: The "l" comes before the "g" in my last name.
Southside '11
Fun fact: The "l" comes before the "g" in my last name.
- Mike Bentley
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
I have given you permissions and assigned you some letters.
Mike Bentley
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Re: New Home for the QBWiki
So...what's going on with this??
Dan Donohue, Saint Viator ('10), Northwestern ('14), NAQT
Re: New Home for the QBWiki
People are still editing? I mean, Dan, if you want to sign up...
Charles Hang
Francis Howell Central '09
St. Charles Community College '14
Washington University in St. Louis '19, 2x (President, 2017-19)
Owner, Olympia Academic Competition Questions, LLC
Question Writer, National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC and National History Bee and Bowl
Francis Howell Central '09
St. Charles Community College '14
Washington University in St. Louis '19, 2x (President, 2017-19)
Owner, Olympia Academic Competition Questions, LLC
Question Writer, National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC and National History Bee and Bowl
Re: New Home for the QBWiki
Citation needed. This seems barely true; there have been three edits made in the past two weeks. Do people consider themselves done with their assignments?Charbroil wrote:People are still editing
Jonah Greenthal
National Academic Quiz Tournaments
National Academic Quiz Tournaments
Re: New Home for the QBWiki
Well, I meant in the sense of that there's more editing to be done.
Charles Hang
Francis Howell Central '09
St. Charles Community College '14
Washington University in St. Louis '19, 2x (President, 2017-19)
Owner, Olympia Academic Competition Questions, LLC
Question Writer, National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC and National History Bee and Bowl
Francis Howell Central '09
St. Charles Community College '14
Washington University in St. Louis '19, 2x (President, 2017-19)
Owner, Olympia Academic Competition Questions, LLC
Question Writer, National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC and National History Bee and Bowl
- Mike Bentley
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
I've been working on this on and off, but of course more help would be greatly appreciated.
Mike Bentley
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Re: New Home for the QBWiki
I guess I'll try some letters. Username BrendanM.
Brendan McKendy
University of Ottawa 2011
University of Ottawa 2011
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
Sorry for the delay. I've assigned you the letters G-I.bmcke wrote:I guess I'll try some letters. Username BrendanM.
Mike Bentley
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
Almost everything has been assigned.
Can people please finish this by this weekend? I'd like to get this project completed soon. If you can't finish it, let me know.
Can people please finish this by this weekend? I'd like to get this project completed soon. If you can't finish it, let me know.
Mike Bentley
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Re: New Home for the QBWiki
I just got letters, so I'd been hoping to do it on this weekend. Does midnight Saturday sound like an okay deadline?
Brendan McKendy
University of Ottawa 2011
University of Ottawa 2011
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
Yeah, this is fine. Let's say Sunday night is the deadline.bmcke wrote:I just got letters, so I'd been hoping to do it on this weekend. Does midnight Saturday sound like an okay deadline?
Mike Bentley
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Re: New Home for the QBWiki
I don't get why stuff like "this noted terrible tournament was terrible for these reasons" and "this terrible organization does these terrible things" are being removed. While cutting down on the random junk is something I'm generally in favor of, removing everything "negative" or not strictly related to the gameplay of quizbowl is making this wiki useless and boring.
Michael Arnold
Chicago 2010
Columbia Law 2013
2009 ACF Nats Champion
2010 ICT Champion
2010 CULT Champion
Member of Mike Cheyne's Quizbowl All-Heel Team
Fundamental Theorem of Quizbowl (Revised): Almost no one is actually good at quizbowl.
Chicago 2010
Columbia Law 2013
2009 ACF Nats Champion
2010 ICT Champion
2010 CULT Champion
Member of Mike Cheyne's Quizbowl All-Heel Team
Fundamental Theorem of Quizbowl (Revised): Almost no one is actually good at quizbowl.
- Mike Bentley
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
Do you want to cite specific examples?marnold wrote:I don't get why stuff like "this noted terrible tournament was terrible for these reasons" and "this terrible organization does these terrible things" are being removed. While cutting down on the random junk is something I'm generally in favor of, removing everything "negative" or not strictly related to the gameplay of quizbowl is making this wiki useless and boring.
The purpose of this pruning is to provide a baseline of information from which to build a new wiki, with stricter editorial control and less liable to e-mails the administrator gets every few months saying "remove this article that doesn't cite any information or I'm going to sue you for libel". If you, under your real name, want to add relevant information that got removed to the new wiki, you can attempt to do that. Or you can take some responsibility and host the original wiki on your own web server if you want, as that will be available if this is something you actually care about.
Mike Bentley
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Re: New Home for the QBWiki
Is there by any chance a way that we could get a copy of the old Wiki from before all of the deletions? I don't think that anyone has time at the moment to go through all of the old articles to see what deleted parts might be worth re-including, but there might be material in there that is worth including that someone might like to look at later.Bentley Like Beckham wrote:If you, under your real name, want to add relevant information that got removed to the new wiki, you can attempt to do that.
Charles Hang
Francis Howell Central '09
St. Charles Community College '14
Washington University in St. Louis '19, 2x (President, 2017-19)
Owner, Olympia Academic Competition Questions, LLC
Question Writer, National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC and National History Bee and Bowl
Francis Howell Central '09
St. Charles Community College '14
Washington University in St. Louis '19, 2x (President, 2017-19)
Owner, Olympia Academic Competition Questions, LLC
Question Writer, National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC and National History Bee and Bowl
- Mike Bentley
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
Yes, this will be available.Charbroil wrote:Is there by any chance a way that we could get a copy of the old Wiki from before all of the deletions? I don't think that anyone has time at the moment to go through all of the old articles to see what deleted parts might be worth re-including, but there might be material in there that is worth including that someone might like to look at later.Bentley Like Beckham wrote:If you, under your real name, want to add relevant information that got removed to the new wiki, you can attempt to do that.
Mike Bentley
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
- Matt Weiner
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
My suggestion is that we require a cite, but allow people to cite to "personal recollection" or so forth. That way it's clear who is making what claims and the operator of the site hosting the wiki is not viewed as liable.
Matt Weiner
Advisor to Quizbowl at Virginia Commonwealth University / Founder of hsquizbowl.org
Advisor to Quizbowl at Virginia Commonwealth University / Founder of hsquizbowl.org
Re: New Home for the QBWiki
The particular articles I was referencing are the edits to "Harvest Bowl" (which took out the particulars of why the tournament sucked) and "Honda Campus All-Star Challenge" (that took out the particulars of why some of its policies were hateful, one of the primary pieces of evidence of CBI being a terrible organization). Other things randomly culled from the recent changes page: Meredith Johnson was, in fact, almost universally known as Hug Girl, and everyone knew who she was because of it; Rom's knowledge of auto racing and owning of cats are both common knowledge to most people in quizbowl now and are topics of conversation both with him and among others; Hannah Kirsch probably won't sue anyone because her page says she likes obscure classical composers and science fiction, etc.
The implication behind you saying I could host it myself is obviously correct: you and the new admins are doing a good thing by hosting any kind of qbwiki, even a whitewashed one, and it's ultimately your decision what you do with it. I'm not going to host it because this isn't something I'm actually that invested in; it isn't that big a deal, I'm just saying the concern of lawsuits and search engines is making the wiki less interesting.
The implication behind you saying I could host it myself is obviously correct: you and the new admins are doing a good thing by hosting any kind of qbwiki, even a whitewashed one, and it's ultimately your decision what you do with it. I'm not going to host it because this isn't something I'm actually that invested in; it isn't that big a deal, I'm just saying the concern of lawsuits and search engines is making the wiki less interesting.
Michael Arnold
Chicago 2010
Columbia Law 2013
2009 ACF Nats Champion
2010 ICT Champion
2010 CULT Champion
Member of Mike Cheyne's Quizbowl All-Heel Team
Fundamental Theorem of Quizbowl (Revised): Almost no one is actually good at quizbowl.
Chicago 2010
Columbia Law 2013
2009 ACF Nats Champion
2010 ICT Champion
2010 CULT Champion
Member of Mike Cheyne's Quizbowl All-Heel Team
Fundamental Theorem of Quizbowl (Revised): Almost no one is actually good at quizbowl.
Re: New Home for the QBWiki
Most of those are H's, Marnold, so your issues might be specific to my edits. If that information is valid, I think there's a period of time where you can add it all back, once the wiki gets unlocked again.marnold wrote:The particular articles I was referencing are the edits to "Harvest Bowl" (which took out the particulars of why the tournament sucked) and "Honda Campus All-Star Challenge" (that took out the particulars of why some of its policies were hateful, one of the primary pieces of evidence of CBI being a terrible organization). Other things randomly culled from the recent changes page: Meredith Johnson was, in fact, almost universally known as Hug Girl, and everyone knew who she was because of it; Rom's knowledge of auto racing and owning of cats are both common knowledge to most people in quizbowl now and are topics of conversation both with him and among others; Hannah Kirsch probably won't sue anyone because her page says she likes obscure classical composers and science fiction, etc.
Brendan McKendy
University of Ottawa 2011
University of Ottawa 2011
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
I'll deal with the other posts in this thread tomorrow, but I've now finished everything I signed myself up for in the post above.
Can other people please update the status of their assignments?
Can other people please update the status of their assignments?
Mike Bentley
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Re: New Home for the QBWiki
My letters are finished.
(Is this how you update status?)
(Is this how you update status?)
Brendan McKendy
University of Ottawa 2011
University of Ottawa 2011
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
Yes, this is how you report your status on this project. Thanks for helping out.bmcke wrote:My letters are finished.
(Is this how you update status?)
Mike Bentley
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
Treasurer, Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence
Adviser, Quizbowl Team at University of Washington
University of Maryland, Class of 2008
- Nine-Tenths Ideas
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Re: New Home for the QBWiki
Wading my way through my letters. I'm hesitant to delete some things, but have no objection to letting "A. J. Raffles" go.
Isaac Hirsch
University of Maryland '14
Never Gonna Play Again
University of Maryland '14
Never Gonna Play Again