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There is something amusing about the fact that WinDirStat, as far as I know, was based on KDirStat (now QDirStat), yet this doesn't even get mentioned on their
by jchw 5mo ago
There is something amusing about the fact that WinDirStat, as far as I know, was based on KDirStat (now QDirStat), yet this doesn't even get mentioned on their Wikipedia page, and by and large a lot of people don't even know QDirStat exists. One time someone even asked me if they knew of a good alternative for Linux; good news!
- squigz 5mo agoIt is actually mentioned on the Wikipedia page [1] - and of course, you could add it yourself if that's not enough. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinDirStat#Version_history[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinDirStat#Version_history[10]
- analog8374 5mo agoEverything I ever added to Wikipedia was removed, within the day, by a very diligent and hard-working Wikipedia person.
- realitylabs 5mo agoSame. My experience with the “concept” of Wikipedia was very high until I had the “direct experience” of Wikipedia, and I realized that the encyclopedia of the commons may not have planned for me to be in the commons.
- squigz 5mo agoEverything I've ever added was kept.
- chris_wot 5mo agoGood for you I guess. Everything I ever added was kept, and I was permanently banned. I created [ciation needed], started the admins noticeboard, reworked the USA Patriot Act article, wrote numerous articles for WiR with extensive referencing, contributed to peer review and good article reviews, and a shitload more, but nope. Not good enough. Why anyone would contribute to that cesspool is anyone’s guess.
- squigz 5mo agoThis comment is a little light on the reasoning for why you were permabanned.
- chris_wot 5mo agoI commented on BrownHairedGirl’s RFA. The most toxic user ever on Wikipedia. I can assure you, there are those on Wikipedia who committed far worse offenses and they remain. Like I say - a cesspool that doesn’t respect article writers.
- bragr 5mo agoWere you Chris.sherlock/Aussie Article Writer on Wikipedia? Sounds like pot calling the kettle black re: toxic. You had an interaction ban against her FFS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1076#h-Piotrus'_concerns_about_User:BrownHairedGirl-2021-08-08T15:43:00.000Z https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_no...
- chris_wot 4mo agoAnd why was that interaction ban enacted? It was immenseley unfair. It was pathetic in fact, given it was a one-way ban, and she had consistently denigrated me. Unless you think that's justice. So no, not the pot calling the kettle black in any way. She had her coiterie of followers, and she was banned as a bully. They enabled her.
- ChrisClark 5mo agoAh, I see, you were instigating constantly and people were sick of your shit. Seems like a reasonable ban, especially when you violated an IBAN already.
- chris_wot 4mo agoHow was I instigating constantly, Chris? Can you provide any evidence of that? Perhaps an ArbCom investigation? You can't, because that never happened. But hey, keep defending BrownHairedGirl. You seem to be fine with her constant abuse!
- jchw 5mo agoNot absolutely everything I've ever contributed was kept, but definitely a lot of it. I genuinely get the feeling that the modern Wikipedia hatred comes from somewhere other than a few unfortunate edit wars, but I'm not in-tune enough to know.
- dd8601fn 5mo agoI’ve seen the nit-pick reversions and I’ve seen clear ones. But when I hear people really complain somewhere I do tend to assume they were trying to smuggle in some specific messaging and got caught.
- HoldOnAMinute 5mo agoSame. Even a single sentence with an easily verifiable fact. Reverted in seconds.
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- LorenPechtel 5mo agoI'm sort of in the middle on this. Some pages have somebody guarding the party line, anything that goes against that gets reverted. (How can putting an accurate link behind a piece of text be wrong??) Pages without such guardians I've never had an issue.
- jchw 5mo agoOkay, I stand corrected, but I also stand by that it is interesting that it is pointed out that "The project was inspired by SequoiaView" in the lead section, but not that it was a direct port of KDirStat. It feels odd but also intentional, so I never bothered to change it. I'll leave it up to if anyone else feels similarly enough to do so, because then at least that means there are two of us.
- burnte 5mo agoSpaceSniffer is an even better version of WinDirStat but I rarely see people talk about it, too.
- Sophira 5mo agoTo my knowledge, SequoiaView[0] predates even KDirStat - it just didn't have the tree view paired with it. [0] https://sequoiaview.win.tue.nl/ https://sequoiaview.win.tue.nl/
- jchw 5mo agoNo doubt KDirStat was based on SequoiaView, but WinDirStat was based directly on KDirStat, as in it was a port of it to Windows. I don't think it is incorrect to mention SequoiaView as the original, but it nonetheless feels weird to skip a hop too. It got not just the tree view but even the name from KDirStat.