Philewikism
My primary method of staying sane this last finals period was to observe the recent changes in Daviswiki. It gave me the feeling of poking me head out of my burrow much like a meerkat and observing the outside world. This observation was suprisingly entertaining, shockingly dramatic, and deplorably distracting.
In particular, it appears that my CCC poll on ucdavis caught the attention of one Saul Sugarman, who then experienced WikiRapture and commenced a vigorous crusade to edit the Wiki to what he found a more desirable state.
Anyway, the following are some conversations about the wiki and these events which I found rather amusing.
[05-03-20]
[02:02.13] CodeToad01: KRIS FRICKE
[02:02.13] *** Auto-response sent to CodeToad01: victim of terminal resistentialism
[02:02.14] CodeToad01: you asshat
[02:02.20] CodeToad01: you were going to take a photo of you in a cardboard box you loser1
[02:22.14] Snail of DEATH: I haven't had a chance.. I'll do it asap
[02:22.19] CodeToad01: LIES
[02:22.21] CodeToad01: nowwww'
[02:22.25] CodeToad01: ive been drinking
[02:22.28] CodeToad01: so i wanna change the wiki
[02:22.29] Snail of DEATH: awesome
[02:22.32] Snail of DEATH: what've you been drinking
[02:22.33] CodeToad01: ps 7 pages until 3000
[02:22.36] Snail of DEATH: haha don't drink and wiki!!!
[02:22.37] CodeToad01: 3000 freakin pages
[02:22.40] CodeToad01: Rolling RTock
[02:22.43] CodeToad01: WORSE -- im CODING wiki
[02:22.49] Snail of DEATH: awesome!!
[02:22.52] Snail of DEATH: see
[02:22.57] Snail of DEATH: this is why you get medals!!
[05-03-22]
[00:24.51] Snail of DEATH: I can't believe it didn't occur to me earlier to mention the ASUCD Gulag
[00:25.02] The Labster: can you get the lock?
[00:25.05] Snail of DEATH: the loser of the argument should definitely be sent there
[00:25.09] Snail of DEATH: I think Saul has [the lock] again
[00:25.11] Snail of DEATH: hehe
[00:25.24] Snail of DEATH: there needs to be an amulet of getting-the-wiki-lock
[00:25.53] The Labster: hmmm... i need to be able to draw that.
[00:26.15] Snail of DEATH: /=
[00:26.28] The Labster: i so want to "DisagreeByDeleting" right now.
[00:27.59] Snail of DEATH: don't give in to the dark side
[00:28.16] The Labster: there is so much power in the dark side...
[00:28.22] Snail of DEATH: I really want one of you to define more specifically what you guys are arguing about
[00:28.37] Snail of DEATH: because no good can come of arguing in generalities
[00:28.58] The Labster: oddly enough, the entire history of Cost Plus World Market
[05-03-23]
[02:10.43] The Labster: I never have that restraint. I tend to be the first one to attack.
[02:11.00] Snail of DEATH: never be the first to attack! has Yoda taught you nothing?
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[02:29.28] Snail of DEATH: but he does intervene not infrequently
[02:29.50] Snail of DEATH: usually in opposition to me, since I'll try to facilitate any debate and he'll actually squash the ones he finds dumb
[02:29.54] Snail of DEATH: hence my troll page :-[
[02:30.02] Darth Laabs2: he just makes sure that it's going in the right direction, and gives it a little nudge. but the philosophy of creation, both of nature and the wiki, the individual nature of free will is supposed to create something better.
[02:30.34] Snail of DEATH: so Wiki is life and Phil is God, Saul is the anti-christ?
[02:30.50] Darth Laabs: pretty much, yeah.
[02:31.12] Snail of DEATH: and it is much more important to Phil that The People reject Saul than that Saul get struck down from on high?
[02:31.47] Darth Laabs: he could always pull out the banhammer +12. but he hasn't yet.
[03:29.26] Snail of DEATH: I think Banhammer 3000 should be a game
[03:29.34] Snail of DEATH: with little miniatures of wikiers...
[02:39.35] Snail of DEATH: ::places +2 landmine of controversy-waiting-to-happen::
[02:40.43] Darth Laabs: failed my lurk in shadows check.
[02:42.21] Snail of DEATH: ::performs a reload recent changes roll::
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[02:38.14] Darth Laabs: yay. though it was awfully fun wrangling for the edit lock.
[02:38.21] Snail of DEATH: haha
[02:38.42] Snail of DEATH: "+3 lasso of capture edit lock"
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[03:55.26] Snail of DEATH: I waste too much time wiki watching
[03:55.33] Darth Laabs: me too
[03:55.39] Snail of DEATH: its funny though
[03:55.45] Snail of DEATH: that I haven't even been making edits
[03:55.50] Snail of DEATH: but I'm entertained by watching the wiki
[03:56.06] Snail of DEATH: it just needs WWF announcers to narrate it
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[03:59.50] The Labster: uh, are you okay arlen?
[03:59.??] The Labster: i mean, i know you're better than everyone there, but still
[03:60.??] Arlosuave: i'm drunk and angry, but i'll get over it
[05-03-25]
[10:38.04] CodeToad01: no, tehre are no other wikis for cities
[10:38.07] CodeToad01: they all suck it hard if at all
[10:38.12] executivecommite: amazing
[10:38.19] CodeToad01: davis wiki is unique
[10:38.19] executivecommite: I feel like I'm part of something glorious
[10:38.23] CodeToad01: you are
[10:38.28] CodeToad01: i made an lj post about it long ago
[10:38.39] executivecommite: about how daviswiki is glorious?
[10:38.56] executivecommite: its like, being with Mohammed when he received his revelations.... and getting to edit them!
[10:38.57] executivecommite: :-D
[10:39.51] executivecommite: He was gonna write "I think there is probably no god but Allah" in the Koran, but I pointed out that that didn't sound objective and we got in an edit war
1I couldn’t find a box so Phil ended up completing the assignment himself.
2I renamed Brent Laabs’ SN on my list at some point in lieu of the dark side references and because I can. I am frequently amused by giving people names I find more amusing for them ...especially people I don’t like =D