Michael Snow is out and Phoebe Ayers (also known as the brass rat girl) is in.




Press release WMF Announces Changes to the Board

hmm, I wonder what anthere thinks of Ting being chair?
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/found...May/058020.html

When Flo and Ting Chen fight the English language is held hostage.

As far as I can make out Ting Chen took a pretty orthodox position concerning WMF role in the projects but Flo was pushing for an even more extreme autonomy (irresponsible) position. Anyone have a different reading?

English is not their native language...what's your excuse Shakespeare...

Madame Flo clearly advocates a support and advisory role for the WMF, with a diminishing authority over time. This would effectively degrade the last, and greatest, trump card in Unca Jimbo's deck. If the WMF board can't, or won't, get rid of him, then rendering it irrelevant as well would eliminate most of what influence he has left (he's already starting to look more and more like just another editor .

Or to use Flo's maternal analogy (though it is a bit odd outside of theology and creation mythos to find a parent born 4 years after the child! :

The En:Wiki has clearly come of age, and so should be free to say, with love, Fuck off, mommy dearest!

From our standpoint as anti-Jimbots and members of the Wiki-Kool Aide Prohibition Alliance this is a good thing...yes?

Je dit Oh HELLS OUI!
GO FLOFLO! ALLONS-Y

Ting Chen?

I thought you were discussing a hot Asian chick , but alias, its a man wearing shorts and sandals.
Ting Chen

Really?

I think he's right in line with his impractical, unrealistic, and unethical predecessors:

Sounds like he has an unlimited supply of the Kool-Aid.

Think it's just a coincidence that former Chair Michael Snow's last edit to Wikipedia (before he stepped off / was removed from the WMF board of trustees) regarded cock and ball torture?

Anybody have word on how this Chen-for-Snow deal shook down?

Alias?

Alas, no one can use this beautiful word anymore.

The Koolaid is strong within Noein:
(speaking on Jimbo's sexual images decree).

"The Humanity Heritage"? Wikipedia? Really?

Ting Chen's ascendancy has made the news.

I like Brutus' Ting Chen much, much better!



Obviously, they edit Wikis the same way that they play World Cup soccer!



Does that mean you are Ting-a-ling with excitement?

I just read that as a Kood Aid-y anti-POINT screed reminding us that the rules are not consistent on WP. The only consistant rules on Wikipedia are WP:ILIKEIT and WP:IMOREPOWERFULTHANYOU.


Somebody said: "Oy, these Mormons are so 1950's when it comes to cock and ball torture."

"Yeah, it's like they want poodle skirts and Duck's Ass haircuts back."

Pretty soon they figured Snow probably couldn't take it. Asian guys are just as tractable as Mormons about doing what anybody who looks vaguely in authority tells them to do, plus they have fewer hangups about sex.

I agree.

I have to say that I, too, am impressed with the choice of Ting Chen as the WMF Board chairperson. It's high time these boardmembers started performing some sort of useful role, and that clearly won't be a problem for Mr. Chen, whose leadership and keen sense of diplomacy will finally allow the WMF staff to order "off-menu" items at some of San Francisco's more "traditional" Chinese restaurants.

However, let's not forget that he's still a high-level WMF functionary, and like all high-level WMF functionaries, he's guilty until proven not to exist.

Pluck your twanger, Chuckie ...

Yes! Moar Song Parodies!

Yet another perfect example of Wikipediot Not-Of-The-Body Expunction (WP:NOTBE).

Jon

Greg's fine article @ Examiner.com — not too shabby by-pic, too! — had this emusing botogenic ad.

Jon

Following a lead from one of the commenters on the examiner.com article, I found this old 2004 conversation between Mr. Ting Chen (as Philopp (T-C-L-K-R-D) - later renamed to Wing (T-C-L-K-R-D) ) and another Chinese user, Yacht (T-C-L-K-R-D) - later pronounced "Throatwarblermangrove."

Apparently, in 2004 at least, Mr. Chen believed that the Christian religion is largely responsible for the existence - or specifically, the "importation" - of homophobia into China.
Of course, as the commenter says, he's probably correct. (We had a similar situation in Des Moines, where gay folks were treated like "just regular corn-eatin' folks" until the Christians showed up and forced them all to drive Volvos and BMWs.) But statements like that, even from six years ago, could cost him the support of Mr. Ottava, who as we all know was brought into Wikipedia because of his credentials as an ethicist, and who is about as strident a supporter of the Christian-right anti-gay-rights agenda as is possible to get without being a regular Fox News on-air personality.

Without that vital support, I fear Mr. Chen's tenure as WMF Chairperson is likely to be a short one. (I give him 45 more minutes, tops, unless he manages to buy a few button-down shirts.)

I should also point out that the Christian religion was unable to export "homophobe" into Brazil until the 1970's, due to prohibitively high tariffs.

Yeah, that photo is killer. Who knew that Greg would be the 21st century answer of Gale Sondergaard's Spider Woman?

And speaking of photos -- not to sound utterly atrocious, but couldn't Ting provide a classier photograph?

What for horsey? Anyone can edit!

Could I just be the first to start the rumor that Teng-a-Cheng is in reality a very clever deep secret undercover agent for Communist China's Te-Wu who are, at this very moment, attempting to infiltrate the Wikipedia worldwide network of website in order to subtly control consensus about various sensitive issues.

Not that I have any evidence to suggest so but ... so what ... it is the Wikipedia after all. And would not one expert them to?

For anyone that has any doubt about how good they are, remember Bernard Boursicot, a French diplomat caught in a honeypot trap seduction by Shi Pei Pu, a male Peking opera singer whom Boursicot believed to be female. And, For those otherwise inclined to more "Christian" practises, there is always Pian Mei, 2nd runner-up of Miss Beijing 1993, and thought to be the top female Secret Service in China.


Meanwhile, Claude Moniquet from the European Strategic Intelligence and Security Centre said recently ...

If not Teng-a-Cheng, who is it?

Incidentally, I have seen those guys and gals in action and they are frighteningly effective.

You mean something like this?

The person who took that picture of me was 5 years old. Go figure.

Is that five-year-old on Wikipedia, too?

Mod Note: Moved Dutch stuff into Dutch Vacation thread in Annex.

GBG.

Ting Chen on Facebook

Cue: whacko conspiracy theory ... you see, that proves he is a Red under the Bed type spy and trying to infiltrate Facebook too. Look, he even has a camera and a shifty look.

So who is this guy, what power and influence does he really have?

Personally, I've always wondered if there was connection between Wing (T-C-L-K-R-D) ) and Wing...however that probably tells you more about me than about anything else...

He also acknowledges being gay. I wonder if he is also spying for Michael Lucas' Mossad!

Hmmm.
Germans as well...and Ting Wing is both.

There's gotta be a song parody in this somewhere.