If there is no struggle there is no progress … Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.
—Frederick Douglass
Hi, I'm Andreas Kolbe.
I was a founding member of Wikipedia criticism site Wikipediocracy
and later served for a while as co-editor-in-chief of Wikipedia's
community newsletter, the Signpost. My Twitter handle is Wikiland.
Bons mots
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On the internetBy removing the face-to-face aspect of human interaction, the internet dehumanises people, and our imagination often turns them into inflated monsters, more terrifying because they are in the shadows. Meeting them in person rehumanises them again. —Jamie Bartlett, The Dark Net On Wikipedia in general
On the accuracy of press sources
The NPOV policy explained
Verifiability and truth explained
"Assume good faith" explained
On God and the world
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GA candidates I've reviewed
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Guidelines and essays I've written or contributed to
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Some of the images I uploaded, taken either by myself or my wife
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