The Quixotic Potato left this unusual message on Karen Brown's page:

> I am a board-approved potato, please do not revert me. Thanks in advance, The Quixotic Potato (talk) 16:27, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Kbrown_(WMF)&diff=17005761&oldid=16902278 https://archive.is/ncuCF

This seems to be about TQP's addition of a {{cn}} tag to the WMF Annual Plan

> (Undo revision 17005716 by The Quixotic Potato (talk) This text is a board-approved document; please do not add or remove things to/from it) (undo)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Final&diff=prev&oldid=17005745

So it's just trolling, but TQP does seem to have an unexplained amount of protection.

From Daniel Brandt ten years ago:

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/profile/3089-daniel-brandt/ https://archive.is/j1TEG

> Since June 2006, a top administrator at Wikipedia has kept six sites by Public Information Research on the Wikimedia Foundation's spam blacklist without justification, and has ignored requests by other editors to explain himself. If a domain is on this blacklist, any Wikipedia editor who tries to link to any page on that site has his edit aborted. These six sites are all nonprofit and tax-exempt, and none has ever carried any ads. How do they qualify as spam? The six websites: www.namebase.org www.google-watch.org www.scroogle.org www.yahoo-watch.org www.cia-on-campus.org www.wikipedia-watch.org

Let's visit archive.org to see what those sites used to look like.

www.namebase.org

> This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.

www.google-watch.org

> This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.

www.scroogle.org

> This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.

www.yahoo-watch.org

> This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.

www.cia-on-campus.org

> This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.

www.wikipedia-watch.org

> This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.

What the fuck, archive.org?

This is a very interesting exchange here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction#Please_stop_your_association_with_Minassian_Media.2C_Inc._until_you.27ve_cleaned_up_the_cabals_on_en.wp

1. Sashi says fire the Clinton Foundation and the cabals on en.wiki

1. IP says several WMF board members work from the top of the Democratic Party's PR machine, names the PR agencies but not the people

1. Nemo_bis / Federica Leva of Wikimedia Italy comes in to defend Soros, accuse the IP of working for Hungarian intelligence, and dump speeches against Hungary from top EU officials