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==My time at Wikipedia==

==Back from Hong Kong==

Back in 2012, I estimate that I ranked somewhere around No. 5 as an active non-administrative editor at Wikipedia. I could boast tens of thousands of edits on as well as a clean eight-year track record. So what does it take for a senior editor to get banned? You can write [[User:PeterKa/Filipacchi | an essay mocking a feminist friend]] of Executive Director Sue Gardner.

I'm back from Hong Kong and it was certainly quite a week to be there. Hong Kong is a former British colony and has been ruled by China since 1997. The city has a unique "one country, two systems" form of government that allows British-style rule of law to continue despite the fact that the government is now appointed by the Chinese Communist Party. There have been pro-democracy protests in the city for the past several months. The protests expanded dramatically and took a violent turn after a decree banning masks took effect on Oct. 5.<br/>Chinese President Xi Jinping has a villa in Hong Kong at Repulse Bay. When I talked to the protesters, I suggested taking a look at that. But it seems that they prefer to attack the subway system. The entire system had to be shut down following the mask banned.

 

After I was banned at Wikipedia, [http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3489&p=71637 I took my case to Wikipediocracy], a Wikipedia criticism site. They banned me almost immediately, like they knew I was coming. Gardner's clique apparently ran both sites at the time. Gardner left Wikipedia in May 2014.

File:V-Barracade across Nathan Road in Mongkok.jpg|A barricade in Mongkok District, Oct. 5.  

 

File:China_Liaison_Office,_Hong_Kong.jpeg|The city's Communist Party Headquarters, Sai Ying Pun District.

My latest appeal got [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive929#User:Kauffner_request_for_unblock_per_WP:STANDARDOFFER sixteen angry replies in the space of eight hours], an extraordinary response for an ANI post. According to the guidelines, the admin is always right and the sanctioned user must apologize. So there is a basis to reject my appeal. But not one response made a constructive suggestion of any kind. No one discussed how the appeal could be improved or what trust-building activity might be appropriate. Instead, the commenters attacked on my "mentality" and even described the appeal itself as "practically trolling." (Huh?)

File:Glass broken in Hong Kong protests.jpeg|After the mask ban took effect, the city experienced a wave of vandalism. This pane is at Mei Foo Station.

 

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Each discussion of my case has featured a different "real reason" as to why I was banned. The comments are always in synch with the current party line, and no one is confused as to which reason is the "real" one this time around. During my time on Wikipedia, I count five separate occasions when angry mobs came out of nowhere to dominate otherwise sleepy forums. In short, the system is rigged with eager-to-please editors notified through IRC, or however they do it.

 

Few of the editors who condemn me in the latest discussion have even one tenth the level of experience that I have. Several have less than one twentieth. Yet each and every one of them is confident that they understand Wikipedia better than I do.  

 

 

* Read my [[User:PeterKa/Filipacchi | parody of Wikipedia's gender categories affair]]. Behold the masterpiece that Wikipedia censored and banned me for.

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive710#billinghurst_has_closed_multiple_similar_RMs Watch me blow the lid off the Ivory Coast RM scam]. I expose the shenanigans of corrupt admin User:Billinghurst.

* [[User:PeterKa/Arbcom | My Arbcom appeal]] has a blow-by-blow account of what happened during my time on Wikipedia.

* [[Diacritic]] — This is a zippy overview of a controversial aspect of my editing.

* [[User:PeterKa/Diacritics_proposal |Diacritics proposal]] — You can find a detailed set of arguments here.

 

==What I have written==

==What I have written==

*[[Nazarene]]‎, [[J. Frank Norris]], [[Peter Ruckman]], [[Textus Receptus]], [[sensus plenior]], [[divine accommodation]], [[Yule]], [[Johannine Comma]], [[Codex Washingtonianus]], [[Star of Bethlehem]], [[Fundamentalism]], [[Tertiary]], [[Andy McIntosh]], [[Akhenaten]], [[Tutankhamun]], [[Nefertiti]]

*[[Nazarene]]‎, [[J. Frank Norris]], [[Peter Ruckman]], [[Textus Receptus]], [[sensus plenior]], [[divine accommodation]], [[Yule]], [[Johannine Comma]], [[Codex Washingtonianus]], [[Star of Bethlehem]], [[Fundamentalism]], [[Tertiary]], [[Andy McIntosh]], [[Akhenaten]], [[Tutankhamun]], [[Nefertiti]]

*[[Republicans (Jeffersonian)]],  [[Classical Chinese]], [[Empress Dowager Cixi]], [[diacritic]], [[Mandarin]], [[Nuclear option]], [[Star_Trek_franchise#Political_themes]], [[Tang Tuyet Minh]], [[Roman Warm Period]], [[No Gun Ri]], [[Vietcong]], [[Republic of China]], [[rule of law]], [[YAD06]], [[Girls' Generation]], [[Xia dynasty]], [[Shang dynasty]]

*[[Republicans (Jeffersonian)]],  [[Classical Chinese]], [[Empress Dowager Cixi]], [[diacritic]], [[Mandarin]], [[Nuclear option]], [[Star_Trek_franchise#Political_themes]], [[Tang Tuyet Minh]], [[Roman Warm Period]], [[No Gun Ri]], [[Vietcong]], [[Republic of China]], [[rule of law]], [[YAD06]], [[Girls' Generation]], [[Xia dynasty]], [[Shang dynasty]]