[jchw]

There is something amusing about the fact that WinDirStat, as far as I know, was based on KDirStat (now QDirStat), yet this doesn't even get mentioned on their Wikipedia page, and by and large a lot of people don't even know QDirStat exists. One time someone even asked me if they knew of a good alternative for Linux; good news!

[squigz]

It is actually mentioned on the Wikipedia page [1] - and of course, you could add it yourself if that's not enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinDirStat#Version_history[10]

[jchw]

Okay, I stand corrected, but I also stand by that it is interesting that it is pointed out that "The project was inspired by SequoiaView" in the lead section, but not that it was a direct port of KDirStat. It feels odd but also intentional, so I never bothered to change it. I'll leave it up to if anyone else feels similarly enough to do so, because then at least that means there are two of us.

[analog8374]

Everything I ever added to Wikipedia was removed, within the day, by a very diligent and hard-working Wikipedia person.

[realitylabs]

Same. My experience with the “concept” of Wikipedia was very high until I had the “direct experience” of Wikipedia, and I realized that the encyclopedia of the commons may not have planned for me to be in the commons.

[LorenPechtel]

I'm sort of in the middle on this.

Some pages have somebody guarding the party line, anything that goes against that gets reverted. (How can putting an accurate link behind a piece of text be wrong??)

Pages without such guardians I've never had an issue.

[squigz]

Everything I've ever added was kept.

[jchw]

Not absolutely everything I've ever contributed was kept, but definitely a lot of it. I genuinely get the feeling that the modern Wikipedia hatred comes from somewhere other than a few unfortunate edit wars, but I'm not in-tune enough to know.

[dd8601fn]

I’ve seen the nit-pick reversions and I’ve seen clear ones.

But when I hear people really complain somewhere I do tend to assume they were trying to smuggle in some specific messaging and got caught.

[chris_wot]

Good for you I guess.

Everything I ever added was kept, and I was permanently banned. I created [ciation needed], started the admins noticeboard, reworked the USA Patriot Act article, wrote numerous articles for WiR with extensive referencing, contributed to peer review and good article reviews, and a shitload more, but nope. Not good enough.

Why anyone would contribute to that cesspool is anyone’s guess.

[squigz]

This comment is a little light on the reasoning for why you were permabanned.

[kemayo]

Someone did the research-digging a while back about this, if you want a third-party view: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45136376

[chris_wot]

I commented on BrownHairedGirl’s RFA. The most toxic user ever on Wikipedia.

I can assure you, there are those on Wikipedia who committed far worse offenses and they remain.

Like I say - a cesspool that doesn’t respect article writers.

[HoldOnAMinute]

Same. Even a single sentence with an easily verifiable fact. Reverted in seconds.

[Sophira]

To my knowledge, SequoiaView[0] predates even KDirStat - it just didn't have the tree view paired with it.

[0] https://sequoiaview.win.tue.nl/

[jchw]

No doubt KDirStat was based on SequoiaView, but WinDirStat was based directly on KDirStat, as in it was a port of it to Windows. I don't think it is incorrect to mention SequoiaView as the original, but it nonetheless feels weird to skip a hop too. It got not just the tree view but even the name from KDirStat.

[burnte]

SpaceSniffer is an even better version of WinDirStat but I rarely see people talk about it, too.