User talk:Terje

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Norman Kirk

I was unaware of Norman Kirk, but the timing of his sudden demise does seem interesting, in light of the Canberra Coup. I've expanded the page. -- Robin (talk) 03:17, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Redirects

I just fixed BILD Zeitung. Note that redirects only need the page name:

#REDIRECT[[Axel_Springer_Publishing_House]] , not #REDIRECT[[https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Axel_Springer_Publishing_House]]

-- Robin (talk) 04:08, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing it. I still haven't mastered the tools here, it will take a long time.

Ditchley

a) How to express the relationships between these Ditchley groups? What would you think about having hierarchical pagenames, e.g. Ditchley, Ditchley/UK, Ditchley/US, Ditchley/Canada etc?

b) For listing members, where possible, try to use the template (metadata), since this data is machine readable, so will appear on other pages (e.g. as "Member of: Ditchley/UK"). I did this for the Bilderberg meetings after all the attendance lists were leaked. There are different ways this could be done, and I'm not sure which would work best. One approach might be to have a page Ditchley/Governors (c.f. Bilderberg/Steering committee) and tp use |members= to allocate membership. Background information is: How many members/governors/meetings are there? Where is this documented? How often does membership change?... -- Robin (talk) 09:46, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi Robin, Thanks for the tip, I was struggling with making proper lists. I'll look into it on the weekend.

And yes, I belive Ditchley, Ditchley/UK, Ditchley/US, Ditchley/Canada would work.

Conversing

For starting new conversations, the user talk page is good. Where there's an ongoing conversation, I'm not automatically informed, but will probably keep an eye on replies. Do remember to end comments on talk pages with "-- ~~~~", which signs it. -- Robin (talk) 15:09, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

Documents

Do add as many wikilinks (with '[') as you think helpful. The most important suggestion I have for what else to add would be |description, since this will help people navigate. -- Robin (talk) 14:33, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Not all Integrity Initaive documents are linked

Not all II4 documents are showing in https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Integrity_Initiative/Leak/4. Is there anything I can do to get them to show. Example of one not showing: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:CND_Integrity_Initiative_visit_to_Oslo,_29-31_Aug_2016

Or should I make a separate page with a list of all II4 documents existing on Wikispooks, including the ones that are jpg -pictures and pdf files? -- Terje (talk)

Looks OK to me. It might take time to appear. -- Robin (talk) 11:11, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

Okey-dokey, I'll keep an eye on them, and see if they show up over the next few weeks. I'll start on batch II 3 soon, it is more work than I anticipated. -- Terje (talk)

Mange takk

Mange takk for hjelpen med wikispooks prosjektet. Det blir satt stor pris på Terje.

Your Integrity Initiative work is most welcome, as is your latest Military basepage. -- Peter (talk) 15:43, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

It is my pleasure, Peter - this is fun! And let's see if the Wikispooks profile can be raised a bit in the future.--Terje (talk)

Finding the Wikispooks page

Here's a tip on finding the Wikispooks pagename of an event. Often we use the same name for events as Wikipedia does, though sometimes this is clearly not suitable - in these cases, provided you know the year of the event, you can find a list of events from going there, e.g. 2016#Events lists all the events of 2016. -- Robin (talk) 18:03, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Simple tip

Sometimes I add content without supporting references, e.g. if I'm pretty sure but can't find a reference, or don't have time to. In this case, I use Template:cn to mark the major points where I feel a reference is justified. -- Robin (talk) 15:18, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Integrity Initiative/Leak

Congratulations on uploading the last of the Integrity Initiative/Leak documents, Terje, (and on adding the nationalities to the last Bilderbergers). In case you were wondering why the lists (e.g. Integrity_Initiative/Leak/7#Examples) are missing some, I assume it is just lag. Bilderberg/Guests/Nationality currently reports 2896/2962 are known, though I'm pretty sure they're all accounted for. I thought the IfS members were nearly done, but then I found another list. Wikipedia, by contrast, seems to have been working to reduce its information about the leak. It's now down to just 3 sentences. -- Robin (talk) 15:27, 27 January 2020 (UTC)

I've done maybe 90% of the II-files. It took a few months longer than expected! Left out is a fair amount of the invoices and contact lists (most are integrated in other entries anyway) and most of the media/twitter analysis files (esp II 3 Skripal), which have a fiendish amount of graphics and don't add much anyway.

There are signs that II & partner efforts are still more active than ever, with a fresh country report against 'internal enemies' in Norway + stories/editorials that are obviously following leads from above.

Australia has an media campaign directed against China that looks very much like an II effort.

Not to mention the omertà in every Western country on mentioning Wikileaks/Douma... -- Terje (talk) 05:35, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Now just one person away from the complete known IfS staff. Note that they are still hiring. Whether they will really clean up their act and move their deep state business elsewhere is a moot point. -- Robin (talk) 16:42, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

Couple more tips

I just undid your removal of titular logo, since I judge their logo to have the name written clearly enough to not need text next to it on the coverpage. (Currently that's the only use of that parameter). Whether it is readable of course depends on e.g. screen size, so it's not necessarily a clear cut decision.

You've been doing good work with groups and |members -- this is a good way to improve the existing pages too, since the existing members have a link to their group appear in the "Members of" section. The preferred format for names is not to have titles or usually not even middle initials, although for unknown people, it's good to keep all the info we have, so they are useful. When putting in lists of names as you've been, the simple takeaway for names with middle initials of people we have pages for is that if a preview shows them in red (not-linking), then taking the middle initials away should make them link.

As far as images go, I almost always use either "|left" or "|right", since then the text flows around it, instead of having white space either side around the image. -- Robin (talk) 16:42, 21 February 2020 (UTC)

I took away "titular logo" because when you previously clicked on Atlantik-Brücke on the main new edits page, it only opened a new page with the image jpg file, not the Wiki-entry itself.

Aha. I just checked that and I see the problem. Very likely due to the foreign character, since I haven't detected it before. I'll look into it. -- Robin (talk) 12:30, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

The lists are a great tool to capture surprising and not-so-surprising connections that otherwise wouldn't be seen, spook-connections and other. And eventually they will show that certain people are members of almost everything. Henry Kissinger, Carl Bildt, Zbigniew Brzezinski and a few other are front runners.

I leave out Dr., Prof., Amb., etc. If they are left, it is by oversight. Some of the people are nobility, which makes it a bit more ambiguous if their titles should be taken away. And the Yanks normally write Jr. with a comma i.e "Richie Rich, Jr" which I have to remove to make the lists work.Terje (talk)---

That's good practice. -- Robin (talk) 12:30, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Bilderberg postponement

Good find! -- Robin (talk) 12:42, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

You read it first on Wikispooks! Terje (talk) 13:33, 4 April 2020 (UTC)---

Tip for unstubbing pages

The |description parameter is uniquely important to improve the overall site quality, since it is (nearly) the only part of a page which appears on multiple _other_ pages. E.g. The "participants" section of Bilderberg/2019. Because of the interest in Bilderberg2020 increasing, I actually decided that it would be good to add descriptions to each of the 2019 guests. -- Robin (talk) 15:55, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

Use of SMWQ

I've just slightly reorganised the Samuel Huntington‎‎ page. Good work there BTW. I trimmed the "Quote" section, since I prefer the quote to contribute naturally to the text, like in a magazine article. Maybe you were thinking of the "Related quotes" sections, which some pages have, and which is machine-generated.

One of the more important parameters in SMWQ is |subjects, since this allows the quote to appear on multiple pages. See for example Violence#Related_Quotations. The Huntington‎‎ quote is not yet there, but should be there when the software does its thing. -- Robin (talk) 13:26, 15 April 2020 (UTC)

Got it, I prefer it like that too. While we are one the subject of metadata:

I've never seen it on Wikispooks, can I add corporations etc. as 'members' of groups, f.ex British Petroleum as a member of Franco-British Colloque ? Terje (talk) 13:38, 15 April 2020 (UTC)---

Yes. There are actually lots more possibilities than we have explored here. One reason, apart from laziness, that I've avoided giving you tight instructions on how to use the SMW framework is that this way you keep innovating and coming up with new things I hadn't thought of :-) -- Robin (talk) 06:34, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Maybe it would be better to have them in a special category 'sponsors', 'backers' 'purse-holders' or 'financiers'. This would be particularly relevant for NGOs, which get $$$ from George Soros or USAID, NED etc. Terje (talk) 06:56, 16 April 2020 (UTC)---

"Sponsors" is ambiguous

I just noticed that the word "sponsors" is unfortunately ambiguous. i.e.

• A "sponsors" [gives to]: B, C, D...
• B's "sponsors" [receives from]: A....

So the wording needs adjustment. "Funding" has a similar verb/noun ambiguity of roles. Maybe "Financing:" and "Financed by:"? What do you think? -- Robin (talk) 12:17, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Try "Financing" and "Financed by", I can't think of any particular drawbacks and it is reasonably intuitive. Again, only do so if it isn't too much work! Terje (talk) 13:10, 23 April 2020 (UTC)---

Use of "constitutes"

The aim of |constitutes is to put like with like, so it is necessary to be somewhat generic, so that items match with each other. I there change "Dutch prize committee for most successful propaganda" into just "awards committee", since this is more likely to match something else -- although it doesn't yet have its own page. I shoifted the original |constitutes into description, where specificity is good. -- Robin (talk) 06:54, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Tip for circumventing Dutch (and other) paywalls

If you want to cite sources in Dutch (as I've seen you do sometimes) most regular Dutch surfers walk into the Dutch paywalls for older articles on the main newspapers (usually 7 days after publication) (and some American too nowadays apart from the geo-block) I use this on google chrome; https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

Maybe you already use this and this is just a waste of bytes, but it has been vital to me, so I thought why not share this. Hope it can help you, thx for your work on the Dutch pages! Jun (talk) 15:09, 6 May 2020 (UTC) Jun. EDIT; PS: Firefox version; https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox

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Thanks, that tool is very handy! I try to boycott MSM, but still use them for references.

I will look at the Dutch pages as you make them, and give my input when I have something. (NB! I don't always discover all of them, as new edits can disappear among all the other new ones.) Terje (talk) 11:59, 7 May 2020 (UTC)---

Members lists

Firstly, let me say how much I appreciate your adding new groups and members lists - it's a very valuable addition to the site. Because of the SMW basis of the site, data entered here simultaneously works on 2 levels:

1. What is visible to the user
2. The machine readable data, used to auto-fill the SMWDocs sections and infoboxes

For the second of these, it's important to put data in predictable places, i.e. Use of /Members would confuse the SMW, even if it might be better for the readership. I understand your concern about making the pages look good, so let's discuss ideas of what might be an improvement. The current system was set up with groups like Le Cercle in mind, where all members are of importance. This has only a few hundred known members, rather than thousands. The current approach probably won't scale well for really big groups. One idea, for example, could be to initially hide the members, but have a button to show them if the user requests it. I'm not sure how easy that would be to implement. I welcome your thoughts on how to improve display of group membership. -- Robin (talk) 10:22, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

I'm not sure how easy it is to implement, but if members that have a separate biography gets priority ('names in blue'), it will cover most relevant persons. Another category that definitely should be shown is people who are members of multiple groups but still don't have a separate entry - this would indicate that they are people of interest. Hopefully this would be automatically updated.

As people move up the greasy pole and/or is found worthy of a Wikispooks biography, they would be added to the visible names. For example, with Clade X, only Margaret Hamburg,Jamie Gorelick and Tom Daschle have separate biographies for now. But John Bellinger a member of multiple groups (Ditchley/US, British-American Project and Council on Foreign Relations/Members) and hence is possibly an important person and it would add to Clade X if he was shown.

Council on Foreign Relations is a mammoth with 5000+ names, and such lists might require a separate policy. I had to split it in 3 parts, since Wikispooks wouldn't let me list them in one entry.

There will be a similar but more concentrated problem with 'sponsor of' - a handful mega-organizations - Open Society, NED, Bill & Melinda Gates sponsor a lot of things.

PS I tried to use 'financing' in the metadata, but it doesn't seem to work. 'Sponsor of' works, so I have been using it a few times. Which one should I stick to? Terje (talk) 11:46, 15 May 2020 (UTC)---

While on the topic: especially when merging long member lists from multiple sources, it can be hard to weed out duplicates - maybe a computer script could do this? Terje (talk) 02:01, 16 May 2020 (UTC)---

That's not a bad idea. I used a simple word processor and "sort" to trim the duplicates last time. Slightly long winded, but the data almost always needs a manual cleanup anyway. Agreed though, with huge long lists, it would be a good help. Shouldn't be that hard to program. The putting known members first, ditto. I agree, this would improve usability. Re: financing, use "sponsor of". -- Robin (talk) 14:31, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

Good work with Monsignor Brunello

I know how hard it can be to find stuff about members of Le Cercle. Well done on Monsignor Brunello! -- Robin (talk) 16:38, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Originally I just wanted to see if I could dig up his first name, but one thing led to another. There might be more on him later! Terje (talk) 04:45, 10 July 2020 (UTC)---

Circular Traffic

Thanks for your work these days. Would you be willing to use more links and referrals in your articles? So that visitors on the site are more inclined to read more articles than just the page they land on. Some articles like the blowback have less blue links than paragraphs. It doesn't have to change your writing style, I've edited the blowback article not removing any word giving an example. Please review it. Jun (talk) 11:31, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

I'll certainly take note of it, but the problem is normally to decide which word it is worth bracketing; in the Blowback entry, 'political','military' and 'weapon' is good, while 'incompetence' and 'anti-Western' have no entry!☺

Email

Please Email me ASAP. -- Robin (talk) 14:08, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

I have emailed you just now.Terje (talk) 22:27, 5 February 2021 (UTC)---

Wish for a 2020 End of Year Summary

Regarding some suggestions for that summary, Robin provided them here; Wikispooks:News, I don't know if you saw it. There are more stats I could add for us contributors using the Pwiki stats, but that would take some time, as I would need to sort every page manually to whoever made it as far as my knowledge goes. But it is in fact on a long list of to do for me as well, don't worry about that. Hope this anwers your question for now. Thanks for your hard work on the Universities as well! Jun (talk)

Youtube

Greetings Terje, in case you found any more videos that have been scrubbed off youtube, please report them on the talk page like with Fort Hood or my own talk page if you bulk-request them. As this appears to be a new trick, following the "heavy-traffic"-spikes cuasing 404s of last months. --Jun (talk) 06:30, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

New terms

Greeting Terje,

Just copying this message here; In case you're gonna add those several new network terms as constitutes, Would you be willing to provide a few short examples of mandatary hallmarks in your view for the several networks constitutes (on the page or in the lede perhaps)? As it seems as how I've read it, a lot of networks could fall under those terms? Please don't forget it in case you go through, it will help the many concepts that don't get a lot of circular traffic. --Jun (talk) 02:38, 13 June 2021 (UTC)

Ref tidying

I've been mulling this one over for a while, and have all but given up on changing the content model, which I suspect is the proper way to do it (tried many times but always hit a roadblock i.e. an indecipherable error message I can find no references to). Instead, I've just tried a quick and dirty approach, which is to replace Template:Cite news with something far more simple-minded, i.e. something that just repeats the URL. If this works, it will only work on the references which use this template (but the approach should be repeatable for other such templates). -- Robin (talk) 13:10, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

Be careful you don't introduce new errors ☺. With a few more sessions from time to time, I can reduce them manually to almost zero. I've already done 1/3 today (350 out of 1050). These TemplateStyles errors are the biggest visual flaw to the site.

[User:terje]] (talk) 13:31, 6 August 2021 (UTC)--

Question

I remember you making some reference to vaccine shedding somewhere. Can't find it, am I wrong? Or do you remember what that could have been? Thanks. -- Sunvalley (talk) 00:37, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

I had to churn on it a bit to remember where it was mentioned. It is under Self-spreading vaccine!

Terje (talk) 05:21, 19 January 2022 (UTC)---

Did not see/find that, page seems not indexed (or is excluded) from google, bing for whatever reason does a better job. Thanks again. -- Sunvalley (talk) 17:31, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi Terje, I see you are online right now. Can you please check my recent addition to the R Malone article? I am out for a few days again. Thanks. -- Sunvalley (talk) 03:01, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Will do. There is something icky about that lawsuit.

Terje (talk) 03:18, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Check-up

user:Terje Kudos to the work ethic. Just a reminder that your health is most important, and sometimes I really wonder if you know you can also take a week off from WS. No offence, just that you are so active here. --Jun (talk) 06:00, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Automation

IIRC, this live chart should you help you, it shows the amount of pages per SWMObject template, and when clicking on them, shows the amount of stubs per section.

	Has usageCount
Concept	2,585
Decade	30
Document	2,265
Employment	2,554
Event	1,358
Group	4,913
Person	13,536
Place	374
Property	265
Publication	258
Quotation	2,124
Video	64
Website	405
Year	344

Hope this helps you with your great stub crushing quest. --Jun (talk) 16:27, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for that chart. BTW, business is now back to usual. If there is any other communication on other pages during the last few weeks, I probably missed it. Terje (talk) 20:49, 21 June 2022 (UTC)---

You should rate your Tucker Carlson page, it has greatly unknown info. I could use it on Reddit for more traffic. Jun (talk) 11:37, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

YT Main page

The reason the YT enbedded content looked that messy it because you edited and added new sections without formatting the youtube template in correct height and width. ;-) Just a PS: --Jun (talk) 10:36, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Semantic web templates

I applaud your energy in using Template:KnownParticipants, but will probably undo your recent additions; the plan is, as usual, to go for low maintenance, i.e. to fold it into Template:SMWDocs, so it appears by SMW magic everywhere it would be helpful without needing to add it anywhere. The question is, which places should it appear? I first got the idea for the WEF/AGMs. It's not needed for Bilderberg meetings, since they are all known. How to specify which pages it's helpful for, in terms of #participants, #known ones, #unknown ones? -- Robin (talk) 15:18, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Looking through the 1200 events, there are actually only a handful that need this one, almost exclusively Brussels Forum and WEF meetings. It is a good tool to sieve through similar large meetings, but I would suggest it be added manually to avoid it messing up the Bilderbergs.

It would be more useful for groups, where there must be maybe a thousand where this could save a lot repetitive work, for example American Council on Germany/Young Leaders/1985 would give 3 Known Participants; Brookings Institution 50, and Council on Foreign Relations/Members 2 several hundred, and so on. - Some exceptions: Political party already has members; nation state has citizens; university,military academy and school, alumni.

Terje (talk) 22:33, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Remembering SMW property names

One was to remember that |death_cause is for cause of death is to remember it as part of a trio of death related properties:- together with |death_date, |death_place. Property:Victim_of was added later, and does not necessarily have to do with death, although assassination, murder & premature death are three of the most common values. -- Robin (talk) 14:20, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Pause until September

It's vacation time now. I will have very limited internet access, and won't be adding anything of substance until early September☺ I've also put the Telegram channel on hold until then. Terje (talk)

Have fun, see you around. -- Sunvalley (talk) 21:06, 24 July 2023 (UTC)

I'm back again. I have not checked Wikispooks since late July, so if there are any developments the last months, let me know. I'm also interested in reading any new article additions you are happy with.

Terje (talk) 08:53, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Requested YT video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJR7ECZHMlg

Let me know if you have other videos or if this one gets banned. Keep up the good work, Jun. Jun (talk) 09:42, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Congratz on the 1000 Telegram users

As per Title. And I know it's 1000....-3 but, I'll promote in on Twitter and Reddit to reach it this week. Robin btw didn't know you had a telegram channel, so sorry for the non-promotion from our part, our FB got shut down when a associate of him ran it. Jun, Administrator. (talk) 23:23, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Telegram is on a bit of a down at the moment, it has lost a fair amount of users after the Covid censorship eased. Opposition is now herded towards Twitter. Maybe the enforcement of the EU/Censorship laws will increase its popularity again.

Terje (talk) 05:37, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

British royal family

Does it make sense to sort Royalty like with Belgian nobility? So I would make them British nobility and create that article .. or just revert back? -- Sunvalley (talk) 02:41, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

"Nobility" is one step down the ladder from "royalty". Also, nobility aren't necessarily related. There would be a point making "constitutes=British nobility" for the old aristocratic families, but there are quite a lot of them spread all over Wikispooks.

The British royal family fits better as "constitutes" than "member_of=", as it is sort of an occupation. I'll change the members to it.

Terje (talk) 05:40, 2 February 2024 (UTC)---

Vacations

While the two other Admins are on vacations and I was since I did the new years review I'm just checking if you're OK, have suggestions or questions. Just respond here if so, or not if you don't! Also a big thanks you from me and Robin for carrying us since the second week of January mostly alone, admin-wise. Btw, what did you think of the Front page layout during the new-years-week. Good, bad? Make it as long or short as you want. Signed; Jun, Administrator. (talk) 23:25, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Jun, Administrator. (talk) 23:25, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi Jun! Hope you had a good time off. Regarding the alternative front page: The template is already there. It allows for more highlights on the front page, which is good. The way I figure it, the two front pages can be swapped back and forth from time to time, say every few months.Terje (talk) 22:51, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. So, if I understood correctly, the newer template (the one last used in the new years week) and current template should rotate from time to time seems like a plan. If not correct me. Sounds like a plan. I'll really the request to Robin along with my wikimedia extensions request. We'll still both be away from times to time with some work obligations, but feel free tag me on my page. As I'll prob do bulk sessions between longer breaks. Jun, Administrator. (talk) 13:47, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Vacation

I'll be off on vacation for a few weeks, and will be mostly offline. I'll check in on the site from time to time. Terje (talk) 00:20, 21 July 2024 (UTC)