User talk:Ross.Hedvicek

Stop financially supporting Wikipedia!

I have certainly found it ironic that the English Wikipedia includes an article about the expression "useful idiots" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_Idiots) because it is essentially the status which the founders and management of Wikipedia (located mostly in Tampa, Florida) now have in the eyes of users of most East European language versions of their very own website. Please note that this is not name-calling, but merely a technically accurate description. After all, I am a polite guy.

The Wikipedia, in its English form, was founded under the naive impression that other language versions will be managed under the same civilized rules as the original one. Wrong assumption...

According to my research and various sources (who prefer to remain anonymous) only the English version of the Wikipedia can be described as relatively civilized and unbiased. Unfortunately this is not the case in most local language versions in countries with little or no history of democracy or western civilization. I am unable to read Chinese to verify it, but I am getting second-hand reports that Chinese Wikipedia does not include any historical information about atrocities commited by communists and that all articles must be from the official "Beijing point of view" - thus not NPOV (Neutral Point of View). I can't stop wondering why such a travesty of human decency is being tolerated by and supported with American resources. Seems to me that Google with its "Marxist version of the Google search engine" is not alone in its kissing up to Chinese communists. Well well well...

The situation is very similar in all East European language versions - where I do not need any translators and I can personally confirm it. It is bad on Slovak, Polish and Russian Wikipedias but the situation on the Czech Wikipedia is far and away the worst. In case you are not aware of it, the Czech Republic (a democracy in name only) is ruled by neo-communists - though they offically call themselves "socialists". Czech students, who are the main fodder-contributors to the Czech Wikipedia are saturated to their eyeballs with Marxism. They could not be any redder.

Thus it is only logical that the contents and daily life of the Czech Wikipedia looks and behaves accordingly. The sysops and admins of the Czech Wiki rule with an iron fist and they've created the very first Wiki-tyranny. Dissent or any democratic expression of a different (while still NEUTRAL) opinion is impossible and is immediately punished by extreme blocking (ranging from a few days to nine months) to prevent editing of said or any article. This is only for Wikipedians who do not goose step with the official party line - everybody agrees that vandalism is not to be tolerated anywhere and should be punished accordingly. Wiki-stalking of suspected wiki-dissidents is the rule not the exception and is a part of a Czech Wikipedia sysops basic duties. The Czech Wikipedia has been virtually hijacked by marxist Wiki-terrorists. Best of all, they have nothing to worry about because nobody in Tampa speaks Czech and they can always lie their way out - they have many willing accomplices among Czech students studying in the United States that will cover their backs.

As a result, thousands of articles on Czech history and society are severely biased and twisted to comply with the current political propaganda and prevailing sentiments in society. For example Czechs generally dislike Czech expatriates of the Cold-war era, and so articles about them reflect only one point of view. There are hundreds of examples like this. Discussion of these issues is not allowed and those who object are immediately accused by sysops of "disrupting" and repeatedly blocked until they leave the Wikipedia altogether. Basically, unless the article is about stones or flowers or other scientific things, only the communist and marxist point of view is allowed and only it is considered to be "neutral". All opposing viewpoints are thus banned.

The admins are also using technical means to further their goals: automatically blocking thousands of IP addresses, which are allegedly "proxies" (and they are not) and refusing to install software which would allow transparent reading of Czech words with or without Czech diacritics. That last trick effectively blocks thousands of potential Wiki visitors from abroad, who do not have diacritics on their keyboards - aka those hated Czech expatriates.

If somebody from the Czech Wikipedia attempts to seek remedy or justice at the English Wikipedia or META Wikipedia (there is such a guy, a Czech lawyer named Vit Zvanovec), he is quickly located and a "death squad" of Czech (but English-speaking) sysops from the Czech Wikipedia moves to discredit, dismiss him as a crackpot and neutralize him. In that effort they are getting very effective help from local American "useful idiots" (again, no name-calling, just a technical description) who would patronize, discourage and generally put down the "complainer" - like for example a Wikipedian named Dan, who wrote to Zvanovec as follows at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissions#Desysopping_of_cs:Wikipedista:Egg

"To request the removal of sysop access from another user, please gain consensus on this on your own wiki first. All discussion must be kept on your local wiki." This is not the place to propose a user's desysopping. Please make a request here only after you have obtained consensus among the cs.wikipedia community. ­ Dan"

Seems that "Dan" can not wrap his mind around the fact that any such action on the Czech Wikipedia is not possible, because such person would be immediately blocked (and Zvanovec in fact was) and a Czech "death squad" would quickly show up (as they did) and proclaim Zvanovec a known troublemaker with a history of "disrupting", who should not be taken seriously. Case closed.

It seems that there is no way to get a message through up the chain of command. Tampa is turning a deaf ear. Any such attempt ends up either being ignored or with the really illogical recommendation of placing a complaint with the very people against who you are complaining. Not even Joe Stalin could set up a smarter system.

But maybe there is a way and one which always gets attention and results. Wikipedia depends on donations. Simply stop sending any money to the Wikipedia Foundation, stop your contributions, stop your PayPal accounts - it will get noticed sooner or later. It will also force all the distinguished thinkers at Wikipedia Offices in Tampa, Florida to climb down out of their ivory towers and start dealing with real problems. I have no doubts that the absolute majority of donations to Wikipedia Foundation comes from the U.S., I do not think that contributions from the People's Republic of China or the Czech Republic matter too much. Therefore I believe that American money should not support intellectual brainwashing anywhere (be it in China or Eastern Europe) and that the founders and managers of this great idea - a free Internet encyclopedia - should decisively step in and use all means at their disposal to stop abuse of their own project by some marxist intellectual vermin of world. Situation is bad. And nothing short of immediate, resolute action to make it better is acceptable.

Ross Hedvicek Florida, USA

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I am available to discuss details (in preferably civilized way) and offer more details.

dear mr. hedvicek,

i am not going to comment the situation on cs:wiki, but i would like to assure you that you are really wrong and warn you that some other people than me could take your sentence "Czech students, who are the main fodder-contributors to the Czech Wikipedia are saturated to their eyeballs with Marxism. They could not be any redder." very personaly, even as an unprovoked offence. (i am a student and despite that i would myself classify as a non-communist and even liberal thinking, definitely not marxist. personally i hope that we all will reach time when communism will be as much relict of history as nazism since both are regimes which caused immense injustice, turment and killing.) some people could feel actually as if you would call them fascist or nazi, which i think is even on en:wiki an intollerated offence.

i would you therefore recommend to change your essey accordingly and suggest to call the people using the right names - e.g. if you mind their authoritative and restrictive behavior, why don't call them autocrats or tyrants instead. as i noted in our previous communication if you have such an evidence, that a certain person is or was a marxist or communist feel free to call him accordingly but not without that. believe me, even from my relative short (to yours) life i know that such a misbehaving is not only limited to marxists.

best --PowerCS 14:30, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

During my "long life" (as you noted :-))and hundreds of articles I learned not to write anything I can not prove. I stick with my claim that "Czech students, who are the main fodder-contributors to the Czech Wikipedia are saturated to their eyeballs with Marxism. They could not be any redder." - but I am willing to grant you an exemption. There are exemptions from every rule and I am pleased to see that it is you personally. My abovementioned complaints already reached Wikipedia board and Jim Wales (no decisions so far) and I hope you will support my efforts to make Czech Wikipedia what was meant to be - free and honest Internet encyclopedia. Current tyranny on Czech Wiki is simply unacceptable. If you have any suggestions of your own - please say it. We probably have a common goal. Thank you. Ross.Hedvicek 16:13, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

i guess you could expect what i am going to ask you right now :) i cannot help myself but to ask you for that evidence, that "Czech students, who are the main fodder-contributors to the Czech Wikipedia are saturated to their eyeballs with Marxism." (i left aside the statement about if they can or cannot be redder as a kindness to you as it simply cannot be proven). please don't supply me with the examples of injustice, restrictions and misbehaving (as this is not a patent of marxists) but with a solid evidence of their marxist ideology (and to support your statement you should give more than one example).

i agree that there should be clear and straight rules valid for all including the admins (and politicians, police, judges etc.) but avoiding this principle is again not a patent of marxism but could appear also in other systems where dishonest and evil people appear. therefore let's talk about the problems and how to solve them than about ideology.

concerning the common goal – if that means to work on an advancement towards freedom and knowledge, yes, and therefore we both also work on the wikipedia improvements i guess ...

best --PowerCS 23:38, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't think that Mr. Hedvíček words are exaggeration. -- Vít Zvánovec 19:23, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

i am sorry but it is not a question of what you think, it is a matter of a statement and its evidence. --PowerCS 23:38, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Holy mother! I'm slovak and I'm living in czech republic for a 6 years. All this stuff about marxism is complete nonsense. Please, ignore Mr. Hedvíček, as he shows many times on czech Internet, that he is not sane. -- Peter Krutý

Karl Koecher

I put {{disputed}} tag on the page. The article was added by the most prolific writer on Wikipedia so it is not likely result of long diligent research. (No source for the text was given, actually.)

If you have knowledge of better references please add them and/or edit the article. Since spies intentionally live surrounded with lies please keep in mind that everything should be sourced. TIA Pavel Vozenilek 01:32, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

OK, I will make some changes (with sources) in a few days. I did not do that so far, because I was worried about my efforts going to waste - without your approval. Thank you. Ross.Hedvicek 23:04, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Well, the Czech part of English Wiki had avoided wars, so far. The 1948-89+ history is practically missing (this applies to other periods as well).

The Cibulka lists would deserve article of their own - what the categories mean, how the list evolved, relation between Cibulka's and official list, hwo some peole managed to be removed before the court and so on. Pavel Vozenilek 13:28, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

I will gladly contribute to Cibulka matters, but I would prefer cooperation (and contributions to articles) from you as well, so I am not the sole contributor to article - that should decrease possibility of attacks from Czech Wikipedians (Wikimol, Miraceti, etc.), who as you know hate my guts with a passion. So, I will contribute, but please you do, too. Ross.Hedvicek 14:06, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

• Would it be possible to add pages or chapters that specifically cover Koecher to the Kessler's books section? They all have in excess of 600 pages. Pavel Vozenilek 10:20, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

I think it would be wasted effort - just more stuff for Czech-zealots to delete :-) - if somebody has the book, he can look up the correct pages in the index. Ross.Hedvicek 16:04, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Kojetín/Kojata

Thank you for the answer about the origin of the word Kojetin.

I have never heard about any known son of Samo. Could you please tell me, where in Vlastivědné muzeum in Olomouc I can verify this information, as well as the information about archaeological excavations and Wogastisburg? On some exhibition in this museum?

Thank you again. Jan.Kamenicek 21:32, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

I personally never been in Vlastivedne muzeum in Olomouc (but I was given VHS tape from there, so I am sure it exists), but Vlastivedne muzeum or Komenskeho muzeum (the same thing) in Prerov will be even better bet. It is located inside old Prerov Castle on Horni namesti. Former director of Prerov's museum Gustav Vozda (native of Kojetin) was one of the key sources of information about Samo, Kojata and Wogastisburg links. BTW - I plan to stop contributing to this matter, as I noticed that my usual enemies from Czech Wiki (-jkb- and that bunch) plan to delete my contributions again. Ross.Hedvicek 17:14, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the answer, I will definitely visit the Přerov museum soon.

However, I am afraid that the oral information of a museum director is not enough. Wikipedia requires all information to be based on sources such as "archeological artifacts; film, video or photographs; historical documents such as a diary, census, transcript of a public hearing, trial, or interview; tabulated results of surveys or questionnaires, records of laboratory assays or observations; records of field observations", otherwise it is considered to be "original research" which is not allowed here. So, if we want to keep the information, we have to find a more acceptable source. Jan.Kamenicek 20:01, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

It is not "oral" - you will find enough paper there with printed info. :-)Ross.Hedvicek 21:26, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I asked an expert on archaeology from the Přerov museum, and here is his answer.

"Kojetín své jméno mohl opravdu získat v raném, nebo na počátku vrcholného středověku po nám neznámém Kojatovi, avšak spojovat ho se Sámovým potomkem je úplný nesmysl, neboť samozřejmě neznáme jméno žádného jeho syna, ani dcery, ač dle franské kroniky tzv. Fredegara měl údajně potomků se svými 12 ženami velké množství. Žádné archeologické důkazy v Kojetíně či okolí pro to rozhodně nesvědčí. Nejstarší slovanské nálezy v Kojetíně datujeme od 9. století výše, žádné slovanské hradisko z této doby zde neznáme. Polohu Wogastisburgu (nebyl centrálním hradištěm, to se nacházelo snad na některém prokázaném předvelkomoravském opevnění v Pomoraví - Olomouc-Povel či Mikulčice, nebo na budoucím Nitransku), kde se odehrála bitva r. 631/632 rovněž bezpečně neznáme, dle písemných pramenů se nacházel na hranicích Sámem ovládaného území. Hledán byl již na desítkách či stovkách lokalit českými i moravskými obrozenci od poč. 19. století (odtud zřejmě pramení vámi zmiňovaná domněnka), ovšem zcela neúspěšně, jistou naději v poslední době skýtá s ohledem na nálezy a geografickou polohu lokalita na vrchu Rubín u Podbořan v SZ Čechách, popř. některé polohy v německé Pomohanní. V případě dalšího zájmu odkazuji na velmi podrobné aktuální informace v dobře dostupné literatuře: Měřínský, Z. 2002: České země od příchodu Slovanů po Velkou Moravu I., nakl. Libri, Praha, s.191-.

S pozdravem

A. Drechsler, Muzeum Komenského v Přerově, p.o., archeol. pracoviště"

To sum it up in English, the name of Kojetín is probably derived from an old Czech name Kojata who, however, definitely was not Sámo's son. The names of Sámo's sons are unknown and there is no evidence that any of them (or Sámo himself) had anything to do with this town. The oldest archaeological findings of Slavic origin are dated back to the 9th century, and so they cannot say anything about Sámo's Empire. Wogastisburg should be searched on the edge of the empire, while Kojetín is located too inside. Since the 19th century many theories on its location on many places have appeared, but most of them is not considered valid by historians nowadays.

Therefore I think that the information about the connection of Kojetín and Sámo's Empire should be removed because of the lack of support by reliable sources.

Jan.Kamenicek 21:18, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Do as you wish. Ross.Hedvicek 17:30, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Floods in Kroměříž

In the article on Kroměříž Bishop's Palace you have changed the information about floods in 2006 to the floods in 2002. But I am not sure, whether this year is more correct than the previous one. I know, that floods struck Kroměříž in 1997 [1], but I have not found any info about damages in 2002 (the year, when towns and villages on the Elbe, the Vltava and the Dyje rivers, but not the Morava River, suffered most). May I correct the year? Jan.Kamenicek 18:55, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

My mistake - you are right :-) - Correct it, please. Ross.Hedvicek 19:26, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Chinese Wikipedia

You may wish to reconsider the reliability of your sources. The Chinese Wikipedia has been banned by the government in mainland China since late last year. It's sometimes possible to read it there, but very difficult to edit. I think most of the contributors to zh.wikipedia come from Taiwan and Hong Kong, so it is much more likely to reflect the biases of those places, rather than of Beijing.—Nat Krause^(Talk!) 17:57, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. I am getting contradicting feedback on that, usually depending on which side the writer in question is. Ross.Hedvicek 21:14, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Chapter/board

1) What do you think of the relationship ? 2) Do you see the relation as a federation type or a branch type ? (without or with legal ties). 3) Do you think that chapters should have an authorization to use brand name and logo for deals (such as a DVD publishing) or should the Foundation handle this from a legal perspective ? 4)What is your position in term of membership (should the Foundation have members or not ?). Anthere 5) PS: would you mind discussing these topics on meta with all editors rather than on the english wikipedia only ? 6) RePS : have you ever discussed Foundation matter with board members other than Jimbo ?

1) Not sure about question - can you re-phrase it?

2) Definitely federation.

3) It should be handled by the Foundation.

4) Yes it should.

5) I will discuss it everywhere I will be invited to.

6) Yes, I did. I thought it was not illegal.

Ross.Hedvicek 17:33, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Board election comment

Hi there. I've just read your article about the Czech Wikipedia. While I can't personally confirm anything you say, it has long been a general concern of mine that the Wikipedia servers in Tampa, Florida, include stuff that the WMF board does not understand (ie. stuff in foreign languages). I thought to myself one day: people could be saying anything on those foreign language Wikipedias! Even if you are not successful in the election, I hope you will continue campaigning on this issue. Thanks. Carcharoth 13:45, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Nicest comment of the day! Thank you. I will. Ross.Hedvicek 14:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Comment

I don't like you! You are enemy of our great leader Jerry Paroubek and thus you are enemy of our bright future! Shame on you! - Darwinek 20:45, 4 February 2007 (UTC)