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Liebe Festgemeinde!

Strange things happen, have always happened, but currently appear stranger and more in the open – so to say.
One such interesting source of strange things is the deletionpedia. The deletionpedia pours down strange things on you – out of the sudden like monsoon rain. This fortean side of the world sheds light of hidden factors of our society and on those facets that, for which reason ever, are not wanted by the so called „community“ to be included into common knowledge. These things are seemingly too open for the open source. To cut it short: The deletionpedia is an archive featuring snapshots of over 63.000 pages that have been so far deleted from the English Wikipedia alone. Unlike the Wikipedia and due to the fact that they represent snap shots, they cannot be edited anymore. These sites are not older versions of an actual site, but represent totally deleted topics. Interestingly enough, you get a date of deletion and the official reason (like “spam”, “irrelevance”, etc.) of the extermination from the public lexicon (Wikipedia) – which is fun to read and sometimes sheds a light on the mechanisms how self-policing and self-censorship nowadays works and established itself in society.

The Web Bot Project – An Example

The Web Bot Project essentially is, what I call, a ‘hot thing’. It had been deleted from the English Wikipedia on 26.8.2008 because „…its tone was too promotional for an encyclopedic entry“. Well, according to that reason we should go and from time to time delete all politicians, soccer-clubs and corporations from wikipedia – instead of changing their entry-text. For those who don‘t know how Wikipedia works: Usually a raw-text is put forth by someone and then subsequently others join onto the subject, discuss it in the background and/or edit the entered new subject on the Wikipedia frontside. It is an essential characteristics of WIkipedia that most articles start on a very un-professional level and are consequently refined, re-tuned, scientifically backed by citations, etc. To delete a subject because its present text is not meeting the (which) standards is at least dubious. After being popular and on the web for almost 10 years the wikipedia article about the Web Bot Project (WBP) was created in 2008 and already deleted on the same day by „TexasAndroid“ who says from himself: „I’m no great author of Wiki pages, but I’m good at cleaning up other people’s messes“. Well, that‘s necessary too sometimes…

Mining The Internet

Here is the (promotional?) definition of the WBP from the now deleted wikipedia site:

“The Web Bot Project is an internet technology developed in the 1990′s to assist in making stock market predictions. Very similar to a search engine, the system uses spiders to search the internet looking for predetermined keywords which are sent back to the host and filtered to decipher their meaning. The idea behind the project is that it would tap into the collective unconscious from the users on the internet, going one step further than just listening to what internet users are saying. Eventually in 2001 the Web Bot users found that their technology was not only accurately predicting the stock market, it had also been predicting global events quite accurately as well.“

In June 2001 the WBP predicted „a life altering event which would change the world and how we live in America“ within the next 60-90 days. At least after 9/11 the WBP gained publicity and thus entered controversy.
Now we have entered unsecure realms like the Bible-Code and the fuzzy world of Dan Brown. However, ,tata pavaka, tata fuma‘ – ,where there is smoke, there is fire too‘. The WBP definitely has reached many people by now and already had in 2008 when it was deleted. I myself heard from it through several sources and it was mentioned in a History Channel documentary (Doomsday 2012: The End of Days – Hopi and Web Bots) which seems to have been aired before 2nd July 2008. At least the latter should have proved the relevance of the WBP – at least as a media phenomenon.

The Hopi & Other Eery Stuff

As other ancient American civilizations and different indigenous tribes, the Hopi adhere to the theory that there have several worlds been created and destroyed so far. According to them we live in the 4th of these worlds and it will come to an end at a time when the seas will start to rise, when the sun will heat up and when a (strange) spiderweb will criss-cross the surface of the earth…
The Hopi prophecies and doctrines of World Ages and huge cycles of time are just one of many worldwide doctrines on the very same topic. The WBP reads them and integrates them to a certain extent, no doubt. But, had their creators been so deceived by their own results, that they adhere to a mere self fulfilling prophecy – a prophecy that similarly to their topics goes in circles? Regarding the relatively young WBP, I am not able to fully judge its predictions yet – but my nose tells me that it has some value and fits together with other sources. Nevertheless, you can reach some conclusions for yourself by listening to one or more parts of the following interview with co-founder and programmer of the WBP, Cliff High, on the upcoming events, what they read in the collective web-subconsciousness and why time and its unfolding might be very different from what we currently believe.