Hoi,
Given that you have probably a lot more edits than the impersonator, you
only have to wait for Brion to roll out single login. You will get to use
this profile on the strength of having more edits. This week Brion said he
hoped to have SUL real soon now. :)
Thanks,
GerardM
On 3/17/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023(a)comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Currently, the only thing that is available to you in response is to have
> the accounts blocked. On sites where usurpation is allowed, I recommend
> having those accounts usurped. Unfortunately I believe that usurpations
> are
> only being used on the English Wikipedia. I recommend that you contact
> this
> person and ask him to hand the accounts over to you, in which case you can
> then change the passwords and the e-mail addresses. This seems the best
> course of action.
>
> The user is not being very... nice, but I think a ban is a little over the
> top. (Even though what he did was quite rude and looks purposeful.)
> However, if he does it again, a ban would be a pretty good solution.
>
> I'm sorry that you had to go through this and hope it gets solved soon. :(
> (However, it looks like it can only be solved currently with "Meteoroid"s
> or
> "Z.E.R.O."s support.)
>
> Cbrown1023
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: foundation-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Oldak Quill
> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 2:48 PM
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Help with impersonation
>
> On 17/03/07, NSLE (Wikipedia) <nsle.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi. I'm user Chacor on the English Wikipedia (formerly NSLE), user NSLE
> at
> > the French Wikipedia, and user NSLE-Chacor at commons. However, this
> morning
> > I was notified that user "Meteoroid" on the English Wikipedia (now "
> Z.E.R.O.")
> > created new "NSLE-Chacor" accounts around wikimedia projects, like at
> meta,
> > and at wikia, and at mediawiki.org (that I know of, there may be more),
> > clearly impersonating me. He knows what he's doing, because
> "NSLE-Chacor"
> is
> > not used anywhere else, and is used only by me (the name comes from
> > "NationStates", an online nation simulation game, as well as my nations
> on
> > that game). There is no possible way anyone would suddenly come up with
> > "NLE-Chacor".
> >
> > The accounts on meta and mediawiki.org have been blocked (by Angela and
> > Titoxd, respectively), while the one at wikia is under investigation
> pending
> > a response from Meteoroid. However I sense a pattern, and there could be
> > more such accounts. However, Interiot's SUL username tool is lagging
> right
> > now, so it does not return any.
> >
> > I do not appreciate being impersonated like this, and it should not be
> > tolerated. Is there any possibility of a wikimedia-wide ban on this
> > character for this impersonation? I'm feeling frustrated and harassed
> right
> > now, that this user has gone out of his way to make me feel so
> > uncomfortable. He even edited my Commons userpage to say "NSLE-Chacor
> > elsewhere is not me", a clear sign he knows what he's doing.
>
> My sympathies: someone used created an account with my username
> (again, obviously intentional) at Welsh Wikipedia and used it to
> vandalise. I'm not sure how this is going to be dealt with when SUL is
> being implemented.
> --
> Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)
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This might sound off-topic; but I had to ask here first before starting
on-wiki discussion in order to create a new official policy on the
Arabic wikipedia. also because the user who is the reason for this
requested no farther conversation with him/her until she/he gets a word
from the foundation about it.
Simply, the issue is a case of advertising using a username, as you all
probably have seen it before.
More detailed: a user of ours in ar.wp have choosen to contribute to the
Arabic wikipedia and a three another wikimedia wikis(as s(he) mentions
in my talk page) under the name of صوت للبتراء, as you can see; this
name is translated as "Vote for Petraa", you can see here the imperative
form in 'Vote' and the advocacy/propaganda of saying Vote for
Petraa..for those of you who might haven't heard; there is currently a
project/event called the new 7 wonders of the world[1], the Petraa is
one of the nominees in this event[2]..I have nothing againest new 7
wonders or what so ever.. but I wondered, "Wikipedia isn't for these
kind of things" and "the users should not use such nicknames or it will
be a good tool for advertising whatever they need" and "Wikipedia isn't
a front to tell people to vote for something" and "it is annoying each
time I take a look at that nickname with its imperative nature" and such
thoughts etc.
I asked the user to simply ask one of our local fellows to change the
name to something else without the ad-sense in it, but s(he) simply told
me that I will have to bring something from the 'foundation' that agrees
to my suggestion.
So, I'm simply asking; is such usernames to be tolerated? and if it
isn't, can you please write something from the 'foundation' as
"User:Vote for Petraa" or "صوت للبتراء" says to say that? and if it is
really tolerated(it would seem strange though), would a consensus on
ar.wp of the active editors be sufficient to activate a policy so that
users will use non-advertising titles etc. in their nicknames/usernames.
At last, sorry for the long message.
Mohamed Magdy~alnokta
> On sites where usurpation is allowed, I recommend
> having those accounts usurped. Unfortunately I believe that usurpations are
> only being used on the English Wikipedia.
Usurpation is only allowed on accounts with no edits. Vandalism still
counts as edits.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: POY
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:40:47 -0800
From: Strang Joshua P SSgt 354 CS/SCBV
To: Tim Starling
Hello,
I stumbled across the post that my photo won Commons photo of the year
and your comment about had anyone contacted me. No I had not heard a
word but when I found it, I was floored. Thanks for recognizing me and
please pass my thanks on to the Wikimedia Commons. Thanks again!
SSgt Strang
Joshua P. Strang, SSgt, USAF
354 CS/SCBV
Photography NCOIC
[Phone number removed]
"The brave ones shoot the enemy; The crazy ones shoot photos."
I thought this was a nice anecdote shared by one of our Advisory Board members.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Erin McKean
Date: Mar 16, 2007 9:48 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Advisory Board] for those of you who don't read Language Log
from: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004301.html
"What? How?" -- "Wikipedia."
A few days ago, Barbara Partee started up an email discussion about an
effort by Yuri Koryakov to "[get] linguists organized to fill in the
many gaps in linguistics coverage in the Russian-language wikipedia,
both in biographies of linguists and in content articles", suggesting
that a comparable effort for the English-language wikipedia would be a
Good Thing. (If you read Linguist List, you'll probably be hearing more
about this before long.) This morning, Chris Potts contributed an
encouraging anecdote:
In my large intro course yesterday, there was an unfamiliar hand in
the air a lot of the time, and the student's questions and insights were
the best I've had all semester. It was puzzling, because I didn't
recognize him, and he seemed to know much more about syntax than one
would expect. (It was our first official day on the topic.)
After class, he came to the front and introduced himself as a
prospective student, just out of high school. He said linguistics was
his passion in high school. I said, "What? How?" And he replied,
"Wikipedia".
Posted by Mark Liberman at March 13, 2007 08:22 AM
--Erin
--
Peace & Love,
Erik
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the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.
"An old, rigid civilization is reluctantly dying. Something new, open,
free and exciting is waking up." -- Ming the Mechanic
Just a quick note... the Wikimania main page has been redesigned:
http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
It now highlights three important things: registration, scholarships
and the call for participation, all of which are now open. Don't wait
to submit your presentations, apply for a scholarship, and register
for the conference!
* Registration fees will go up for accommodation after Apr. 15, 2007
* The deadline for scholarships is April 1, 2007
* Presentations, panels, posters and workshops may be submitted until
Apr. 30, 2007
Also, please help distribute this information about Wikimania to your
local communities.
best,
Phoebe
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I thought people might be interested in the below.
Tom
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Subject: [BOAI] Open Content Service Launched
Index Data has launched a new service to expose open content
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human-reviewed Internet resources. This service is being offered
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Using standard search protocols such as SRU and Z39.50, system
administrators will be able to make open content part of their
institution's information portals, federated search systems, catalogs
etc. Additional background information and connection instructions
are available at www.indexdata.com/opencontent. The initial open
content being offered consists of the following resources:
Ebooks from the Open Content Alliance
Ebooks from Project Gutenberg
Internet resources selected for review by the Open Directory
Project
OAI-compliant resources, the metadata of which has been
harvested by OAIster
Wikipedia articles
As an example of the benefits of being able to metasearch open
resources, we are making freely available a pre-release demo version
of Index Data's MasterKey search service that has these open content
resources as targets at http://mkey.indexdata.com/demo. MasterKey is
based on pazpar2, a metasearch engine that will be released under the
General Public License within the next month or two.
Comments, questions, or suggestions can be made through our open
content listserv, oclist, available for subscription at
http://lists.indexdata.dk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oclist, or by
writing info(a)indexdata.com.
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On 3/5/07, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org> wrote:
> There are two parts to the suggestion: 1) marking some statements with
> a "verified credentials" tag, and 2) a "policy of gentle (or firm)
> discouragement for people to make claims like those that EssJay made,
> unless they are willing to back them up".
I'm cross-posting this to wikipedia-l and foundation-l, because it may
very well become a Foundation-level issue at some point.
I would support the following:
1) Any user can ask for his or her professional credentials to be verified.
2) Making up professional credentials is prohibited, and may result in
a ban. (This may or may not be covered by existing policy, but judging
from the Essjay case, it is probably not sufficiently clear.) This is
independent of whether or not the user asks for credentials to be
verified. We may investigate claims that are dubious when they are
pointed out to us.
3) Any user trusted on admin level or higher who makes a statement of
credentials on their user page must have them verified through a team
of volunteers designated to this role by the Wikimedia Foundation (we
may want to involve the chapters if this becomes international). The
process of verification could be similar to what Citizendium uses,
i.e.:
a) have an existing, credentialed user vouch for the credentials to be
correct based on personal knowledge,
b) respond to an email associated with a reliable institution, and
point us to a web page of that institution where their credentials are
listed,
c) point to someone associated with a reliable institution we can
contact to verify the credentials.
We may extend this to regular users if it proves to scale well.
4) Users with verified credentials will get a little "Verified
credentials on <date>" marker on their user page, nothing more. This
marker would ideally be independent of the wikitext of the page, and
set in the user table instead.
I am opposed to any marker of edit contributions and such -- users who
care about credentials can look them up, those who do not care should
not be bothered by them in discussions or contributions.
--
Peace & Love,
Erik
DISCLAIMER: This message does not represent an official position of
the Wikimedia Foundation or its Board of Trustees.
"An old, rigid civilization is reluctantly dying. Something new, open,
free and exciting is waking up." -- Ming the Mechanic
Perhaps of interest to those who were talking about this earlier; there's an
evaluation of the UNESCO Community Media Center program out now.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jeremy Hunsinger <jhuns(a)vt.edu>
Date: Mar 15, 2007 7:53 AM
Subject: [Air-l] unesco Community Multimedia Centres programme evaluation
To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org
some of you might be interested in this:
The UNESCO supported "Community Multimedia Centers" are community-
based facilities offering both community radio broadcasting and
telecenter services. Radio broadcasts by local people in local
languages are now possible at low cost due to the development of
small, inexpensive, easy-to-operate broadcast facilities. In Africa
and other regions, where languages are spoken and national broadcast
networks are weak, community radio provides a new and important
medium for communication of news, information, and entertainment. The
radio not only informs, educates and entertains, but it also empowers
the community by giving a strong public voice to the voiceless, and
thus encouraging greater accountability in public affairs.
This UNESCO initiative showing the world the power of CMCs is in its
fifth year of operation, with 39 pilot CMCs established in
communities across Latin America/Caribbean, Africa and South Asia.
Read the recent evaluation of the UNESCO program.
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/22129/11477736959CMC_Evaluation_Final.…
My wife's son, Florian Jerusalem, has been hired by WMG to write Machine
translation support for
the German Language. Florian is from Schaag near the Netherlans border
and is staying with us this year.
Florian is fluent in German, English, and French,
At present, the lexicons are nearing completion for over 500,000 German
words and phrases and a translating
web proxy is also being developed along with Wikipedia support.
Although the German Language has an impressive
Wiki, machine translated versions will be published at WikiGadugi as
well very soon as well. Florian will
be returning to Germany later this year, and will probably try to sync
up with the German Wikipedia
Chapter at some point.
Florian is 20 years old.
Jeff