From: Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Dealing with interwiki disruption
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Thursday, May 8, 2008, 3:09 AM
On Thursday 08 May 2008 06:11:31 Aphaia wrote:
Thanks for your information but it doesn't
sound
an "interwiki" thing
at all. It sounds rather trwiki internal issue
and
that's all.
And I would add using stewards as deus ex machina to
judge community
issues is a horrible idea, at least for me.
Trwiki, in
this case,
would be better to settle their own arbcom; again
it
doesn't look like
"interwiki" things.
This was and interwiki issue because crosswiki CU action
was needed (including
CU action at tr.wp by steward because of limited amount of
time and long CU
procedure at tr.wp).
BTW, Turkic languages are generally mutually
understandable; especially
Turkish and Azerbaijani. And projects in Turkic languages
projects are good
example for possible crosswiki block by default: a person
which showed
disruptive behavior at one of those projects will be
disruptive on all other
from that language group.
I would also like to see some wikis to implement long term
blocks decided by
en.wp ArbCom (maybe by other ArbComs, too; but I am
introduced only in en.wp
ArbCom work). While en.wp ArbCom decisions related to
desysoping or operative
decisions for some set of articles or similar may be
questionable -- I don't
have any doubt about their decisions about long term
blocks. And it would
make dealing with projects disruption easier.
There have already been several people in this thread from English non-WP wikis who have
said they do not want to implement blocks/bans from en.WP and they have given actual
examples showing they would lose valuable contributers. As I haven't said so before
let me add my voice to say that I do not think people blocked on en.WP are inherently
problems at en.WS. Why are you pushing this?
Birgitte SB
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