[Foundation-l] Bunners at the bottom of every page

[Philippe Beaudette]

How about we NOT desysop him until/unless he tries to revert the changes and 
only then after deliberate contact from the Foundation?  I don't like that 
prerogative... ie, "we know what you're GOING to do, so we'll desysop you to 
prevent it".

Philippe

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From: "Elisabeth Anderl" <n9502784 at students.meduniwien.ac.at>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 8:08 AM
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Bunners at the bottom of every page

> Dear Delphine, dear all,
> due to his reactions and disconcerting statements I very much doubt that
> he would not revert such action immediately.
>
> I propose to
> *desysop him now (he can ask the community for getting back sysop on
> ru.books)
> *make a native or >ru-3 speaker temp-sysop to restore the banners
> (MaxSem maybe?)
> *not granting bureaucratship on ru.books for at least a year
>
> Kind regards,
> Elisabeth Anderl (aka spacebirdy)
>
> Delphine Ménard a écrit :
>> On Jan 6, 2008 1:45 PM, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 6, 2008 8:57 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://ru.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?diff=25853
>>>>
>>>> Translation: "Last week there was a sharp increase in activities of 
>>>> anon idiots,
>>>> foreigners (without the knowledge of Russian or with a bad grasp of
>>>> it), and users AlexSmotrov (signs as AlexSm) and Putnik. I hope it's
>>>> just a coincidence, otherwise I'll need to track down possible
>>>> connections between these users and some others. --Ramir 10:47, 5
>>>> January 2008 (UTC)"
>>>>
>>>> This is WAY off the limits of civil behaviour we are accustomed to
>>>> expect from any constructive user, especially from a sysop.
>>>>
>>> As well as the point mentioned by MaxSem, I would like also to argue
>>> the matter if a WMF-owned wiki should carry wmf logo and a link to its
>>> official website where people can find its contact point by email, fax
>>> and phone is not a language issue as the user Ramir suggested, and
>>> raising the issue around language barrier in that manner is highly to
>>> be discouraged on our project.
>>>
>>
>>
>> I am sorry to be so blunt, but this is the 35th message on this
>> thread, and apart from Elisabeth unfortunately aborted attempts, there
>> has been nothing done on the matter.
>>
>> Regardless of civility, wikilove and all other things, and keeping in
>> mind that I am ok with the fact that people may want to "customize"
>> their projects' css, I don't see why we're even discussing this
>> particular "customization".
>>
>> Wikibooks is a Wikimedia project, powered by Mediawiki and there's
>> nothing else to it. These mentions have to come back, there's no
>> discussion to be had.
>>
>> Had I the powers to make myself an admin on that wiki, I would simply
>> restore this and be done with it, thing is, I can't. If Ramir wants a
>> policy, well, let's make this a precedent and hence a policy. The fact
>> that Wikimedia hosted projects are Wikimedia hosted projects and
>> powered by Mediawiki is a fact, not something up for vote or
>> consensus, one man's or many people's appreciation. Please, make me an
>> admin on that wiki and I'll do the stuff.
>>
>> Geez.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Delphine
>>
>
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