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1. Re: Management of this mailing list (Erkan Yilmaz)<br>
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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:57:55 +0200<br>
From: Erkan Yilmaz <<a href="mailto:erkan77@gmail.com">erkan77@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: Abd ulRahman Lomax <<a href="mailto:abdlomax@yahoo.com">abdlomax@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Cc: Mailing list for Wikiversity <<a href="mailto:wikiversity-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikiversity-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [Wikiversity-l] Management of this mailing list<br>
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Hi Abd,<br>
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since you can not edit:<br>
I've posted a request in the colloquium:<br>
<a href="http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Colloquium#WV:_Mailing_list_problem" target="_blank">http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Colloquium#WV:_Mailing_list_problem</a><br>
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Erkan<br>
P.S. God save all people who survive<br>
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On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Abd ulRahman Lomax <<a href="mailto:abdlomax@yahoo.com">abdlomax@yahoo.com</a>>wrote:<br>
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> Well, Cormaggio has not edited Wikipedia for more than a year.<br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Cormaggio&action=view" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Cormaggio&action=view</a><br>
><br>
> He has not edited Wikiversity for almost two years.<br>
> <a href="http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cormaggio" target="_blank">http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cormaggio</a>.<br>
><br>
> Cormaggio has been inactive everywhere in the WMF, at least through this<br>
> unified log-in.<br>
><br>
> Sebmol is listed as a manager of this list as well. He has not edited<br>
> Wikiversity since March 2011, when he noted he was inactive and was willing<br>
> to be removed as a bureaucrat.<br>
> <a href="http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiversity:Community_Review/Abd&diff=prev&oldid=715970" target="_blank">http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiversity:Community_Review/Abd&diff=prev&oldid=715970</a><br>
> Sebmol has been active on de. wikipedia, this year. Not much.<br>
><br>
> It's obvious. We don't have an active list moderator. The complaining<br>
> account is indeed listed as a member receiving the digest.<br>
><br>
> If we get another echo from Harry, I'm going to take an action that might<br>
> resolve the problem for him. I'm going to request a password restoration<br>
> message in his name. If he responds to it, as he has to other messages, we<br>
> might be able to fix this for him. Unorthodox, yes, but it will not do any<br>
> actual harm to him, since he wants to be unsubscribed to all WMF lists,<br>
> apparently. It risks revealing his password. Note that anyone could do this<br>
> for any of us.... that's how the listserve works. I'm not using any special<br>
> privilege. The password is mailed to the subscription address, and if the<br>
> user responds to mails without looking at them, he's in danger anyway.<br>
><br>
> Of course, if he starts paying attention, he can indeed fix this himself,<br>
> the listserv seems to be working normally.<br>
><br>
> I already requested unsubscription in his name. If he follows the<br>
> instructions in that mail, he'll be unsubscribed and we won't hear from him<br>
> again.<br>
><br>
> Meanwhile, the lack of list administration is a possible problem, this<br>
> particular manifestation is relatively minor. We are probably losing<br>
> subscribers over this, but only a list manager can tell, if they can access<br>
> the logs.<br>
><br>
> I'd act to fix this, on-wiki, but ... I 'm still blocked from almost a<br>
> year ago, the unblock template on my Talk page has no response, in spite of<br>
> some request from the community, ignored. WV is, in many respects, dead.<br>
> Such community as still exists stopped paying attention to central<br>
> administrative matters, and so the technocrats rule, but they also lose<br>
> interest, so in some areas, there is nobody ruling or acting. I basically<br>
> gave up, given lack of purposeful community response supporting what I was<br>
> doing. A majority isn't enough! When there is a lack of consensus on<br>
> specific actions, admins have free reign, and policy doesn't matter. I was<br>
> blocked for defending long-standing community policy on blocking. I'd just<br>
> been desysopped outside of policy, as an "emergency" on meta. The emergency<br>
> was that I'd acted, according to policy, reversing after discussion (once,<br>
> not wheel-warring) a block of another user made by the 'crat who then<br>
> requested the desysop, and, when a user changed the policy abusively, I<br>
> requested custodian attention and was blocked for not other offense than<br>
> civilly requesting attention.<br>
><br>
> And the block proved that the policy wasn't worth the paper it wasn't<br>
> written on. The real policy: a 'crat can do whatever he likes, can block<br>
> anyone he doesn't like. No consequences, and no appeal is of any use. And<br>
> the 'crat doesn't need to be, at all, an active WV user, he can just pop in<br>
> whenever.<br>
><br>
> I don't know where requests to add moderators are handled (meta?).<br>
><br>
> *From:* Erkan Yilmaz <<a href="mailto:erkan77@gmail.com">erkan77@gmail.com</a>><br>
> *To:* Abd ulRahman Lomax <<a href="mailto:abdlomax@yahoo.com">abdlomax@yahoo.com</a>>; Mailing list for<br>
> Wikiversity <<a href="mailto:wikiversity-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikiversity-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>><br>
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 30, 2012 1:22 PM<br>
> *Subject:* Re: [Wikiversity-l] Management of this mailing list<br>
><br>
> Harry had this request/game some time ago, where I tried to help him<br>
> not sure why he could not succeed<br>
><br>
> afaik: Cormac is mod of the mailing list, he should be able to do<br>
> something about this<br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cormaggio" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cormaggio</a><br>
><br>
> Erkan<br>
><br>
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Abd ulRahman Lomax <<a href="mailto:abdlomax@yahoo.com">abdlomax@yahoo.com</a>>wrote:<br>
><br>
> The sequence reveals that no moderator is both monitoring this list and<br>
> willing to respond to the request, and possibly the listserver is not<br>
> working properly.<br>
><br>
> Yes, the user should be able to handle his own unsubscription and is being<br>
> obtuse, repeating a message, insistently, to people who can't do anything<br>
> about the situation, and perhaps not following instructions that come with<br>
> every mail, or if he is, he is not requesting help, describing the specific<br>
> problem encountered, he is merely demanding that someone DO SOMETHING TO<br>
> FIX THIS!<br>
><br>
> A common reason would be that the user no longer has access to an account<br>
> for sending mail, but is still receiving mail to that account. If that is<br>
> the case here, then Harry isn't telling anyone what the account is. The<br>
> complete headers from a list mail to him would show what's happening.<br>
> (Below, I figure out that this is not the case here. It's commonly a case<br>
> with open mailing lists, this list is, however, closed.)<br>
><br>
> STOP and all that does absolutely nothing. The instructions below do say<br>
> how to unsubscribe. One of Harry's mails seems to be a response to a mail<br>
> from <a href="mailto:wikiversity-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org">wikiversity-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org</a> and it looks like the<br>
> subject was not created as instructed for unsubscription.<br>
><br>
> If Harry tells us what he has done, and what happened, we will then know<br>
> more specifically what to do about it. I'm not personally going to file a<br>
> complaint with the overall <a href="http://wikimedia.org" target="_blank">wikimedia.org</a> listserver administration unless<br>
> I can verify a problem. And they are quite likely, given the massive<br>
> subscription lists, to ignore complaints written in all caps that don't<br>
> provide adequate information.<br>
><br>
> To find out if the listserver is operating, I entered a number of commands<br>
> through the web interface, which is *public*. I merely need enter the<br>
> subscribed email address. The page is at<br>
> <a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l" target="_blank">https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l</a><br>
><br>
> On that page, in the "Wikiversity-l" subscribers section, after entering<br>
> my subscribed email address, I pressed the "unsubscribe or edit options"<br>
> button.<br>
><br>
> I got a member options page acknowledging my email address as a<br>
> subscriber, and one of the buttons was unsubscribe. I pressed the<br>
> unsubscribe button, and, after a few minutes' delay, I received a<br>
> confirmation mail. If I had responded with no changes to that mail, I<br>
> presume I'd have been unsubscribed. I'd forgotten my password, which is not<br>
> needed for unsubscription, so I then pressed the password reminder button<br>
> and my password was emailed to me. Using the password, I logged in to the<br>
> member options page. There is also an immediate unsubscription option there<br>
> (since they know it's you because you logged in with the password.)<br>
><br>
> So I did the same, using the Harry address from the mails. I then pressed<br>
> an unsubscribe bottom, which, if Harry is a subscriber, would send him a<br>
> confirmation mail, with instructions that, if followed carefully, will<br>
> unsubscribe him. On the other hand, I tested this with a ridiculous<br>
> subscription address. The interface does not reveal if the person is a<br>
> subscriber or not.<br>
><br>
> If Harry does not receive a mail, he can then strongly infer that he is<br>
> not, under this email address, subscribed to the list. That, then, means<br>
> that *nobody* can help him, unless he provides the subscription mailing<br>
> address.<br>
><br>
> However, it is very likely that Harry is a subscriber, because the list<br>
> will reject mails from non-subscribers. I just tested that. Harry's mails,<br>
> from his gmail address, are not being held for moderator approval. (If a<br>
> moderator has set automatic approval, it would go through, but he'd also be<br>
> getting the message held for approval message. I've seen a moderator set up<br>
> automatic bounce approval when the moderation didn't want to surrender<br>
> control but also didn't have the time to actually manage the list.)<br>
><br>
> Harry, when you are in the middle of an amygdala hijack, you may not be<br>
> able to respond to instructions clearly. See if you can do whatever you<br>
> know to do to relax, have some tea or coffee, get to a place of calm, and<br>
> then try unsubscribing, reading everything carefully. You may find that<br>
> this fixes the interface, in a way that shouting doesn't.<br>
><br>
> The amazing thing here is how long the hijack has lasted.<br>
><br>
> Plus, I'm getting that we don't have a moderator who is regularly watching<br>
> this list and ready to fix problems.<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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> *From:* Shujen Chang <<a href="mailto:i@blue.cat">i@blue.cat</a>><br>
> *To:* Mailing list for Wikiversity <<a href="mailto:wikiversity-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikiversity-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a>><br>
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 30, 2012 8:28 AM<br>
> *Subject:* Re: [Wikiversity-l] Wikiversity-l Digest, Vol 58, Issue 4<br>
><br>
> You can just unsubscribe this mail list, if you do not want to receive any<br>
> letters from the mail list again.<br>
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