Dear Florence,
It is with great regret that I am writing to report suspicious behavior by a user from Rwanda.
As part of the African Environment project that you are conducting in partnership with Wikimedia CI, I have submitted a funding request since February 14th [1].
However, as I was checking this morning to see if you have already decided on my project, I was surprised to see that the project has been slightly modified, and I am no longer the project owner. It is now the user Nkunda102 who has taken over the project. I did not want to simply undo his modifications, at the risk that he might come back again. I want to bring the situation to your level so that you know what to do, but at the same time, I would like to alert the whole community so that such behavior cannot happen again, because it tarnishes the image of Africa, as well as of Wikipedia.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Environment/Microfunding/Let%E2%80%99...
Kind regards,
Patience Kavira Environmental specialist University of Kisangani
Dear Patience
Thank you for your email and alerting us to this disturbing and disappointing issue. That must have been a very stressful discovery for you.
We are going to look into it over the weekend and get back to you on Monday, hopefully, with the course of action we will take.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Warm regards Isla
On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 at 12:55, patience kavira patiencekavira@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Florence,
It is with great regret that I am writing to report suspicious behavior by a user from Rwanda.
As part of the African Environment project that you are conducting in partnership with Wikimedia CI, I have submitted a funding request since February 14th [1].
However, as I was checking this morning to see if you have already decided on my project, I was surprised to see that the project has been slightly modified, and I am no longer the project owner. It is now the user Nkunda102 who has taken over the project. I did not want to simply undo his modifications, at the risk that he might come back again. I want to bring the situation to your level so that you know what to do, but at the same time, I would like to alert the whole community so that such behavior cannot happen again, because it tarnishes the image of Africa, as well as of Wikipedia.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Environment/Microfunding/Let%E2%80%99...
Kind regards,
Patience Kavira Environmental specialist University of Kisangani
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