>From the terms of use
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We reserve the right to suspend or end the services at any time, with or
without cause, and with or without notice.
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On Nov 27, 2014 10:34 AM, "reguyla(a)gmail.com" <reguyla(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I dont think its illegal, its just that it doesnt have any legal standing
> at all. The terms of use used to have a condition for it yearsvago but that
> was removed.
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> ------ Original message------
>
> *From: *JJ Marr
>
> *Date: *Thu, Nov 27, 2014 10:25 AM
>
> *To: *Addressing gender equity and exploring ways to increase the
> participation of women within Wikimedia projects.;
>
> *Subject:*Re: [Gendergap] What's happening at ArbCom re WP:GGTF
>
>
>
> ArbCom isn't illegal. I have no idea how you'd be able to appeal an online
> pseudotribunal to an actual court. It baffles the mind, especially since
> they provided clear rationale and the WMF is allowed to associate with
> whoever they want. I'm fairly sure that the hypothetical case would
> probably be dismissed extremely quickly.
> On Nov 27, 2014 3:13 AM, "Jim Hayes" <slowking4(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> yes ,
>> i would say that arbcom might be unaware of how negatively it will be
>> viewed
>> clearly newyorkbrad was angling for block both sides,
>> to make it easier to block the "unblockable"
>> and the majority appears to have tilted in one direction.
>> keep in mind that a life ban worked real well on betacommand
>>
>> as for "new regimen of non-appealable civility blocks"
>> i'll believe it when i see it, just as when i will believe Jimbo Wales'
>> talk at wikimania.
>>
>> at this late date, it is show me - soft is hard.
>> we can plan a culture change, off wiki if necessary, but the revanchism
>> will be ugly.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Kevin Gorman <kgorman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It's noteworthy that they are not non-appealable blocks. I honestly
>>> don't think this is beyond the scope of the list, although it's certainly a
>>> depressing topic. Allowing severe gendered slurs to be bandied about with
>>> essentially no penalty is likely something that is going to decrease the
>>> participation of women on ENWP - which is not a good thing. I know there's
>>> been some debate in the past about whether or not ENWP specific issues are
>>> appropriate for this list, but I believe this is a large enough one to be.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Kevin Gorman
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case <
>>> dancase(a)frontiernet.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> >Eric Corbett is going to be under a new regimen of non-appealable
>>>> civility blocks under the aegis of Arbitration Enforcement.
>>>>
>>>> One wonders if it's really time for someone to just initiate a
>>>> discussion on AN as to whether the community's patience with him is
>>>> exhausted enough to community-ban him indefinitely, regardless of the
>>>> outcome of any ArbCom case. We have done things like this before--after one
>>>> such editor prompted multiple suggestions that he be banned among the many
>>>> opposes he received when he ran for ArbCom with the premise of effectively
>>>> abolishing it by voting against hearing any new cases, I initiated that
>>>> discussion, which led to the editor in question pretty much jumping before
>>>> he was pushed.
>>>>
>>>> And I say this as someone who has never interacted with him in any
>>>> meaningful way, at least not for years, but sees and hears him increasingly
>>>> discussed as the *one* user who represents all the shortcomings of our
>>>> disciplinary processes. Whether he is a genuinely toxic person or not seems
>>>> to be a matter of some debate, but I think there is no doubt that the
>>>> perception that he is has increasingly mooted that question.
>>>>
>>>> Of course we could also consider the suggestion Jimmy had in his
>>>> closing speech at Wikimania this year that we deal with toxic people on the
>>>> site who also happen to be good content creators by giving them their own
>>>> wikis where they, and anyone who wanted to work with them, could develop
>>>> and improve whatever content they wanted to.for reimportation. Maybe part
>>>> of the problem is that we offer too limited a choice of
>>>>
>>>> (And per other emails, this is really beyond the scope of this list, so
>>>> any followups should probably directed to me personally or taken on-wiki.
>>>> Besides I don't want to ruin anyone's Thanksgiving, regardless of whether
>>>> you celebrate it or not--we all deserve a break).
>>>>
>>>> Daniel Case
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Hi gendergap folks!
I hope you're well. :]
I'm writing conflict resolution documentation for LocalWiki (
https://localwiki.org/main/Front_Page), a global local knowledge commons.
Do you have any conflict resolution resources for online communities, or
conflict resolution examples from Wikimedia projects you'd like to
recommend? I'm particularly interested in examples of online nonviolent
communication modalities, and intersectional feminist perspectives on
online conflict resolution in communities of mixed real name and *nym
identities. (This all said, I'm open to all suggestions--I've lurked this
list for a while and highly value the perspectives I've found on it.)
Thank you!
Vicky
Dear all,
I found an interesting research done by Laura Hale about "Communicating on
Wikipedia while female : A discursive analysis of the use of the word cunt
on English Wikipedia user talk pages" on meta wiki. The link to the
research page is here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Communicating_on_Wikipedia_while_f…
Regards
Netha
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Laura Hale <laura(a)fanhistory.com>
Date: Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:57 PM
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Communicating on Wikipedia while female
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <
wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hey,
I posted some new research to meta at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Communicating_on_Wikipedia_while_f…
. It is titled: Communicating on Wikipedia while female A discursive
analysis of the use of the word cunt on English Wikipedia user talk pages.
Thought it might be of some interest to people on this list.
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
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<http://swethaambari.wordpress.com>*
Regarding the article (well done and interesting, thank you), there was a
mention of the authors tracking "if the target was still contributing to
English Wikipedia following the threat" but I didn't spot the followup in
the article for any results to that .... Did someone else? Were actual
stats reported?
Also, what seems like a related question, but again, was it brought up or
did I miss it: if productivity is presented as an argument for accepting
bad behavior, has anyone actually done any statistical correlation or
tracking of content productivity of people who've used abusive terminology
as compared to those who don't?
Thanks, Mary
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> From: Netha Hussain <nethahussain(a)gmail.com>
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> Dear all,
>
> I found an interesting research done by Laura Hale about "Communicating on
> Wikipedia while female : A discursive analysis of the use of the word cunt
> on English Wikipedia user talk pages" on meta wiki. The link to the
> research page is here:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Communicating_on_Wikipedia_while_f…
>
> Regards
> Netha
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Laura Hale <laura(a)fanhistory.com>
> Date: Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:57 PM
> Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Communicating on Wikipedia while female
> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <
> wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Hey,
>
> I posted some new research to meta at
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Communicating_on_Wikipedia_while_f…
> . It is titled: Communicating on Wikipedia while female A discursive
> analysis of the use of the word cunt on English Wikipedia user talk pages.
> Thought it might be of some interest to people on this list.
>
> Sincerely,
> Laura Hale
>
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> Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode
> Blogs :
> *nethahussain.blogspot.com
> <http://nethahussain.blogspot.com>swethaambari.wordpress.com
> <http://swethaambari.wordpress.com>*
>
Hi all -
I can't tell if Romana's recent message was accidentally allowed to go out
to the whole list or not; apologies if it was, I will be removing him from
the list momentarily.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
... as the latest in the interminable series of IAC sockpuppets.
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Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and
clothes."
-- Desiderius Erasmus
Dear Anthony (AGK)
I'm very sorry to bother you, but could I have a timeline with respect
to deletion, or not, of those images ?
With the welfare of the children in mind, I feel that the school, the
children's parents and the local child welfare committees, magistrates
and police should be properly sensitized to the incidents of that
day, and to ensure it cannot reoccur
I'm sure the police and the Indian Govt Cyber Advisory Committee would
be interested in learning from you or NYBrad the finer points of law
whereby Citizendium encyclopedia decides to completely wipes out the
images within 12 hours but Wikipedia has not done anything till now on
identical complaint.
I would also like to know by when you will publish across all
Wikipedia projects the complete list of accounts and IPs I have
allegedly used, and also if I am a sockpuppet of User:MehulWB as
alleged or not. This is required by your same policy WP:SOCK under
which was blocked.
Thanks
On 11/18/14, Romana Busse <romana.busse(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> This is about a potential threat to clearly identifiable Indian minor
> school children whose images are retained on WMF servers in USA and
> India despite legal notice to remove them.
> Taken within their school (where their parents expected the same
> degree of privacy as they enjoy at home) and uploaded without their
> permission, consent or knowledge, at a location where they allegedly
> viewed grossly obscene pornography accessed on a Wikimedia Foundation
> service which has now been disabled on complaint by a body called
> [[India Against Corruption]].
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