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A.
On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 5:47 PM Vi to <vituzzu.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This is a very complex long-term "war"
which, in my experience, never ends
in a "reconciliation".
Also, honestly, I don't think how can this comply with wikiversity mission.
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2017-11-06 15:30 GMT+01:00 mathieu stumpf guntz <
psychoslave(a)culture-libre.org>gt;:
> Thank Chico and Henrique for your reports and related links.
> I encourage both of you to document
further this topic. But as the
mailing
> list format might quickly turn it into a flameware, to avoid list
> moderators some disagreeable work, you could preferably find more suited
> place to develop your points. Punctual feedback on the list to signal
> creation or update of additional external resources is welcome, as far as
> I'm concerned.
> You might, inter alia, use
wikimedia-timeline[1] to generate an overview
> of main statements you are claiming, each linked to related resources
which
> let reader deepen their inquiry on the topic if they have interest and
> resources to do so.
> If you are interested to turn that in
a research project as objective as
> you might be able to create, I also encourage you to open a research
> project on a Wikiversity instance, after a check of how such a project
> might be conducted on the selected instance. You might also like to
create
> and conduct some interviews and publish them on Wikinews.
> I hope that the difficult situation
you are passing through will end up
in
> the most contributive, positive and placid possible resolution.
> Kind regards,
> mathieu
> [1]
https://github.com/molly/wikimedia-timeline
> Le 06/11/2017 à 11:59, Chico
Venancio a écrit :
>> Ended up with out the links,
sorry:
>> [
1]http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/wikibrasil.org.html
>> [
2]https://www.whois.com/whois/107.180.2.118
>> [3]http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/L9610.htm#art24
>>
>> Chico Venancio
>>
>> 2017-11-06 7:53 GMT-03:00 Chico Venancio <chicocvenancio(a)gmail.com>om>:
>>
>> To all on the list, *this is characterization is filled with obvious
>>> lies.*
>>>
>>> The DMCA was filed a month ago simply *DID NOT TAKE the site down*.[1]
>>> Henrique quickly took down the article offending copyright and Godaddy
>>> allowed it to continue to be hosted.[2]
>>>
>>> Henrique is a paid contractor of the user group Wiki Education Brazil
>>> that
>>> has repeatedly harassed several members of our user group (Joalpe and
>>> myself included). And is probably here acting as a Meatpuppet of
another
>> user who is under an Office action
interaction ban to interact with
>> either
>> myself or João.
>>
>> That he goes on an international platform to call on the Dean of the
>> university were João works is egregious harassment and WMF should not
>> only
>> impose severe sanctions, but review both the grant and affiliation
>> agreements with the "user group" were this comes from.
>>
>> On the merits, after the event the organizer harassed several of our
>> members, and to me it is completely understandable that João does not
>> want
>> his name attached to an event that harassed him and others. There was
on
>> more than one occasion hints of physical
violence from a member of Wiki
>> Education Brazil, and at one point those hints came to level of
actually
>> using the words "beating" in
reference to another member of our user
>> group,
>> Teles, who was also called a famous Wikipedia despot, that he needed
>> psychiatric attention, and that he needed to find a boyfriend on a
public
>> facebook thread.
>>
>> The CC-BY 3.0 Henrique alleges to have on the article is clearly
invalid
>> for several reasons, one being he did not
have one from the co-authors
of
>> the work. Even if he did, Brazilian law
supersedes it and clearly
states
>> that the author has the inalienable moral
right to revoke any license
and
>> remove from circulation in any form when
the use represents an affront
to
>> his image or reputation.[3] That Henrique
confesses that he, and the
user
>> banned from interacting with myself or
Joalpe, knew that license was
not
>> given by João and that an explicit
revocation was placed onwiki, only
>> makes
>> the copyright violation willful and demonstrates that no assumption of
>> good
>> faith can be reasonably made. This was an explicit provocation from the
>> "User Group" Wiki Education Brazil to João.
>>
>> Best to all on the Wikimedia Movement,
>>
>> Hoping for a movement with less tolerance for harassment,
>>
>> Chico Venancio (User:Chicocvenancio)
>>
>> 2017-11-06 1:08 GMT-03:00 Henrique de Andrade <
>> henriquedeandrade(a)gmail.com
>>
>>> :
>>> Friends, it took me a month to join forces and get the courage to
write
>>> the
>>> story below.
>>>
>>> The Wiki Education Brazil user group has had its website [1] shutted
>>> down
>>> due to an attack using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA),
and
>>> the
>>> most shocking of this story is that the legal threat was made by a
>>> "member"
>>> of the Wikimedia community: Mr. João Alexandre Peschanski, who uses
the
>>> username Joalpe.
>>>
>>> My unreal saga began on October 7th when I received an email informing
>>> me
>>> that the WMF Support and Safety team had received a complaint from
>>> Joalpe
>>> that his copyright was being violated by the publication on the I
>>> CCBWIKI
>>> (I Brazilian Scientific Congress of Wikipedia) website of a paper
which
>>> he
>>> is a co-author.
>>>
>>> I thought this situation was very strange and I imagined it was a
>>> misunderstanding. I promptly in good faith emailed Joalpe, copying WMF
>>> team, trying to figure out what could have led to this misleading
>>> interpretation that we were committing a copyright infringement. In
the
>>> email I reminded him that he knows
several members of the Wiki Edu
>>> Brazil
>>> group and that he could communicate directly with us if he was
bothered
>>> with something and that, if he wanted
to, I could remove from the site
>>> the
>>> work of which he is a co-author, even though it is on the CC-BY 3.0
>>> license.
>>>
>>> To my surprise I never received a reply from Joalpe. Instead, two days
>>> after my contact arrives a message from GoDaddy (company where the
Wiki
>>> Edu
>>> Brasil’s site is hosted in the United States) informing that we have
>>> received a "complete DMCA complaint", made by the Center for
Research,
>>> Innovation and Diffusion in Neuromamatics of the University of São
Paulo
>>> (CEPID NeuroMat - USP), signed by
João Alexandre Peschanski.
>>>
>>> In this complaint he alleges that in the page that I made with the
texts
>>> sent to the I CCBWIKI there would be
a text of which he is one of the
>>> authors and that he would have revoked our authorization to publish
it,
>>> accuses us of not giving the due
credits in the work and implies that
we
>>> would have copied the content from
another conference, prior to
CCBWIKI,
>>> where it would have been originally
published.
>>>
>>> I lack words to describe my revolt at such absurd lies. First: not
only
>>> was
>>> the authorization not revoked but also a Creative Commons publication
>>> could
>>> not have its permission revoked for sharing. Secondly, in fact his
name
>>> did
>>> not appear on the page listing the papers, because the main author of
>>> the
>>> article did not register it correctly in the system, but when clicking
>>> on
>>> the file his name was in the credits correctly. Third: the published
>>> content was exactly the one sent by the author David Fernando Levon
>>> Alves
>>> on August 29, 2016, and until the current unfortunate legal threat I
did
>>> not even know of the existence of
Intercom conference, where I now
know
>>> that the same paper had been
presented in September 9th.
>>>
>>> And Joalpe knows all about it! Even on page that he links[2] in his
>>> complaint saying that is proof of him having revoked our authorization
>>> for
>>> publication, he clearly says that he disallows the publication of the
>>> paper
>>> his is the main author, and that he would talk to the other author to
>>> propose withdrawing the paper in question, and the chair of the event
>>> promptly replied indicating that the dialogue should continue through
>>> the
>>> conference management system (it is worth noting that he said he would
>>> like
>>> to withdraw his work because he has never seen an academic conference
>>> that
>>> does not pay for the transfer and accommodations for all, an argument
>>> that
>>> does not make any sense to anyone that minimally knows the reality of
>>> Brazilian academy).
>>>
>>> Still bewildered by this nonsense I had to decide what to do. The DMCA
>>> notice gave us two options: either to remove the illegally posted file
>>> or
>>> to contest the complaint. Thinking about justice, we would obviously
opt
>>> for the second option because we were
not doing anything illegal. But
>>> within the cruel logic of the DMCA, we were given an absurd 24-hour
>>> deadline to send a response and our page was already off. It is worth
>>> mentioning that at that moment our host removed all the pages in the
>>> domain
>>>
wikibrasil.org, and not just the page with the annals of the previous
>>> conference. In this way, projects such as IWSC and WLM that were in
key
>>> moments of their execution were also
unavailable to users. So, to the
>>> very
>>> annoyance we had to remove the file (as if we were guilty!) In order
to
>>> request that the sites be
republished.
>>>
>>> Yet stunned by this, I asked for help from the WMF’s Trust & Safety
and
>>> the
>>> Legal Team. Both were sympathetic, but the WMF's legal support
policies
>>> provide support only for problems
regarding content hosted on the
>>> foundation's servers, and since that was not the case, I could not
>>> receive
>>> formal legal support. Unsure, fearing the possible legal implications
of
>>> the complaint, and without knowing
how to defend myself I spoke with
>>> groups
>>> of free culture and defense of freedom of expression and concluded
that
>>> the
>>> best way to defend myself would be to publicize the ongoing
persecution.
>>>
>>> The days that followed were very difficult for me. Whenever I had to
>>> deal
>>> with any wiki subject I was taken by a feeling of revolt and could not
>>> do
>>> anything. I spent hours trying to write these words but I just
couldn’t
>>> do
>>> it. Having to face a legal threat through the DMCA may already be
>>> something
>>> to wrap the stomach itself, but having to do it knowing that who
>>> denounces
>>> know he is lying, says himself a defender of free culture and is even
a
>>> member of the Wikimedia community is
unbelievably revolting!
>>>
>>> We all know that wikis communities are not a bed of roses and I have
>>> several times left and I stopped editing because of the bullying done
by
>>> users like him. But this time I won’t
shut up! The destructive
behavior
>>> of
>>> this person has escalated in a way that is forcing me to spend all my
>>> time
>>> studying United States copyright law to defend myself from something I
>>> did
>>> not do, and he knows it well. This user used his influence to move the
>>> largest university in Latin America into an international legal threat
>>> against the movement he claims to be a part of. We need to stop it!
>>>
>>> For those who do not know this user, it is worth pointing out that he
>>> leads
>>> a users group, and receives funding from WMF to conduct outreach
>>> activities. I repeat: This person who uses the DMCA to legally
threaten
>>> members of the Wikimedia community is
receiving money from our
movement
>>> to
>>> fund their projects. We can not accept this anymore! Joao Alexandre
>>> Peschanski (a.k.a. Joalpe) should be boycotted in every possible way
by
>>> the
>>> Wikimedia movement. A copyright troll should never receive grants, be
>>> accepted in our spaces and have the right to speak on behalf of our
>>> community!
>>>
>>> In addition to measures within the Wikimedia community I also ask for
>>> your
>>> support to help with my defense of Joalpe's attack on the legal
world. I
>>> call upon all advocates of free
culture, freedom of knowledge and the
>>> Wikimedia movement to endorse the following petition [3], addressed to
>>> the
>>> University of São Paulo, demanding that it immediately withdraw the
>>> complaint of violation to the DMCA made against the Wiki Educação
Brasil
>>> group, and that it immediately stops
pursuing free-culture movements
in
>>> Brazil and in the world:
>>>
https://www.change.org/p/reitor-da-usp-pare-imediatamente-
>>> de-usar-a-justiça-americana-para-tirar-site-wiki-brasil-do-ar
>>> <https://www.change.org/p/reitor-da-usp-pare-imediatamente-
>>> de-usar-a-justi>
>>>
>>> I publish this letter still frightened, but already without fear and
>>> confident that united we will overcome one more attack that threatens
>>> not
>>> only the Wikimedia movement, but the whole culture of free knowledge.
>>>
>>> "Imagine a world in which every person on the planet has free access
to
>>> the
>>> sum of all human knowledge. That is what we are doing." Jimbo Wales
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Henrique de Andrade (User: HenriqueCrang)
>>>
>>> [1]
http://wikibrasil.org
>>>
>>> [2]
>>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wiki_Education_Brazil/
>>> Events/Congresso_Científico_Brasileiro_da_Wikipédia/2016#
>>> Tr.C3.AAs_d.C3.BAvidas
>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wiki_Education_Brazil/
>>> Events/Congresso_Cient>
>>>
>>> [3]
>>>
https://www.change.org/p/reitor-da-usp-pare-imediatamente-
>>> de-usar-a-justiça-americana-para-tirar-site-wiki-brasil-do-ar
>>> <https://www.change.org/p/reitor-da-usp-pare-imediatamente-
>>> de-usar-a-justi>
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