2009/7/27 geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>om>: I'm working on it for a few days. By the way, this isn't the first time the Ombudsman Commission is "laggy". I would think that a mailing list isn't the best tool to work on cases. -- Christophe

This is strange - in times past, we have had only 3 ombudsmen at a time, and now we have five. Are they all fairly active? Do they want to continue this role? Have they all been contacted? I notice, for example, that the enwiki based ombudsman, Sam Korn, has made just one edit this month. I think for a role like this, it is necessary to be more active than that. -- Alex (User:Majorly)

2009/7/28 Casey Brown <lists(a)caseybrown.org>rg>: I agree, edits aren't really relevant. In fact, I think people that aren't very active on the projects would make better ombudsmen since they are less likely to be involved and can be more independent. What's most important is whether or not they are active on the commission. Perhaps the WMF should take over this role? It is their privacy policy being enforced. When the commission was founded the WMF was very small and it would have been very difficult for them to do the job, but it is much bigger now so might be able to manage.

The issue is still unresolved. de:User:Mautpreller, who filed the original complaint, just affirmed that there is still no answer. See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Checkuser/Anfragen#Ombuds… So, just doing nothing may be a way of telling de:User:Mautpreller that his complaint is considered pointless, but this method of (non-)communication seems out of place for complaints regarding such a central topic as the privacy policy. Regards, Peter *:User:Pjacobi