Esse é a mais recente wiki-novela envolvendo a relação entre a comunidade e a WMF:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Superprotect_rights

Por mais errada que possa ter sido a atitude por parte de um funcionário da WMF (não vi os detalhes), é impressionante o grau de agressividade de alguns voluntários em alguns momentos.

A WP PT já deve estar sabendo, pois fiquei sabendo via José Ribeiro num tópico da esplanada sobre o encontro do fim do mês. Mas divulgando aqui a quem interessar possa.

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From: John Mark Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com>
Date: 2014-08-10 14:29 GMT-03:00
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>


On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 10:08 PM, MZMcBride <z@mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>>On 10 August 2014 15:51, MZMcBride <z@mzmcbride.com> wrote:
>>> You'd been threatening to implement super-protection for a long time. I
>>> see you finally made good on this very bad idea. This is certainly bold,
>>> but also incredibly reckless. Your response to being told "we don't like
>>> your software" is to try shove it down a wiki community's throat?
>>
>>I thought this was a response to someone hamfistedly editing en:wp's
>>JS and *actually breaking it*. When Erik reverted this change and said
>>"don't break the damn wiki", the response was "but we can so we should
>>be able to!" and an attempt to take the Foundation to en:wp
>>arbitration. The obvious response is to make it so that such
>>blithering stupidity can't be enacted again.
>
> Super-protection was implemented in response to the German, not English,
> Wikipedia. It turns out that multiple communities don't like MediaViewer.
>
> Erik is squarely responsible for the mess being made here and deserves the
> full blame and consequences. He instigated the arbitration case on the
> English Wikipedia and he's now instigating a war with the German Wikipedia.
>
> The German Wikipedia community has looked at and evaluated MediaViewer and
> has decided that it doesn't want MediaViewer enabled on its wiki. Erik has
> made it his mission to force MediaViewer on the German Wikipedians (and
> the Commoners), using system administrators and community advocates and
> anyone else he can coerce. This is unacceptable behavior on Erik's part.
> MediaViewer is an entirely supplementary feature, not some fundamental or
> critical piece of infrastructure in desperate need of protection.

As this has wide-ranging implications, I have started an RFC on meta

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Superprotect_rights

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