Maybe you've decided to avoid the project pages on Wikinews as of late...
hey, we can't blame you. Or maybe you're purposefully avoiding Request For
Permission because you're tired of voting on reconfirmations. Either way,
Wikinews needs you!
We've got Oversighters up for vote, 4 in fact (Choices, oh my)! In order to
get local oversight, we need 25 support votes, and at least 2 OS'rs. We're
getting close to that count... but we're not quite there. So please, stop
by WN:RFP ( http://enwn.net/rfp ) and vote today.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Requests_for_permissions#Requests_for_…
Vote. Or the Wikipedian's win.
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Jon
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> Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] [SPAM] Re: Fwd: Re: Wikipedia e-mail (Matthew
> Edwards' email)
> From: diego.grez(a)wikinewsie.org
> Date: Sat, June 05, 2010 1:35 am
> To: "Wikinews mailing list" <wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> I agree. All of this shouldn't have happened. the stupid damage he caused was catastrophic for the community. I hope this will be, someday, forgotten.
Not by me.
Oh, and good luck getting the checkuser and proxy checks done on your
new pet troll.
Brian.
> Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] [SPAM] Re: Fwd: Re: Wikipedia e-mail (Matthew
> Edwards' email)
> From: diego.grez(a)wikinewsie.org
> Date: Fri, June 04, 2010 8:17 pm
> To: "Wikinews mailing list" <wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> We must have wait his response before impossing a community ban on him.
Are you referring to Matthew Edwards? Are you trying to reopen this can
of worms?
No. Stop it. Drop it. This circus needs brought to a complete halt; I
have not spent hundreds of dollars keeping the wikinewsie.org domain
running, put thousands of hours into keeping the project's identity
distinct from Wikipedia, and, all-too-often put it before things others
would give precedence to, for this sort of shit to happen.
Edwards had my private email, my private phone number, or could have
kept us all informed with a single line on-wiki if there was a problem.
None of these things happened; there was his return to Wikipedia
editing, and no notification to anyone on Wikinews. Zero response to
notification when I removed his Wikinewsie email.
The case is closed, and an un-fucking-believable amount of damage to the
community was the outcome.
I don't think making a credible, free, news source is a game. Do you?
Newspapers are disappearing behind paywalls; if you do not start
thinking a couple of years ahead, then I will have wasted the last five
pushing, cajoling, and - sometimes beating - the project and community
into a position to capitalise on that.
For the last time, and the last time only, archive these insane
flamefests and in-fighting off WN:RFP and WN:AAA. This can be reviewed
when we have all had a good time to cool off.
Personally, I'm questioning whether I should renew the Wikinewsie.org
domain next month. But, that decision is mine alone. With what has
happened in my personal life over the last two years it could,
ironically, be considered one of the very few assets I still own. Yet, I
hold it for what I see as a common good.
Brian.
I went ahead an redacted all the email addresses below as a courtesy for
Matthew Edwards and myself.
--Mikemoral
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Wikipedia e-mail
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:25:42 +0000
Hi,
I'm not really sure what's going on. I haven't been on Wikinews in several days, and my family and I have been out of the country for most of last week and this, so if there has been any recent vandalism or other activity associated with my account please notify Wikipedia and Commons, or meta or something, because it is not me and I have unified login and use the same account password, and I am also an admin at WP.
I will have to deal with it all when I get back to America but I'm not coming home til Saturday, and even then might not get online til I go back to work Monday.
I don't have any access to the internet right now; nomally I could use my cellphone but I don't want to pay international roaming data charges, and my mother doesn't own a computer. I will try to get to an internet cafe, but I have other things I.R.L. that I must deal with first that are more important.
Thanks for letting me know, and I'll also see if I have any WP admins in my email contacts to tell them to block my account.
Regards, Matthew Edwards
----------
Sent from my Verizon Wireless mobile phone
------Original Message------
From: Mikemoral<redacted>
To: "Matthewedwards"<redacted>
Date: Thu, Jun 3, 4:32 AM +0000
Subject: Wikipedia e-mail
Hello,
I'm informing you as a Wikinews sysop that you have been indefinitely blocked from Wikinews. You may see details of the block at Wikinews' version of ANI at<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Admin_action_alerts#Matthewedwards_.28…>.
Regards,
Mikemoral
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Hi,
Not sure whether I'd get time to reply, so I'm forwarding this.
Pmlineditor
------- Forwarded message -------
From: Saki <saqib.qayyum(a)hotmail.com>
To: Pmlineditor <pmlinediter(a)live.com>
Cc:
Subject: Wikinews e-mail
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 15:12:49 +0530
Hi,
I am Saki, a Wikipedian much active on English Wikipedia and now sign-up
for Wikinews. I've got a chance to interview in person of Asian Project
Coordinator Creative Commons for Wikinews. I have begin preparing
questionnaires so it would be great if Wikinews community could suggest me
some questions for my interview, which is scheduled on May 20th in Tokyo,
Japan.
What theme and topics should I put to have a good use of this interview?
She will leave for Korea in the begening of next month to attend CC Asia
Conference so we could ask about this conference in the interview.
I'll look forward to have suggestions of Wikinews community. Please do not
ignore!
Thank you.
Saki
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at Wikinews.
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A heads up, some bright spark has suggested [1] merging Wikinews into
Wikipedia. This came up on IRC and I've alerted the French Wikinews
community on their IRC channel.
Alexandr Dmitri
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Wikinews.2FWikipedia_merge_p…
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