[Foundation-l] Issues regarding admin(s?) on wikinews, effects: globally

[Ilya Haykinson]

Ok, I'm really confused. There has indeed been some heated editing on
Wikinews which caused the departure of one admin (who I hope will come
back someday) and the temporary banning of another for violating the
3RR -- not an unusual thing.

But I think that this message makes no sense, as I think there has not
been any abuse by Erik.

If there are any problems on Wikinews, I think that they stem from
failures to communicate, and from an overindulgence in talking about
process versus writing more news articles. Those are correctable and
are being worked on: I doubt that Wikipedia grew up without tensions
between editors.

The majority of the message here is unsubstantiated, specifically
"many problems by abusing sysop rights", nor the bunch of aliases, nor
the admin'ed sysops. I've definitely not had the chance to find a
sockpuppet admin that Kyle is referring to.

-ilya haykinson
 en:wikinews sysop & bureaucrat


On 7/5/05, Kyle Lutze <kylelutze at cox.net> wrote:
> Kyle Lutze wrote:
> 
> >There have been slight issues on en.wikinews.org that are quite
> >troubling and need to be addressed.
> >
> >It seems that one of the admins, Eloquence, has been causing many
> >problems by abusing his admin/sysop rights. He is also, from what I
> >gather, the research director for WMF.
> >
> >He has now banned other sysops on that wiki, including Nick Gerda
> >(ngerda), uses a bunch of aliases that he has given admin status to, and
> >has been disregarding the wiki process and community.
> >
> >Please note, I do not do too much work on the wiki itself, but I keep in
> >touch with quite a few people in #wikinews on freenode that have left
> >disgruntled because of what Erik/Eloquence has done, which I believe
> >just isn't right.
> >
> >Kyle
> >
> >
> forgot one of the aliases,
> Erik/Eloquence/Xirzon are the one's I've been told
> 
> Kyle
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