[Foundation-l] It is the foundations responsibility ......... How to edit wikipedia when stupid mods block all Thai ip addresses

Luiz Augusto lugusto at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 19:17:20 UTC 2007


200 messages for global copyright issues isn't the same that 200 messages
for local blocking issues...

On 2/13/07, Walter van Kalken <walter at vankalken.net> wrote:
>
> It is the foundation who laid this policy on the communities in 2004!
> See Meta. It was a rule placed upon the communities by the foundation so
> if it flukes you cannot all of a sudden place the responsibility with
> the local community.
>
> Waerth.
>
> >The Foundation is deliberately restrained from managing the community
> >and content of Wikimedia projects. This separation exists for many
> >reasons. You should raise this issue with the community of the Dutch
> >Wikipedia.
> >
> >Walter van Kalken wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I am getting extremely impatient with RonaldB he seems to have a fetish
> >>for blocking Thai IP addresses on the Dutch wikipedia and he doesn't
> >>answerd emails send to him. I cannot even edit when I am logged in, not
> >>from a friends computer which uses a different provider. Is it the
> >>wikimedia foundations goal to block me??
> >>
> >>The last two weeks I have found the IP adresses of my provider
> >>constantly blocked, pre-emptively by RonaldB without any sign of
> >>vandalism by those IP adresses. Wikipedia can be editted by anyone? Not
> >>by me!
> >>
> >>Waerth
> >>
>


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