[Foundation-l] Dealing with interwiki disruption

[Brian McNeil]

I will start by highlighting that I have CheckUser on the English Wikinews.
This means I am on the CheckUser-l mailing list and have seen the discussion
that has privately taken place about a global blocking mechanism.

My understanding of the requested functionality is that it is primarily for
the most irritating IP addresses. We're not talking about someone who might
reform if they go to another project, we're talking about people who create
dozens of socks and take a perverse joy in making people clean up after
them. The people who project hop in the hope of vandalising undetected; the
really persistent vandals, not the strongly opinionated. We're talking
"Willy on Wheels", not "Wendy on Wako".


Brian McNeil
-----Original Message-----
From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Milos Rancic
Sent: 08 May 2008 16:58
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Dealing with interwiki disruption

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
> IIRC, Milos, you would love to have the proposed Volunteer Council to
>  have the role of SuperHyperArbcom. Then I think I have a good reason
>  to oppose strongly your idea.

May you read my emails again and find where I said so? I proposed
forming of Meta ArbCom, as well as I mentioned that VC may act as a
*temporary* Meta ArbCom because we need some body to start to deal
with sediments of problems before it is too late.

> I and Ray referred to the same person who was so trusted as to be
> promoted to sysop (and even b'crat) but once permanently blocked from
> English Wikipedia Arbcom?

If some body/group/community makes some unreasonable decision (en.wp
ArbCom is not the first, not the last; jp.wp community decision for
your block is much more problematic because it was, AFAIK,
*community's* decision, not ArbCom's decision) -- there are ways for
working on making them more reasonable. However, without Meta ArbCom
and/or VC we don't have a regular method for that.

The other option is to give global power to local ArbComs. If one
ArbCom is not reasonable, other ArbComs will notice that...

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