[Foundation-l] Steward elections: summary, week one

[Dan Rosenthal]

Which is more likely to happen in some countries than others.

Though, I do agree that it is a silly reason to oppose in light of his  
quite reasonable concessions.

-Dan
On Feb 10, 2009, at 5:26 AM, Muhammad Alsebaey wrote:

> I would say the likelihood of him being the target of the Iranian  
> govt is
> the same as him being kidnapped by some terror group and tortured  
> for his
> access, which could happen in any country...
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Mido <mido.architect at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> it doesn't make any sense that one could think of such a reason to
>> oppose.if
>> you trust his abilities and good reasoning, give him the extra  
>> tools to
>> help
>> as he's willing to do so.
>> Also, he promised he won't do checkuser in Iranian projects which  
>> is the
>> most critical power to misuse.
>> this is a global project, you can't justify everything from only your
>> perspective.
>>
>> Mido
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:20, Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>> geni wrote:
>>>> 2009/2/9 Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de>:
>>>>
>>>>> Surely is this a prejudice. Because there is no data that  
>>>>> support such
>>>>> an assumption. In the eight years since the being of Wikipedia I  
>>>>> don't
>>>>> know any such case happend on any Wikimedia project.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ting
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Prejudice? We know Iran's record on human rights and we know Iran's
>>>> record of responding to speech they do not like (calling for the
>>>> assassination the citizen of another country for example).
>>>>
>>>> The available evidence is that the Iranian government is a  
>>>> potential
>>>> threat and unlike western governments don't have to worry about
>>>> annoying laws and bad PR if they try anything.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> That's not the point we are talking about here. There are  
>>> absolutely no
>>> data to rectify that the Iranian gouvenment would force a Wikimedia
>>> Steward to leak personal privacies of other Wikimedians. That's the
>> point.
>>>
>>> Ting
>>>
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