[Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

[Dror Kamir]

I cannot comment on the case of Kosovo, because I have no information 
about this case (as far as Wikipedia is concerned, that is), however, 
phenomena which resemble this description are very common in articles 
about conflicts, especially the Middle East conflict. There are groups 
of editors whose aim is watching an article so it would represent their 
political view, and these groups often file complaints about editors who 
try to edit the certain article in a different way, in order to have 
them blocked or the article put under special protection. The current 
administrative system of Wikipedia cannot handle these phenomena. 
Various attempts were made in order to handle this problem, but 
unfortunately, they just added damage rather than ease the problem. I 
can understand why Wikimedians with influence are reluctant to deal with 
problems related to politics. The Wikimedia projects are not political, 
and any decision about this kind of issues might be perceived as 
political decision. And yet, the problem is there and it grows and it 
cannot be avoided forever.

Dror K

בתאריך 09/04/11 20:09, ציטוט Mike Dupont:
> About the foundation openness,
> I wanted to write a comment on the foundation page, but it was not open.
> So I wrote my comment on SJ talk page,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Sj#Openness
>
> Here is what I have to say about wikipedia and openness :
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>
> HI, I wanted to comment on
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Talk:Resolution:Openness
>
> I have lost interest in wasting my time on wikipedia after being harassed by
> WhiteWriter and his friends while editing articles related to kosovo. The
> serbs are stalking and harassing anyone who even wants to add simple facts
> and make life difficult for anyone. It is a real pain. I hope that you will
> get them under control some day, they are really messing wikipedia up.
> thanks, mike James Michael DuPont<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mdupont>(
> talk<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mdupont>) 21:54, 8 April 2011
>
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>
> Mike
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