[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Draft Terms of Use for Review

[Milos Rancic]

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 00:18, Theo10011 <de10011 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>    - Harassment, threats, stalking, vandalism, and other long-term issues: The proposed agreement would make clear that such acts are prohibited.
>>     Novel for us, the agreement also raises the possibility of a global ban for
>>    extreme cross-wiki violations, a need that we have heard expressed from a
>>    number of community members. We will share that policy with the community in
>>    draft form shortly.  Dealing with such matters is a process that we hope
>>    volunteers will continue to lead on a day-to-day basis.
>>
> Is this a new direction? A new system that is being considered for WMF
> intervention in such matters? So far, these decisions have been left solely
> to local project bodies, or in the absence, to Stewards. I am wondering what
> the draft is going to cover. Can someone please shed some light on this?

As a steward I can just say: Thanks Thing that it's not anymore
stewards' job! As it will be staff action in the future, we wouldn't
have that recurring problem anymore!