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

[Kudu]

That'll be more than $10 at ~$200/hour. :P

~K

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:14 PM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 01:48, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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!
>
> hahaha ... sure, where does it stop and whats next? do not have any
> stewards any more?  then have no admins any more? i would really love
> if you just ask any person on the street the question: imagine you
> give 10 $ to wikipedia, should we use it to pay a lawyer to make the
> terms of use 10 times as long as before? and then count the "yes"
> answers :)
>
> rupert.
>
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