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

[rupert THURNER]

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.