[Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

Mono monomium at gmail.com
Sun May 12 00:26:05 UTC 2013


On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 5:07 PM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Mono <monomium at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There's been a long-term conflict with volunteers & staff on
> > wikimediafoundation.org. As a user, I understand. Each staff member
> likes
> > to keep everything their way. They frequently revert changes (take a look
> > at the discussion and user talk pages, especially for MZMcBride) on
> 'staff
> > authority'. This is a logical next step against these users (most likely
> > MZ) so there's no conflict.
> >
> > Is this a bad thing? Most likely not. Is the reason behind it a bad
> thing?
> > Yes.

Nathan wrote:
>> >If the conflict was primarily with MZMcBride (which seems to be the
>> >case), then it was a bit cowardly to overhaul the entire scheme on the
>> >site in order to avoid telling him to knock it off.
>>
>>> What'd I do?
>>> MZMcBride
>>
>>
MZMcBride, when I originally wrote this I was referencing nothing in
particular. I was just observing a pattern of reversions and conflicts
between you, me, staff & others. Looking at the history of your talk page
on wmfwiki (and mine), this can be found.


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