Wil, I have been following the conversation and I can feel your good-hearted nature. Please do not be offended when they say "wait" to you. They mean no harm to you, just the opposite.
I know how frustrating it is to have to wait, because all of us have gone through the same... Just to give you an example of my experience, it took me almost a year until I felt comfortable editing in my home project. Understanding the subjective experience of editing is something you will not find in any book, you have to go through it and then some opinions will make more sense to you. It took me many more years until I ventured to bring up topics that affect bigger communities. And now after ten years I am still learning... just figure.
Patience is a very positive trait and we never have enough of it. They have been giving it to you because they appreciate you, and if you give it back to them they will appreciate you even more.
Welcome to the community and an internet hug for you!
Micru
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Wil Sinclair wllm@wllm.com wrote:
Well, we were discussing IRC and my experience there in this thread, and many people were asking me to "wait." I find this interesting, because some on Wikipediocracy also asked me to "wait," with the significant exception that this was to "wait until I so something, then come back." In this case, it was "wait until you've read these articles and seen this stuff on-wiki, then come back." I agreed. They then checked in with me regularly (I think most of them thought I was going to bail), and once I had read the material I had agreed to read, we resumed the discussion. It's all here: It's all here on this thread: http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4531
But I think I've figured out a way for me to bring up topics without worrying about my level of experience with Wikipedia/Wikimedia. I'll start a new thread with my concerns and what I've come up with.
,Wil
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoekstra@gmail.com wrote:
We are all interested in hearing all sides of every story here, aren't we? I'm starting to get the feeling that there are things that some people on this list don't want *anyone* to discuss.
Which things, and which people are you aiming at, particularly?
--Martijn
After all, you could simply ignore my messages or even filter them from your inbox, if you are so inclined. This impression has been troubling me greatly. Do you know that this is *precisely* what many on Wikipediocracy are saying about this list? Are they right?
,Wil
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Wil Sinclair wllm@wllm.com wrote:
Thanks, I wasn't aware I could do this. I'm assuming that it would be obvious who was an employee at Wikimedia in the log, too. I posted
the
following to Wikipediocracy a few minutes ago:
" I may have misread which page the rev was on, or I misunderstood the person who said s/he revdeleted it in thinking that it had been revdeleted in the previous few minutes. This is exactly why I prefer public recorded forums. Now no one can go back to clear up the confusion. For all I know, I might have to apologize for a misunderstanding, and it would really suck if I somehow
misrepresented
things and didn't have any opportunity to straighten things out.
Of course, it is entirely on me. I knew that the IRC channels weren't logged, and that it was a bannable offense to log them (for those who aren't familiar with IRC, this essentially means that you aren't supposed to save conversations there; in most channels that's A-OK, but on all of the most used wikipedia channels it seems to be disallowed). Next time I have a concern, I will take it to
wikimedia-l
or one of the other mailing lists. As this example also shows, one can't be sure that the revs on a page within Wikimedia's wikis themselves won't be redacted after-the-fact. I'm not expressing an opinion about whether stuff should be redacted or on what grounds,
but
I am asserting that it is possible to do so. "
There is a discussion about this issue there, as well. It can be followed at the link I posted earlier. Here's the last page of the discussion that includes the comment above:
http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4680&p=96600#p9...
,Wil
Hi Wil,
This is exactly why others have suggested that you slow down, and
focus
on
learning the basics of the Wikimedia projects and movements before
jumping
into the hottest, most controversial issues. It takes time to develop
the
understanding necessary to draw conclusions, especially in areas most likely to erupt into drama and heated exchanges.
To wit, I don't believe it can even be determined if someone is
logging a
channel, and many people (including Wikimedians) log all of their
channels.
Several Wikimedia-related channels are publicly logged. Other channels prohibit people from publishing logs.
It's also quite common knowledge that revisions can be deleted (by any administrator, where they remain viewable by administrators) or
suppressed
altogether (by users with Oversight rights). I think if you
considered it
with a full possession of the facts, you would agree that this is good
and
necessary.
In any case, thank you Lila for your note! I appreciate that you have
made
it clear you've seen the threads of the last few weeks and understand
the
concerns that posters have described.
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