How would superprotect be used in a legal situation and how would that be different from any other way that community and WMF have found to deal with that without the tool in the past? Can somebody provide a hyphotethical example please?
Is WMF willing to discuss with community how superprotect should be used? That was done before for other important policies and avoiding to explain this apparent unwillingness to openly discuss that does not leave a good impression, especially concerning the obscure ways on its creation and the fact it was created in order to make part of a wiki community... which is very contrasting. That maybe wouldn't disallow its creation, but just enforces a better procedure and more talking.
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2015-08-12 11:17 GMT-03:00 Steinsplitter Wiki steinsplitter-wiki@live.com:
We all know for what the tool was initially created. I am not sure if it is ethically okay to keep status quo. Maybe it is time to move on and remove the tool or to start a RFC to see if the community want the tool? :-)
Not advocating - just some thoughts and either way here... :)
Regards, Steinsplitter
No comment about Gerard Meijssen's <grin> comment. It is explaining itself perfectly.
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 21:16:37 +1000 From: cfranklin@halonetwork.net To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect's first birthday
On 12 August 2015 at 14:41, Bohdan Melnychuk base-w@yandex.ru wrote:
... It has a trail of bad usage it is connected with. ...
I'm not sure I agree with that. There are two known uses. The first
one,
where a software tool was locked in over the consensus of the community
was
a "bad usage" I'll agree; if anything the hamfisted way that the whole situation was handled just made matters much worse. The second use, locking a page on Wikidata where serious outages were being caused to another project, strikes me as a far more reasonable use of the tool.
The
fact that that usage seems to have been largely unknown until today, and didn't garner any controversy, seems to indicate to me that the community doesn't find it to be a troubling case.
I'm all for having a discussion over the community's expectations on when this tool will be used, but let us not walk down a path of hyperbole and exaggeration.
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