That's not a stupid mistake to make. You hadn't heard about it, and so took it to be current news.
If you want more recent muckraking, one English Wikipedia administrator and one long-term editor who was also a Jimbo talkpage regular were banned perpetually by the WMF for unspecified "violations of the terms of use" thought by those that closely followed the cases to be suspicious interactions with child editors.
WMF is still looking to untrained and mainly anonymous arbitrators to handle its child protection responsibilities, so those bans were something of a surprise.
Trillium Corsage
11.01.2015, 10:28, "Andrea Zanni" <email clipped>:
I'm sorry, my bad.
Aubrey
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Chris Keating <email clipped> wrote:
As people have said - repeatedly - a bunch of trolls have set up a google group mailing list that appears to be Wikimedia-l and subscribed lots of people to it.
If you're subscribed then unsubscribe yourself and report it to Google. There are instructions in other messages.
However, please *don't* respond to messages from that fake mailing list on the real one, that just adds confusion and helps the trolls achieve their aims.
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Andrea Zanni <email clipped> wrote:
Date of the article says 02 Aug 2012. Why is this relevant now on this list?
Aubrey
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Toby Dollmann <email clipped> wrote:
Why ?
Have you forgotten Section 230 of Communications Decency Act ?
Toby
On 1/11/15, Gerard Meijssen <email clipped> wrote:
can someone shut this guy up? Thanks, GerardM
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