Dear Coren
I think you are mistaken. The paid editing amendment was added in 2014
(16th June) during Lila's term.[1] Lila took over the reins from Sue
on 1 June 2014.
I'm appalled that you credit Sue for the steps taken (under Lila) to
widen the volunteer base by exposing many rotten apples, including
through better technology.
I equally state with certainty that your claim re the WMF's not
preventing in any way the investigations is tremendously flexible with
the truth and is completely divorced from reality. The enforcement of
the Terms of Use lies exclusively with the WMF. There is no point
repeating here the legal defeats WMF has suffered in many
international courts during Sue's regime. We can discuss this
privately.
[1]
BTW, its unclear how someone "tangentially involved" can state facts
with "absolute certainty".
Dave
On 3/1/16, Marc A. Pelletier <marc(a)uberbox.org> wrote:
On 16-03-01 03:57 AM, David Emrany wrote:
What nobody is prepared to acknowledge is that
only under Lila's term
some of the most blatant and egregious instances of coordinated PR
socking and on-wiki abuses could come out.
I was tangentially part of the investigation that led to many of those
things being ferreted out and I can tell you with absolute certainty:
(a) The Foundation did not in any way prevent those investigations for
abuse in the past (before or after Lila), so saying that "only under
Lila's term [they] could come out" is at best misguided.
(b) The single biggest help we have had in being able that kind of abuse
were the revised terms of use, that were put in place in 2012 and
started being worked on at least a year prior. As far as I know the ED
had minor to no involvement in this - that was a long-overdue initiative
from Legal. But even *if* it had ED involvement, it would have been all
Sue.
(c) The foundation has always given volunteers support when we needed
Legal/Comm help getting rid of significant abuse, for as long as I can
remember (At least since 2008). The help they were *able* to give at
the time was more limited because the LCA team was tiny and overworked,
but they always tried their best.
So, nobody is "prepared to acknowledge" your assertion because it has no
relationship with reality.
-- Coren / Marc
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