For those trying to grasp what's going on, some more links: - Statement by the SuSa team manager, explaining the WMF viewpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_response_to_the_Wikimedia_...
- Arbcom case around the desysop/resysop of WJBscribe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests#WJBscribe
I haven't read everything in detail, but these seem the snippets most relevant to the global community. I'm still struggling to find a good summary of what the new (global) processes/policies of SuSa to address harassment in the broad sense of the word are - Jan only linked to an annual plan announcing them. But then, given the sheer amount of text, I probably missed it if anyone posted a link.
Lodewijk
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 3:16 PM Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com wrote:
Wow, that logs page is something else. Pretty ironic that Bishonen would accuse the Office account of "wheel warring", when the wheel warring policy explicitly states that reversing an Office Action is indicative of wheel warring. So I'm *sure* we'll see suitable discussions of sanctions for the knowing, planned, intentional reversal of an office action against policy, right?
Possible indications of an incipient wheel war:
- An administrator getting too distressed to discuss calmly.
- Deliberately ignoring an existing discussion in favor of a
unilateral preferred action.
- Abruptly undoing administrator actions without consultation.
- *Reversal of a Wikimedia Foundation office action
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Office_actions.*
Dan Rosenthal
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 5:06 PM effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com wrote:
Great, now we have a wheelwar going on ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&page=Fram ). I have a hard time seeing how this would help anyone.
A massive discussion where everyone tries to say something and nobody really reads everything (because how could you) is not going to lead to any constructive outcome. I hope that someone picks up the challenge and brings together the WMF and community before this spins further out of control. (I'm naively assuming that the WMF would be willing to engage at least privately in conversation if it relies on private information, or publicly if it does not).
Lodewijk
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 2:40 PM Robert Fernandez wikigamaliel@gmail.com wrote:
Framing it as "competence over politeness" is convenient for the people who do not want the latter and imagine they are the former.
It also insults the editors who have managed to do both. I know an en.wp editor who has dozens of FAs and somehow managed the herculean feat of not referring to anyone on Wikipedia using the c-word.
Framing it as "the culture of the community" leaves out of the community all of us who are sick of this behavior, including long-time veterans of the community like myself (fifteen years), and community victims of harassment asking T&S for help.
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 1:58 PM Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com
wrote:
"Before asking why WMF has banned an admin (and if Fram was not an
admin,
all these discussions would not have been done), we need to ask
ourselves
why we (other users) have allowed such an attitude without
intervening to
stop it."
First, if Fram were a well-known editor but not an admin, yes, there absolutely would be such a discussion. But as to why, the answer, very simply, is that the English Wikipedia community values competence over politeness, and probably always will. That is part of the culture of
the
community, and the WMF has no right to override that.
Todd
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 6:46 AM camelia boban <
camelia.boban@gmail.com>
wrote:
I quote David and Isaac. Harassment is a serious thing and hounding another user is out of
any
wiki
behavior. Before asking why WMF has banned an admin (and if Fram was not an
admin,
all these discussions would not have been done), we need to ask
ourselves
why we (other users) have allowed such an attitude without
intervening
to
stop it.
Camelia
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Il giorno ven 14 giu 2019 alle ore 14:32 Mister Thrapostibongles < thrapostibongles@gmail.com> ha scritto:
Fæ
[...] the pre-existing understanding that the WMF do not replace > existing and perfectly adequate community agreed procedures for > banning bad behaviour on our projects.
Unfortunately, there is ample evidence that the existing English
Wikipedia
community processes are not "perfectly adequate" for that purpose.
> If the English > Wikipedia's policies are not fit for purpose, or implementation
of
> policy is incompetent, we need a much bigger discussion
Indeed. Unfortunately the tone of the discussion here and at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_response_to_the_Wikimedia_...
suggests that the requisite discussion is now less, not more, likely to
happen or
be
productive.
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