Not really demonizing WMF, but healthily not trusting at face value what
they say, specially given WMF quite messy record at that.
The WMF interference in that Wikipedia community was completely out of
process, and to the moment lacking any justification worth of that name.
IMO it is OK for that community to take the measures they deem as
appropriate to prevent such kind of interference in the future.
Best.
Paulo
A sexta, 28 de jun de 2019, 11:22, Isaac Olatunde <reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com>
escreveu:
Nobody seems to be insinuating that Fram is lying.
It's just plain
stupidity to demonize the WMF's action solely on their part of the story
alone. Fram has penchant for irritating people he disagrees with and
it's possible they have crossed the line.
Recently there was an AbCom case against Rama, an English Wikipedia
administrator (now desysoped), Commons administrator and oversighter.
While the case was ongoing, Fram began to follow this user to an extent
that they began to mass-nominate for deletion the user's uploads on
Commons, a behavior the user considered as stalking and harassment. Some
users including myself requested that Fram stay away from Rama and their
uploads. A behavior like this would normally get users blocked but
nobody felt the reason to ban or blocked Fram partly because they wear the
English Wikipedia's admin hat.
This incident is barely a month ago.
I am unsure if this form part of the reasons for the ban but I have no
enough reasons to think that the ban was unjustifiable.
Regards,
Isaac
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 10:15 AM Benjamin Ikuta <benjaminikuta(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Why do you doubt Fram? What do you think happened? And why can't the WMF
say even so much as a, "That's not accurate."?
You really think he's just outright lying?
On Jun 14, 2019, at 4:03 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If you really think Fram's framing of events
here is even plausible,
let alone the story, then you're less competent than I have previously
considered you to be.
On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 18:47, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> According to Fram, the WMF told him his "interaction ban" was for
> maintenance tagging two articles, yes (and when I looked at the diffs,
the
>> maintenance tags were accurate and necessary). So, either Fram is
lying
or
>> omitting something (and the WMF, for whatever reason, is not
challenging
> him
on it), the WMF lied to Fram, or they did indeed sanction him for
what
>> they told him they sanctioned him for.
>>
>> Todd
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 4:37 AM David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>>> and you're *seriously* positing that the WMF would ban an admin for
>>> doing only what you describe?
>>>
>>> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 11:32, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>>>
>>> The only case of "harassment" apparently cited here was "I
kept
writing
>>> garbage articles, and someone kept
flagging them as garbage!
Harassment!
>>> Bad!"
>>>
>>> If you don't want your articles to be flagged as garbage, FIND YOUR
>> SOURCES
>>> PRIOR TO WRITING THEM, AND CITE THEM. That's rather a requirement
anyway.
>>> The editor in question repeatedly
failed to do that, repeatedly had
her
>>> articles flagged for failure to do
that, and regarded that as
>> "harassment"
>>> rather than her own failure to follow the English Wikipedia's
policies.
>>>> Next time, she needs to find the sources first, and write the
article
>>
only
>>> after she has them in hand.
>>>
>>> Todd
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:14 AM Robert Fernandez <
>> wikigamaliel(a)gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If someone is able to harass someone for years and nothing is done
then
>>>>> clearly community procedures are not “perfectly adequate”
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 11:36 AM Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This misses the point, as others have highlighted already.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The WMF can and /should/ globally and permanently ban
paedophiles,
>>>>>> terrorists, system hackers and people making multiple
cross-wiki
>>> death
>>>>>> threats or threats of suicide. There are perfectly good and
>>>>>> understandable reasons as to why the evidence behind these
attacks
>>> and
>>>>>> threats would be kept unpublished, it's seriously personal
or
>>> criminal
>>>>>> stuff.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The WMF making topic bans, interaction bans and limited project
>>>>>> specific bans against Wikipedians is a brand new invention,
which
>>> goes
>>>>>> against the pre-existing understanding that the WMF do not
replace
>>>>>> existing and perfectly adequate community agreed procedures for
>>>>>> banning bad behaviour on our projects. Once full time WMF
employees
>>>>>> start doing in parallel
what volunteer administrators already do,
>>> then
>>>>>> we should question why we do not *pay* volunteers administrators
the
>>>>>> same hourly rate and we
are likely to see a mass exodus of
>>>>>> administrators. After all, would you, say, deliver the post for
free
>>>>>> in your area for fun,
but thereby take away decent full time
>>>>>> employment with a guaranteed pension for your local postie?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If the reason for the WMF stepping in to ban Fram for a year is
>>>>>> because the WMF do not trust Wikipedia administrators or
Wikipedia's
>>>>>> Arbcom to take sensible
action in harassment cases, then they
should
>>>>>> be raising that honestly
and openly with Arbcom. If the English
>>>>>> Wikipedia's policies are not fit for purpose, or
implementation of
>>>>>> policy is incompetent, we need a much bigger discussion than
whether
>>>>>> Fram did something so
terrible it cannot be named, but oddly was
not
>>>>>> worth a global ban but
only the equivalent of a 12 month block on
>>>>>> Wikipedia while they are free to do whatever they feel like on
other
>>>>>> Wikimedia projects.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Fae
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> faewik(a)gmail.com
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 15:35, John Erling Blad
<jeblad(a)gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When you bad mouth other users there should be, and will
be,
>>>>>> consequences.
>>>>>>> An admin got desysoped and banned after repeated warnings?
So
>>> what? The
>>>>>>> only ting to be learned is that some people believe they can
do
>>>>> whatever
>>>>>>> they want and it has no consequences, and other people goes
>>> ballistic
>>>>>> when
>>>>>>> consequences happen.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I would have given desysoped fram and 14 days to cool off,
and if
>>> that
>>>>>> did
>>>>>>> not work out repeated with one month. Banning someone for
one
year
>>
is
>>>>> like
>>>>>> telling them to leave and don't come back. Someone at WMF is
>> clearly
>>>>> overly
>>>>>> sensitive, but not reacting would also be wrong.
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