Hello Isaac,
Thank's a lot for your message. The affiliate I belong to has already requested more details on that sanction. However, from the information already provided, it is directly related to an AffCom resolution dating back from 8 April 2018, without any relation to me.
For the moment I am not requesting anything to AffCom, as AffCom has not even had the decency of informing me of the sanction, and I had to know about it by 3rd parties in a very embarrassing and outrageous situation. Also, after several situations where the AffCom was caught distorting the truth, when not blatantly lying, as it is now, always failing to substantiate their accusations when requested, I do not deem it to be a trustworthy body - and the fact that AffCom was left unchecked and unaccountable for years, even empowered to decide itself its own members, certainly is not alien to this state of affairs. So I'm not presuming good faith on AFfCom as well, and I'm requesting a formal investigation on this and former similar situations involving AffCom.
I do not care much about the sanction itself, though it is quite annoying, especially to my affiliate, but the fact that it was decided in secrecy, and its blatant fraudulent nature, with false accusations involving my person, is quite enraging and outrageous.
Best, Paulo
Isaac Olatunde reachout2isaac@gmail.com escreveu no dia terça, 7/05/2019 à(s) 09:54:
Hi Paulo,
You said you got your information from a WMF source. Right? Is there no possibility for you to ask the same WMF source who to direct this question to? Have you tried to ask AffCom, WMF SuSa or the community engagement team?
In any case, I wish you all the best.
Isaac
On Mon, May 6, 2019, 10:20 AM Benjamin Ikuta <benjaminikuta@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not familiar with this specific situation, but I agree that more transparency and accountability would be good.
On May 6, 2019, at 12:40 AM, Paulo Santos Perneta <
paulosperneta@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello,
A few days ago the Wikimedia affiliate I belong to was officially
informed,
by a WMF source, that I'm being subject to a until now unknown
sanction,
with an accusation from AffCom I can only describe as baseless and fraudulent, relating to a a situation between two affiliates, dealt
with
by
AffCom more than one year ago, of which I was never part of, occurred
more
than one year ago. I was never informed of this.
This is not the first time AffCom engages in this sort of appalling behavior. As far as I know, WMPT is still waiting for the accusations
made
by AffCom last year, which led to its suspension, to be substantiated. AffCom never substantiated anything related to that, with the excuse
of a
need for secrecy.
How, I ask you all as members of the Movement, how come the Wikimedia Movement allowed for such a secretive, arbitrary, apparently unchecked
and
very much powerful institution to grow and thrive like this in its
middle,
overseeing and effectively controlling the relation of all of us (both affiliates and individuals) and the WMF?
More important than that, what can be done about this? Where one can
appeal
to, when presented with such fraudulent, baseless, secretive, unsubstantiated accusations by a body which was supposed to be above
all
suspicion?
Can an internal inquiry be demanded somewhere at the Wikimedia
Foundation
over the activities and decisions of AffCom, in the same way we do with suspicious activity by checkusers and supervisors, with the Ombudsman Commission?
Looking forward for any help and insight on this,
Paulo - DarwIn Wikimedia Portugal _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
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