Hi
I would like to bring up an issue with office actions that was brought up
elsewhere. There has been an issue on commons with User:Saibo tagging
images from WMF staff. He disagreed with a particular office action taken
by WMF staff. He gives an explanation with relevant diffs here[1]. The
issue
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
So, can you say what it is about this that made you bring it up now, in
July?
I heard about this issue fairly recently, on a private list. So, you
probably already know more than I do.
I really don't care about the specifics of
On 3 July 2012 19:08, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
I love it when people send e-mails to the public list, and purposefully
refrain from actually discussing the actual events at issue. You have to
read 3/4ths of the e-mail to get an idea that it's about someone being
blocked, but you still
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
Office actions have historically been used to blank or delete pages, the
current listed policy on Meta and commons[3][4] make no mention of Global
bans or blocking a user locally, or even globally. I have not known for
office
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Deryck Chan deryckc...@wikimedia.hk wrote:
On 3 July 2012 19:08, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
I love it when people send e-mails to the public list, and purposefully
refrain from actually discussing the actual events at issue. You have to
read 3/4ths of
Phillipe, a global ban, even by the policy proposed, requires more than 2
communities agreeing that the ban is necessary, as far as I know, even if
we count the office staff as one community that is only one.
At least the guy know why he was blocked? And what is the guarantee we have
that
No, that was clumsy wording. I did not mean that it could have been used
in THIS instance; I meant that in future instances, I can see circumstances
where it could be used.
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Philippe Beaudette
Director, Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Philippe Beaudette
phili...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
To the best of my knowledge, no.
And that's precisely why we would like a global ban policy implemented. We
would prefer an established, community-monitored process that we can turn
to when at all possible (and
is someone's off-wiki opinion or behavior or even criminal past, grounds
for a block?
In my opinion, yes. I have carried out many blocks (and bans) based partly
on the off-wiki behaviour of an editor. It's really only necessary in very
serious cases involving violence, stalking, child
On 03/07/2012 3:23 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
I would ask about a hypothetical, is someone's off-wiki opinion or
behavior or even criminal past, grounds for a block?
It may well be. Both for our protection and that of other editors.
There are cases of real, dangerous persons using Wikipedia to
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