On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Austin Hair <adh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Can you sum up what you're trying to accomplish in one sentence >> > > Well, fairly close to one sentence: > > English Wikipedia is seeing a shift in how many longtime banned users are > regarded, commanding substantial valuable attention from WMF trustees, > staff, and volunteers. This has been brought about largely by a single > individual, whose megaphone was his ability to trade on the new Executive > Director's name. Instead of addressing that, many people -- some in > leadership positions -- are wringing their hands over minor personal > slights (i.e., the suggestion that somebody somewhere commented on > somebody's personal relationship.)
Not only is that nowhere close to one sentence, but it doesn't explain what you want. > or refrain from dragging this list through yet another round of this topic? > > Regardless of whether this list gets dragged through it, the English > Wikipedia community, some of the WMF Board of Trustees, and some of the WMF > staff are already getting dragged through it, and I don't see any signs of > that changing. I don't think it's a good idea to ignore this apparently > escalating situation on this email list. Are we subscribed to the same list? It looks to me like everyone else here has moved on. I urge you to do the same. Austin _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
