Leader ID: 3781c9 July 11, 2017, 3:57 p.m. No.330963   🗄️.is 🔗kun

TDA found some drama.

http://wikipediareview.proboards.com/thread/417/black-kite

 

Here is the short version.

> Basically, an editor called Max Browne who has been on the site over ten years got in a bit of trouble because in several edit summaries he referred to PayPal founder Peter Thiel as a "creep" while removing various New Zealand categories

> Black Kite came barrelling in with a block and some insulting commentary. All of it is just him repeatedly referring to Browne, in multiple places, as a child or telling him to "grow up" even after it was suggested this was uncivil of Black Kite.

> Worse yet is when the editor of ten years complained about Black Kite's behavior, four admins and two wannabes jumped in to defend Black Kite wholeheartedly, with the wannabes and three of the admins repeating the insult and one going further by likening Browne's behavior to a tantrum.

Leader ID: 3781c9 July 15, 2017, 7:40 p.m. No.330969   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Big drama on the French Wikipedia!

 

The WMF cut funding to the French Wikipedia by half after Harmonia Amanda quit in a dispute over the interpretation of the "diversity code of conduct" and other troubles were going on.

 

Translation of GorillaWarfare's timeline:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-July/088012.html

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-July/088015.html

 

Juicy bits:

 

  • February 2, 2015 - Nathalie Martin hired her husband Cyrille Bertin as finance and participation advisor

  • June 27 2016 - Bannergate - the director and president added a banner without following the rules. Benoît Prieur resigned in protest. In December Prieur would get a letter from a law firm.

  • January 16, 2017 - Harmonia quits Wikimedia France over the diversity code of conduct.

  • February 16, 2017 - WMF opens an investigation into harassment of Harmonia by the French Wikipedia and threatens to revoke their grant agreement.

  • January and February 2017 - Envel Le Hir, Pierre-Antoine Le Page, and board chair Caroline Becker resign, Becker doing so for legal reasons in the Harmonia case.

  • March-April 2017 - Cyrille Bertin becomes Secretary General while his wife Nathalie Martin is still Executive Director

  • April-May 2017 - Pierre-Selim Huard and Jean-Frédéric Berthelot resign.

  • 4 May 2011 - Émeric Vallespi ascribes the resignations to "an exceptional threat to the organisation due to non-respect of the obligations in civil and criminal law upon the leaders of the association" not as "political dissension within the Board".

  • 11 May 2017 - The mailing list admin removes "a large number of members and contractors" from the mailing list. Vallespi accuses 3 of the resigning board members of putting the association in danger.

  • 12 May 2017 - Wikipedia France starts shit with Wikipedia Argentina by dissing the Argentine MOOC

  • 14 May 2017 - The WMF Funds Dissemination Committee cuts the budget of Wikipedia France in half. Local volunteer coordinators organize a meeting in response, where a demand is made for the board's resignation. Martin claims that the funding cut was punishment for the Harmonia case.

 

> When some people realized that the investigation (for harassment - editor's note) was not credible as initially announced, because it did not answer to any fair and transparent process. It was abandoned and replaced by an an outrageously negative assessment that goes so far as to worry about the sustainability of Wikimedia France!

 

The remaining board of French Wikipedia published an open letter accusing "some members of the Wikimedia community" of "destabilization and denigration" and "refusal of dialogue and their contempt for the rules that govern our organization", pledged to blacklist these unnamed people, and threatened them with legal action. They also accused their former community liaison Jules Xénard of something

and accused former Wikimedia France president Christophe Henner of unspecified misbehavior.

https://medium.com/@metasj/a-recent-letter-from-wmfrs-board-annotated-d8e19c2bc0b

 

Chris Keating calls for revoking their charter.

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-July/088008.html

 

Statement by Katy Love, WMF Director of Resources

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-July/088014.html

 

WO thread: http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=7980&start=50

Leader ID: 3781c9 July 18, 2017, 7:14 p.m. No.330983   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Salvidrim applied for bureaucratship. 12 people switched their votes from Support to Oppose after GorillaWarfare revealed that Salvidrim had participated in a "What's the worst crime you ever committed before you turned ten?" thread and had a fetish for urinating in public places. Jorm jumped in to call him racist and PeterTheFourth called for his admin rights to be revoked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Requests_for_bureaucratship/Salvidrim!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2016/Candidates/Salvidrim!/Questions#Questions_from_GorillaWarfare

https://archive.is/bmJb3

Leader ID: 3781c9 Aug. 5, 2017, 8:34 a.m. No.331021   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Jytdog attacks SlimVirgin

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Charlie_Gard_case

 

Some time ago Wikipedia banned the Daily Mail. SlimVirgin ignored that decision and cited the Daily Mail on the Charlie Gard article. When Jytdog told her that was not allowed, she accused Jytdog of working for a PR firm. Jytdog also accuses her of biased editing.

> Since her first edits at the page, SlimVirgin has trying to create a frame and try to force things into it.

 

SlimVirgin uses tl;dr as a defense, canvasses another user, and demands to be removed from the complaint against her.

> I'm going to let the length of the above speak for itself. Pinging Coretheapple. I'd appreciate if it someone would remove my name from the heading. SarahSV (talk) 07:29, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

 

Two of Wikipedia's most politically powerful editors are at ANI. Let's see who takes sides.

 

Johnuniq ignores the complaint and condemns Jytdog's past behavior in other cases.

Ealdgyth calls this "a classic case of bringing a content dispute to ANI."

Coretheapple, Jusdafax, DynaGirl, and MontanaBW call for a boomerang against Jytdog.

 

Only Kingofaces43 supports Jytdog's position.

 

Masem tries to be neutral and suggests that maybe it might have been troutworthy for SlimVirgin to continue accusing Jytdog of being a paid PR operative after he denied it.

Power~enwiki says there is nothing sanction worthy here.

Kingsindian describes the diffs as "mistakes"

 

An IP with a grudge, 49.195.121.88, attacks Jytdog for his past behavior.

IP 121.216.192.249 accused Jytdog of hating women. Beyond My Ken feels forced to out Jytdog as a woman because that matters more to Wikipedia than whether rules are being violated, so Jytdog is forced to out himself as male to correct the record.

 

JudeccaXIII put himself on a fast track to being banned:

> I just need to express a few of my concerns. Let's start with SlimVirgin's username being removed from the title of this discussion. This is ANI, I've seen usernames about editors, IPs, and admins in the title of a discussion here. Even now, some of these ANI reports have usernames in the titles of a discussion. But no editor is willing to remove the names accociated with the discussion. Yet, for some reason, there was an exception for this case because of a request. My point is, no one should be getting special treatment at ANI nor hide from an ANI report about them. My other concern is SlimVirgin's first response. She didn't bother to argue with the report, instead, she pings editor Coretheapple. Then she decides to ping editor Whizz40 for what? To me, this is inappropriate WP:CANVASS. And who in the hell are these IPs? They ain't new editors asking for advice. I can understand Jytdogs's frustrations. His/Her behavior is obviously not appropriate, but neither is SlimVirgin's. — JudeccaXIII (talk) 08:36, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Leader ID: 3781c9 Aug. 26, 2017, 3:43 p.m. No.331075   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Proboards has banned Wikipedia Review

 

It was a matter of time. WO is talking about it.

http://www.wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=8214&start=50

Leader ID: 3781c9 Aug. 26, 2017, 4:54 p.m. No.331076   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Wikipediocracy collects user IPs and tries to identify users they don't like.

http://www.wikipediacritics.com/2017/03/honeypot-venus-flytraps-of-wikipedia-critics