Majken - you may be referring to this, on the Mozillians Yammer:

https://www.yammer.com/mozillians/#/threads/show?threadId=518381225&messageId=518381225

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:57 PM, Majken Connor <[email protected]> wrote:

> Reps portal uses OpenStreetMap. I believe before we had the user editable
> fields you had to select a location on a map (though my memory could be
> failing me on this). I have a memory of people complaining about it turning
> up as Albania, but I couldn't find anything in my email history to confirm
> that memory. It's possible that OpenStreetMap used to get this wrong, and
> these Reps haven't updated their location since the portal was updated to
> allow you to input the location yourself.
>
> I've added Pierros who can correct me on any of this.
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 7:49 PM, Michael Cooper <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > I don't work on or with the Reps site, but I took a quick look at the
> code
> > for it [0]. The location fields on the Mozilla Reps site are arbitrary
> text
> > fields that users can enter whatever they like into. It was the users
> > choice to enter this inappropriate location. This isn't a choice Mozilla
> > actively made, nor any developer in the system, but likely something that
> > the reps in question chose to enter in their profiles. I'd suggest
> > contacting the people in question personally and directly about this
> issue.
> >
> > [0]:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/mozilla/remo/blob/master/remo/profiles/models.py#L101-L103
> >
> > On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Vladimir Krstic <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Some people on Mozilla Reps have politically inappropriate City-State
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I've noticed that there are some people on Mozilla Reps site who have
> set
> > > their location as "Prishtina - Kosovo - Albania". Won't point the
> finger
> > at
> > > anyone because I'm not sure is this mistake on site form for setting
> > > location or these guys did that intentionally. Still this is absolutely
> > > inappropriate and has to be fixed as soon as possible.
> > >
> > > Let me explain why. Kosovo set as part of Albania undoubtedly presents
> > > idea of Great Albania, in other words idea of separatism under radical
> > > Islamic movement. Idea of tearing apart lands of Greece, Montenegro,
> > > Macedonia and more lands of Serbia on top of Kosovo. Separatism is
> "well"
> > > regulated by UN conventions and world law after World War Two. That
> being
> > > said it's absolutely inappropriate that this kind of ideas are
> presented
> > > through Mozilla channels. Lot of people can be offended by it, for
> > example
> > > in Ukraine, Spain, United Kingdom, and of course Balkan countries I've
> > > mentioned before. To evade any confusion because I'm from Serbia - I
> > don't
> > > say that Kosovo isn't independent or that is part of Serbia. I say that
> > is
> > > not part of Albania.
> > >
> > > There were various incidents with Albanian terrorist in Greece,
> > Macedonia,
> > > Montenegro and Serbia in last ten years and there are lot of articles
> on
> > > internet about Great Albania so this topic is easy to confirm. Right
> now
> > > when I write this Albanian terrorist from Kosovo are attacking
> Macedonia
> > > with call to tear apart these parts of Macedonia.
> > >
> > > Please work this out, investigate why these people have there location
> > set
> > > like so and fix it.
> > >
> > > Vladimir Krstic
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