Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's set up a Tor onion service for Wikipedia

2017-06-13 Thread Trillium Corsage
ell it > should be, given the pure unadulterated trash that tends to come in > whenever a Tor exit node is missed in the routine lockdowns. Risker, example of "pure unadulterated trash" edits on Wikipedia, or are we just to take your word for it? You know,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's set up a Tor onion service for Wikipedia

2017-06-11 Thread Trillium Corsage
ven't done anything bad is done by administrative hall monitors with too much time on their hands for no good reason? I am grateful though that John pledges solemnly to observe WP:BEANS. Trillium Corsage 05.06.2017, 18:44, "David Gerard" <dger...@gmail.com>: > Editing may be a tric

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moderation notice

2017-03-06 Thread Trillium Corsage
hat he may be confident it was not merely a "conversations I "say" I have had." It is accurate though that I erred by recalling that the list moderator suggested I was "trolling" when he actually used the word "baiting." Trillium Corsage > On Mon, Mar 6, 2017

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kevin Gorman has passed away

2016-08-01 Thread Trillium Corsage
. Trillium Corsage 29.07.2016, 22:26, "Ed Erhart" : > I regret to inform everyone that Kevin Gorman, a Wikipedian who was the > first Wikipedian-in-residence at a US university or college, has passed > away. There is a memorial page on Facebook, and editors are leaving > cond

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harassment and blaming the victim

2016-06-05 Thread Trillium Corsage
in this nearly completely unaccountable administrative system that attracts some of the worse kind of psychologies imaginable. Trillium Corsage 05.06.2016, 17:49, "Pine W" : > Hi Pax and Pete, > > It sounds like part of the issue in this case may be that may we nee

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2014-2015 now on-wiki

2016-05-31 Thread Trillium Corsage
f is modify and update the terms of service, give advise to the board, coordinate with WMF Trust and Safety in the banning of certain editors, and handle routine inquiries. Trillium Corsage ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Tech survey on watchlist use

2016-05-25 Thread Trillium Corsage
r? If it's not possible to selectively prohibit, how about an on/off switch, i.e. *no-one* may watchlist an editor's individual talkpage. Trillium Corsage 21.05.2016, 02:20, "Johan Jönsson" : > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Danny Horn <dh...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >>  

[Wikimedia-l] What New Thing is WMF Doing w. Cookies, & Why is Legal Involved?

2016-05-01 Thread Trillium Corsage
dex.php?title=Cookie_statement=historysubmit=revision=105722=104960. Trillium Corsage ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscrib

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open and recorded WMF Board meetings

2016-04-26 Thread Trillium Corsage
s secret HR stuff that would embarrass Lila? It doesn't seem that way to me. There've been a dozen news stories on her leaving, and none have reported it was on wonderful terms all around. So what's the big deal? Publish the minutes or say "there was no meeting, there are no

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open and recorded WMF Board meetings

2016-04-16 Thread Trillium Corsage
let it be known otherwise which trustee initiated (and which seconded) (and which opposed if any) the call for the ED's resignation. Trillium Corsage 16.04.2016, 02:23, "Risker" : > I think they already have been - by Patricio's email and public posting > stating that Lila tendered her re

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open and recorded WMF Board meetings

2016-04-15 Thread Trillium Corsage
er trustee should be criticized for violating any confidence, after all Wikimedia prides itself on transparency. Trillium Corsage 16.03.2016, 12:17, "Andreas Kolbe" : > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:13 AM, John Mark Vandenberg > wrote: > >>  On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:51 AM, Sara

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open and recorded WMF Board meetings

2016-03-03 Thread Trillium Corsage
d decipher really is that boardmember Samuel Klein raised the motion to remove the requirement. Trillium Corsage 03.03.2016, 16:22, "Brion Vibber" : > On Mar 3, 2016 8:19 AM, "Pete Forsyth" <petefors...@gmail.com> wrote: >>  Enjoying this discussion, glad to see

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 12, Issue 07 -- 17 February 2016

2016-02-19 Thread Trillium Corsage
Hang tough, Lila Tretikov. This will all pass. These people leaving blaming you, bah! You are cleaning the WMF cupboard, and that's overdue. Don't let anybody or anything psyche you out. Trillium Corsage 19.02.2016, 21:31, "Wikipedia Signpost" : > Special report: Searc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 Harassment Survey - Results Report

2016-01-30 Thread Trillium Corsage
ties. Horrendous I know and tends to shows that Arbcom and the rest of Enwiki administrative structure genuinely have a problem with women, which they are often alleged to (i.e. in Gamergate and all that). Trillium Corsage PS: A similar thing happened to editor Kiefer Wolfowitz. After seekin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

2015-12-28 Thread Trillium Corsage
perior. > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian Not necessarily disbelieving you, but can you point to a single, concrete example of a "paid editor replacing a deadlink with a link to the spam site copied from waybackmachine?" I'd like to see w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

2015-12-20 Thread Trillium Corsage
should have a look at the seamier side of (at least) English WIkipedia. There are people, particularly among the administrative set, with null interest in articles but consumed with interpersonal conflict and targeting of others. It's not a small problem

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner (again)

2015-12-02 Thread Trillium Corsage
way more important than readers." Seems pretty brazen and non-inclusive to me, and illustrative of the attitudes of the administrative set. Trillium Corsage 02.12.2015, 16:36, "Todd Allen" : > That's nice. Do you want me to explicitly say "Volunteers are more >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' blackmail scam targeting small businesses and celebrities"

2015-09-03 Thread Trillium Corsage
s advocacy articles. Or if, like Bosch Sensortec, they tended actually to be pretty good. Unfortunately the Orangemoody investigation's team has decided they must remain unavailable to the public, allegedly to protect the article subjects from repeat alleged victimization. Trillium Corsage 03.0

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' blackmail scam targeting small businesses and celebrities"

2015-09-02 Thread Trillium Corsage
and other easterners just trying to put food on the table for their kids. Trillium Corsage 02.09.2015, 21:53, "Matt Campbell" : > Glad to hear it. > > Original message > From: James Heilman > Date: 09/01/2015 10:31 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: Wikimed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?

2015-06-11 Thread Trillium Corsage
administrative achievements or are some of the bad Wikipedia participants you have blocked? Trillium Corsage 10.06.2015, 21:54, Todd Allen email clipped: Well, let's not forget the big picture. For all the bickering and squabbling it might have entailed, for all the stumbles that might have happened

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?

2015-06-11 Thread Trillium Corsage
to all: the link provided doesn't contain a sexual image, though the image under discussion must be. Trillium Corsage 11.06.2015, 19:31, Trillium Corsage trillium2...@yandex.com: Todd, since you credit yourself as a collaborative creator of a world-historic educational work, what are some

[Wikimedia-l] Moderation of Trillium Corsage, was Re: Moderation of Fae

2015-05-26 Thread Trillium Corsage
unmoderated again. Trillium Corsage 24.05.2015, 14:07, Ad Huikeshoven email clipped: Hi all and Fae, One, I'm not a moderator on this list. Two, I do support civility and friendly space policies, Three, let's assume good faith, Four, Fae asks to be unmoderated and or asks for a rationale

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Access to Private Information Policy: How Long Will This Be Left a Question Mark?

2015-04-13 Thread Trillium Corsage
of a reason for its use. And this also would immensely improve the ability to audit the logs. 13.04.2015, 01:56, Tim Starling tstarl...@wikimedia.org: On 13/04/15 00:12, Trillium Corsage wrote: text clipped for brevity ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list

[Wikimedia-l] Access to Private Information Policy: How Long Will This Be Left a Question Mark?

2015-04-12 Thread Trillium Corsage
. BUT MY QUESTION NOW is: What is the status of the policy? For example English Wikipedia just got three new checkusers: Bbb23, Callanecc, and Mike V. What information were they required to provide? Proper documents, or merely an email address and assertion that they are over 18? Trillium

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Access to Private Information Policy: How Long Will This Be Left a Question Mark?

2015-04-12 Thread Trillium Corsage
endorsed Beaudette's actions by changing the policy. I dunno if he could similarly move the board on policy he's not intimately involved with implementing, I'd say not. Okay, then. Trillium Corsage 12.04.2015, 17:20, Oliver Keyes ironho...@gmail.com: Have you considered that you might get

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board transparency (thread fork)

2015-03-16 Thread Trillium Corsage
-type stalking incidents more frequent in the future. Trillium Corsage 14.03.2015, 06:35, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com: Hi Bishakha, Pardon my forking the thread here. I have previously asked about having more transparency and openness for WMF Board meetings. From my skimming of Board minutes

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bye

2015-02-24 Thread Trillium Corsage
the matter up before you moderate the guy? Trillium Corsage ___ 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] Open Letter to Lila (Harassment Policy)

2015-02-02 Thread Trillium Corsage
data via checkuser and UTRS and so forth to anonymous administrators is creating real risks to Wikipedia editors, and that is the case I make in the open letter. Trillium Corsage ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Letter to Lila (Harassment Policy)

2015-02-02 Thread Trillium Corsage
One is a steward the other is an administrator, I may have reversed their roles, but they are definitely the two that stalked Moiramoira. Thanks for the notification, I'll doublecheck which is which and see about correcting that. Trillium Corsage 02.02.2015, 14:55, Hong, Yena li

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Letter to Lila (Harassment Policy)

2015-02-02 Thread Trillium Corsage
it. Trillium Corsage PS: yes, I identify as male (he, his etc.). 02.02.2015, 15:03, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com: I wasted the few minutes necessary to read Trillium's blog post, and I don't recommend anyone else make that same mistake. He's taken a few incidents in a 7 year period, presented them

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation global ban policy

2015-01-20 Thread Trillium Corsage
Lfaraone, you're an English Wikipedia arbitrator only as far as I know. What gives you the authority or expertise to make assertions about the legal implications of WMF terms of use violations? Are you a WMF employee? Are you a lawyer? Trillium Corsage 20.01.2015, 04:19, LFaraone wikipe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF has lost its path

2015-01-20 Thread Trillium Corsage
to do? You seem to have misread what I said. In such a case, the WMF could advise the editor of all that privately, say publicly because of privacy or legal implications, we won't be specific, but we advised the individual privately, and that would be reasonable as far as I'm concerned. Trillium

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Superprotect user right, Comming to a wiki near you

2014-08-13 Thread Trillium Corsage
intimidated, and clearly doesn't, when a bunch of very loud people writes volumes of complaining text on discussion pages insisting that he has affronted the community. Trillium Corsage ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Advocacy Advisors] Transparency and right to be forgotten notices from search engines

2014-08-06 Thread Trillium Corsage
it. We will Streisand you. Trillium Corsage 06.08.2014, 16:11, Nathan email clipped: Thanks very much for this, Stephen and the legal team. I especially appreciate that the WMF has decided to make public the specific notifications of the use of the Right to be forgotten in the EU.[1] It's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: List administration policy

2014-07-11 Thread Trillium Corsage
, but I'll keep reading long enough to see if your below email asking for transparency on the list goes anywhere. Good luck. Trillium Corsage 11.07.2014, 11:28, Fæ fae...@gmail.com: Hi, I would like to propose that this list have a published process for post moderation, banning and appeals

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Letter to Lila Regarding Access to Non-Public Information Policy

2014-06-29 Thread Trillium Corsage
general counsel Luis Villa. I've attempted to answer those by explaining that you can have a pretty good and effective policy without having an infallible one. Trillium Corsage 29.06.2014, 07:32, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com: Trillium, I am having difficulty understanding how retaining copies

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Letter to Lila Regarding Access to Non-Public Information Policy

2014-06-27 Thread Trillium Corsage
and unaccountable administrative participants. Trillium Corsage 27.06.2014, 01:48, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org: Hi, Trillium- As I pointed out to you the last time we discussed the privacy policy[1], this issue (and the rest of the policy) were discussed extensively with the community

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Letter to Lila Regarding Access to Non-Public Information Policy

2014-06-27 Thread Trillium Corsage
potentially has some recourse if it finally comes to it. So I say the usefulness there is treating editors right and furnishing a safer environment for them, in which they are not so exposed to anonymous administrators. Thank you for your response. Trillium Corsage (by the way although

[Wikimedia-l] Open Letter to Lila Regarding Access to Non-Public Information Policy

2014-06-26 Thread Trillium Corsage
with potentially cyberstalker tools. Whatever your stance, I do call on you to speak on the question. Say yea, say nay, or say not my concern, but at least speak. Trillium Corsage ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki

[Wikimedia-l] Stop the New Privacy Policy until Lila is Thoroughly Briefed on It, Countdown 14 Hours

2014-06-05 Thread Trillium Corsage
on it by those who most understand it, like the general counsel Geoff Brigham. Trillium Corsage ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Stop the New Privacy Policy until Lila is Thoroughly Briefed on It, Countdown 14 Hours

2014-06-05 Thread Trillium Corsage
Dear Mr. Brigham, Excuse me, I should have copied you in the email I sent to the Wikimedia-l list I sent a few minutes ago, because I mentioned you in it. Here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-June/072499.html. Trillium Corsage

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Stop the New Privacy Policy until Lila is Thoroughly Briefed on It, Countdown 14 Hours

2014-06-05 Thread Trillium Corsage
it accords access to the personal-identifiable information of editors. They're going to behave better if they know they can be held accountable for their actions. Trillium Corsage 05.06.2014, 18:34, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org: Hi, Trillium and others

[Wikimedia-l] A Quick Hello from New List Subscriber

2014-06-04 Thread Trillium Corsage
of those that sign their real name to everything, and endeavor to consider that in any interaction I have with you. Signature: well let me see how my nickname shows up on the list. I selected Trillium Corsage as the name at the email service, but I typed Cloaked Citizen when I registered