Re: [Wikitech-l] Code of Conduct committee meeting at Wikimania

Thanks for the update. It's great to see the CoC processes improving transparency and potentially accountability to the community. It's worth noting how old the discussions are, with comments dating back more than a year ago, especially in the context of how relatively young the committee and the

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit outage

Thanks to everyone who helped sort this out. In some ways, the vandalism neatly demonstrates how Wikimedia projects rely on trust. When these things happen, it is a nice reminder that our open values mean that we should take a light approach to security whenever the potential exposure is always

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

On Thu, 16 Aug 2018 at 03:14, bawolff wrote: > Thank your for your well considered response. I know this can be an > emotionally draining topic and I appreciate your engagement. > > Thanks, > Brian This has been one of the longer email discussion threads, itself made controversial due to

Re: [Wikitech-l] My Phabricator account has been disabled

The CoC does not exist in a vacuum and is itself ultimately only has any authority through the largess of the WMF board and its resolutions. The Code of Conduct Committee is dangerously arrogant if its members believe they are independent of the WMF's policies or WMF legal. For the Committee to

Re: [Wikitech-l] coc ban

ed, 8 Aug 2018 at 15:27, Andre Klapper wrote: > > On Wed, 2018-08-08 at 15:22 +0100, Fæ wrote: > > Wales has never retracted nor apologised for writing on the English > > Wikipedia that a statement by Heilman was "utter fucking bullshit". > > English Wikipedia is not

Re: [Wikitech-l] coc ban

Saying "WTF" is by default acceptable for all projects unless the WMF board agrees a resolution and enforces it on its own board members, as well as volunteers and WMF employees. If anyone is blocked or banned under the Technical CoC for using similar language which has been published by WMF board

Re: [Wikitech-l] FW: Warning on behalf of Code of conduct committee

t; > I am not worried about the lack of transparency of the TCC, because > actually it should be done that way to protect its participants (cfr. > Chatham House Rule), but of course they could document how they reached > difficult decisions. It could be useful to assess future cases. > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] FW: Warning on behalf of Code of conduct committee

The lack of transparency of TCC actions and assessment processes is troubling. TCC was supposed to be a means to handle serious misuse or harassment, not to use steel boots to stamp out all "non-positivity". Trivial cases like this should best be handled firstly by off project grown-up mediation,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Gerrit as a shared community space

+1 The CoC was supposed to encourage collegiate behavior, not to be an excuse for those with big white hats to /force/ others to "respect my authoritah", to quote South Park. Folks, get a grip. Seeing bad faith accusations and character attacks against long term contributors, is not why any of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Can/should my extensions be deleted from the Wikimedia Git repository?

Yep. If anything, the consensus here demonstrates the opposite. Fae On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, 17:42 John, wrote: > > Where? So far it's been a few individuals. > > > Here, here. Can you please cite the clear community decision you are > referencing? Just because a few users took unilaterally

Re: [Wikitech-l] Getting a local dump of Wikipedia in HTML

On 3 May 2018 at 19:54, Aidan Hogan wrote: > Hi all, > > I am wondering what is the fastest/best way to get a local dump of English > Wikipedia in HTML? We are looking just for the current versions (no edit > history) of articles for the purposes of a research project. > >

Re: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in: Get your tasks for young contributors prepared

Do we support any equivalent events which positively encourage contributors from other age groups? Fae https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LGBT+ http://telegram.me/wmlgbt On 3 Oct 2017 22:49, "Andre Klapper" wrote: > (An early heads-up that Google Code-in 2017 has been

Re: [Wikitech-l] Recommending Firefox to users using legacy browsers?

On 31 August 2017 at 21:37, bawolff wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 8:14 PM, Legoktm wrote: >> Hello, >> >> This was something that came up during "The Big Open" at Wikimania, when >> Katherine Maher talked with Ryan Merkley (CEO of Creative

Re: [Wikitech-l] Status of Technical Collaboration Guidance discussion

A biennial planning process makes a lot of sense, so long as transparency and accountability is not lost. In the planning year, the most resource efficient way of doing this stuff is to make strategy and operations 6 months out of phase, ensuring that the management and executive don't exhaust