Lila, I hope you are aware of the issues being described in this thread. Would you please state your views on this situation?
Pine On Aug 10, 2014 6:09 PM, "Tomasz W. Kozłowski" <twkozlow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11 August 2014 01:05, John Lewis wrote: > > > The people who were actually responsible were the community. Erik was > > acting in a preventative role to prevent further disruption not punish > > administrators. > > Erik was acting in a manner that is totally disgraceful. He should > have never used his force to revert DaB. The way that DaB. > "implemented" the results of that RfC were incorrect, and the > community of the German Wikipedia were perfectly able to revert his > edits themselves once they realized what the effects were — without > the need to involve the WMF at any point. > > > * A new user right to prevent disruption > > Implemented without any community consultation whatsoever, on a global > scale even though the problem was occurring only on the German > Wikipedia. > > > * A user has been desysoped by the community for no reason on dewiki > > Nothing of the sort has happened yet. > > > And who are we blaming? Erik. Why? Because we are a bunch of stubborn > > children. We don't get what we want so we are kicking and screaming to > get > > it but in the end; we don't and we then accuse our parent (WMF) of being > > too harsh, mean and taking away something we like but do not deserve. > > The only person that should be blamed by what happened is Erik. He is > a WMF employee, he is an experienced Wikimedian, and he should have > realized what would be the result of his actions. > > Instead, he went ahead with his show of force, and escalated a > situation that would have fixed itself in a matter of hours. > > Even if MMV was disabled for a day, nothing would have happened. Now > shit's happened, and it will be damn hard to regain the trust that was > lost over this absurd stretching of muscles. > > PS For what it's worth: I like MultimediaViewer. I use it, and I > opposed the idea that a small community of volunteers can decide to > disable it for anonymous editors. But what Erik has done is totally > unacceptable, and contrary to the supposed cooperation between the WMF > and the volunteer communities. > > -- > Tomasz > > _______________________________________________ > 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> _______________________________________________ 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>
