That's the question of trust: there have been too many situations recently when WMF asked us "just to believe":
- believe that there were reasons to ban somebody (Russavia) - believe that there were reasons to switch-off fundraising in Russia - believe that most readers prefer MultimediaViewer - believe that there is positive feedback and results from existing annoying banners for fundraising. I don't want to believe, I want to have transparency. rubin 2015-01-20 15:11 GMT+03:00 Chris McKenna <cmcke...@sucs.org>: > As has been explained multiple times in multiple places, the WMF have been > advised, for very good legal reasons, not to give details. > > "Believe it or not, there's a sensible reason behind our refusal to > comment: we can execute global bans for a wide variety of things (see the > Terms of Use for some examples - and no, "provoking Jimbo" is not on the > list), some of which - including child protection issues - could be quite > dangerous to openly divulge. Let's say we execute five global bans, and > tell you the reason behind four of them. Well, the remaining one is pretty > clearly for something "really bad", and open knowledge of that could > endanger the user, their family, any potential law enforcement case, and > could result in a quite real miscarriage of justice and/or someone being > placed in real physical danger. So no, we - as with most internet companies > - have a very strict policy that we do not comment publicly on the reason > for global bans. It's a common sense policy and one that's followed by - > and insisted upon - by almost every reasonable, responsible company that > executes this type of action. Philippe Beaudette, Wikimedia Foundation > (talk) 04:40, 18 January 2015 (UTC)" > > from https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:WMFOffice#Ban_to_Russavia > > Chris > > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, rubin.happy wrote: > > Bans without explanations are certainly not acceptible. >> >> rubin >> >> 2015-01-20 14:18 GMT+03:00 Ricordisamoa <ricordisa...@openmailbox.org>: >> >> It is now clear that the superprotect affair was only a preliminary move. >>> Now they hide themselves behind a collective account < >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:WMFOffice> issuing batches of >>> global >>> locks <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&; >>> type=globalauth&user=WMFOffice&year=2015&month=1> and writing >>> boilerplate >>> replies <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk: >>> WMFOffice&diff=10982297>. >>> As with the superprotect, the how is to blame, not the what. Note that I >>> do not object global locks at all. >>> What I object is the lack of a published reason for them, and the >>> community interaction that Lila called so deeply for. >>> They can play with the Terms Of Use, protecting any page on any project >>> and global-locking any account "to protect the integrity and safety of >>> the >>> site and users", actually at their sole discretion. >>> The breach of trust is complete now. The only thing that may stop me from >>> leaving the projects for good is my loyalty to the volunteer community. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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> >> > > ---- > Chris McKenna > > cmcke...@sucs.org > www.sucs.org/~cmckenna > > > The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, > but with the heart > > Antoine de Saint Exupery > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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>
