Dear Coren I think you are mistaken. The paid editing amendment was added in 2014 (16th June) during Lila's term.[1] Lila took over the reins from Sue on 1 June 2014.
I'm appalled that you credit Sue for the steps taken (under Lila) to widen the volunteer base by exposing many rotten apples, including through better technology. I equally state with certainty that your claim re the WMF's not preventing in any way the investigations is tremendously flexible with the truth and is completely divorced from reality. The enforcement of the Terms of Use lies exclusively with the WMF. There is no point repeating here the legal defeats WMF has suffered in many international courts during Sue's regime. We can discuss this privately. [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Terms_of_Use&type=revision&diff=98138&oldid=90463 BTW, its unclear how someone "tangentially involved" can state facts with "absolute certainty". Dave On 3/1/16, Marc A. Pelletier <m...@uberbox.org> wrote: > On 16-03-01 03:57 AM, David Emrany wrote: >> What nobody is prepared to acknowledge is that only under Lila's term >> some of the most blatant and egregious instances of coordinated PR >> socking and on-wiki abuses could come out. > > I was tangentially part of the investigation that led to many of those > things being ferreted out and I can tell you with absolute certainty: > > (a) The Foundation did not in any way prevent those investigations for > abuse in the past (before or after Lila), so saying that "only under > Lila's term [they] could come out" is at best misguided. > > (b) The single biggest help we have had in being able that kind of abuse > were the revised terms of use, that were put in place in 2012 and > started being worked on at least a year prior. As far as I know the ED > had minor to no involvement in this - that was a long-overdue initiative > from Legal. But even *if* it had ED involvement, it would have been all > Sue. > > (c) The foundation has always given volunteers support when we needed > Legal/Comm help getting rid of significant abuse, for as long as I can > remember (At least since 2008). The help they were *able* to give at > the time was more limited because the LCA team was tiny and overworked, > but they always tried their best. > > So, nobody is "prepared to acknowledge" your assertion because it has no > relationship with reality. > > -- Coren / Marc > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: 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 New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
