I’m sorry, but no, even the evidence that Jimmy Wales is a worst human
being on the entire planet Earth wouldn’t make some kinds of language
(like the one you are quoting from) acceptable in a collaborative
environment. Of course, he should apologise, but CoCC doesn’t have any
authority about that, so it’s not reasonable to discuss it in such context.
Please do not derail the conversation about this particular incident by
going on a tangent about unrelated issues or ‘snowflakes’. The problem
here is the repercussions too harsh for the language that is being
quoted, not some general idea that MediaWiki development spaces should
have some kind of rules.
Oleg
On 08/08/2018 17:44, [email protected] wrote:
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 members, this should be grounds for a
successful appeal unless and until the same standards are seen to be
applied to WMF board members along with the same block and ban
actions.
Just in case readers here missed the precedent set in 2016, Wales has
never retracted nor apologised for writing on the English Wikipedia
that a statement by Heilman was "utter fucking bullshit". Both parties
were Wikimedia Foundation board members at the time, and are board
members now.[1][2]
Links
1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&diff=701673700&oldid=701673178
2.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8q8gvg/wikipedias-secret-google-competitor-search-engine-is-tearing-it-apart
Fae
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