The user who responded here made a few edits today . Look at his WV contributions (for user:Ottava Rima). He welcomes users, complains once in a while, but he hasn't actually contributed for a long time, and he explained it today on his talk page as my fault. But I was blocked for almost two years, and he still did nothing. The way he argued here is why he was blocked and banned so many times.
I hope nobody abandoned plans to use Wikiversity because of this. He is nobody and nothing there. He might make some trouble, just because that's what he does, and WV is slow to anger, but I doubt he'll get far. It's become entirely too transparent. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 22, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Brian Salter-Duke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 03:42:41PM -0500, Jeffrey Peters wrote: >> The original question was fine. The problem was that someone directed him >> elsewhere instead of trying to work with him on how to produce the content >> on Wikiversity. We've had a lot of problems with that in the past, and that >> is something everyone needs to look out for if we are going to have >> Wikiversity continue. It is a dying project because groups keep poaching >> our members. > > Maybe people are leaving because the project is dying. I have been > dormant on wikiversity for a long time, in part because I now have less > time for all WMF foundation projects, but also because of several > weaknesses of the project and in part because of attitudes like yours > here that are rather aggressive. It is a free project for volunteers. > The word poaching should never be used in relation to those volunteers. > After receiving no posts here for months, I was rather shocked to read > all the posts that greeted me this morning here in Australia. > > Bduke > >> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Nkansah Rexford >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> @Jefrey, I'll simply advice you don't take this discussion personal. I >>> hope we don't drag this discussion farther than it should be. >>> >>> This thread has been dry for a period of time. Joe started a converstation >>> I thought will keep things going, but its seems, according to Jefrey, he >>> did that wrongly. >>> >>> Find accepted. Let Wikiversity thread continue free from all policy >>> violations then. >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Jeffrey Peters < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm Ottava Rima, which would be known by most Wikiversity regulars. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Nkansah Rexford < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> @Jefrey Who are you? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Jeffrey Peters < >>>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Mailing lists are not based on consensus, and the Foundation would >>>>>> never allow its sites to be used to direct people to non WMF sites and >>>>>> take >>>>>> away our volunteers. >>>>>> >>>>>> Put up your account name if you do instead of merely claiming you have >>>>>> one. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Joe Corneli >>>>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Jeffrey Peters >>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>> Really? By pointing out that directing people to other sites is >>>>>>> wrong? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Yes, really, first because that policy is something you made up and it >>>>>>> does not in any way represent a consensus view, and second because >>>>>>> drowning the conversation with argument and comebacks is not the way >>>>>>> to learn anything. (Only useful if Wikiversity is implementing a >>>>>>> policy of trying to reproduce standard university politics... you know >>>>>>> what they say about that, the arguments are so heated precisely >>>>>>> because the stakes are so low.) >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Do you even have an account? Because too many people making claims >>>>>>> about it >>>>>>>> acceptable to direct others to other sites don't. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> In fact, I do. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ > > > -- > Brian Salter-Duke [email protected] > Active on English Wikipedia, Meta-Wiki, Wikiversity, and others. > [[User:Bduke]] is single user account with en:Wikipedia main account. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikiversity-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l _______________________________________________ Wikiversity-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l
