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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:19 am
Maxim adds the 6th vote to take the bits.

Cue Joe putting his admin affairs in order, including upping the protection on his user pages...

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Votes on recusals Under the policy for recusal of arbitrators Arbitration Committee voted on recusals from this case for members Firefly (talk · contribs) and HJ Mitchell (talk · contribs). The arbitrators subject to the vote recused on it. The committee voted against recusal for both. A vote on To...

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I don't actually care whether or not Arbcom takes this case, but I do care that we have allowed this situation to occur without addressing the underlying behavioural problem of editors acting as though a years-old COI (which could have been addressed by an email to Arbcom) was more important than t...

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Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:13 pm

C&B wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:37 pm
It looks like Mother of Jabbas (T-C-L) chose the right time to make his bones
I think I would ask about the more obvious COIs, but maybe Mother of Jabbas is more cunning than I am.

Not so cunning - Mother of Jabbas is now blocked.

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I'm sure Ashley would prefer a gender neutral term for sockmaster.

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And SOMEONE asked "can we have some pseudononymous officers representing the organization?" Any experts on Belgian nonprofit law lurking here ready to answer that one? Can WMLGBT tell the King of Belgium that its board of directors consists of "Speedoguy", "Teahot", "Lux" and "M-Fax"? Not only will...

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The $100,000 or whatever for the conference is now being spent on 3 Zoom calls in May. The Meta page about it is still a draft. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/QW2023 There is nothing in the 2022 'annual report' for the user group. They haven't had a meeting since May 2022. https://meta.wikimedia.o...

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 25, 2022 6:37 am
The WMF is a nonprofit that has grossly exceeded its remit

Who is Yngvadottir?
I continue to be consistently impressed.

I do like that she included her standard "This edit is not an endorsement of the WMF" disclaimer as part of her edit summary for that post.

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Fae may not be involved*, but the desire for that sweet, sweet WMF money lives on:

Maybe US$4,500,000/year of Wikimedia Movement funds should support LGBT+ causes

*At least, not under that name.

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Apparently pointing out Fae's exceedingly obvious socking is now valdalism. at least according to guard dog Owen. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:QW2022&diff=prev&oldid=23620539 Interesting that he didn't revert Peltarion's question as well... but also interesting he ddn't answer ...

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Apparently pointing out Fae's exceedingly obvious socking is now valdalism. at least according to guard dog Owen. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:QW2022&diff=prev&oldid=23620539 Interesting that he didn't revert Peltarion's question as well... but also interesting he didn't answer...

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Right now it has no legal incorporation and has received either no money, or probably less than $5000 in the last 10 years. . That one of the would-be organisers doesn’t know whether it’s no money or less than $5000, doesn’t inspire confidence. That the would-be organisation has no legal incorporat...

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Midsize Jake wrote: ↑
Mon Mar 14, 2022 4:28 am
Someone should tell him to pay her in new bank-notes, just to see how pissed-off she gets.

Or bitcoin.

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Due to the overwhelming demand at launch, we are currently rate-limited on onboarding new users to the platform. We are working to increase signup capacity for onboarding and will continue to update this status as capacity increases. Yeah, this is going to be huuuge... To be fair, it wouldn't take ...

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The Ur-Quan are a fictional race of predatory alien caterpillars While one might expect a 'featured article' to include an illustration of its subject, and one might think that if such an illustration wasn't available, perhaps it shouldn't be featured . But well done, Wikipedia, clearly showing off...

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Smells like cleaning house. You really need to look at your legal team for some people to 86. Talk to the dingbat that asked 35 people before she offered a contract to a disgraced former board member in a sweetheart dealio. ... and all (most) of those 35 who thought it was okay shouldn’t be far beh...

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I just saw this on-wiki and can’t be bothered to read this whole thread. Will this actually provide some kind of benefit and if so, to whom? Please answer in 500 words or less. The benefit is twofold: A miscellaneous WMF worker (or workers) will achieve a KPI, thus giving them a performance rating ...

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Maybe Ashley will auction it off as an NFT?

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Mysterious attendee with the initial A might be interested in becoming Programmes Director, Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion , though.

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Scuto's knowledge of Fae's areas of concern seems to predate the registration of the account. Hmmm.

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Mike's had enough , although it took an awful lot of convincing. What is it about the old guard of WMUK (Mike, Andy Mabbett, Roger Bamkin, Robin Owain and Ashley van Haeften) that they regularly provide such... entertainment? Apparently "i'm out of here" doesn't mean he's quitting Wikipedia, just t...

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Time to warm up the barby. Mike Peel seems to be off on an autistic walkabout around unifying en.wp, commons and wikidata. I have a policy of not engaging with/replying to Fram, since their comments are often deliberately inflammatory (as indeed this one is). Just to be clear, the edits are semi-au...

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Fortunately for Wikimedia LGBT+ user group, new user Scuto has stepped in to take on some of the administrative tasks previously undertaken by Fae.

In fact, it seems Scuto's only contributions are to the Wikimedia LGBT+ user group. Not suspicious at all.

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Perhaps this thread should be renamed? It doesn’t seem fair to Bill Stevenson...

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I very much doubt that Fæ could ever sock successfully. He'd reveal his hand in no time. Ashley’s identity - and his desire for financial reward - is too tied up in his millions of uploads for there to be any point in him socking. Copyfraud was the exception, but he stopped that as soon as there wa...

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Ashley Van Haeften also remained Chair of WMUK for a while after he was banned from enwiki.

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The Adversary wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 19, 2021 3:31 am
Is there any reason we should bother voting here?

A voted purely for the fleeting joy of not voting for several of them.

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 17, 2021 7:13 am
How many of these principles did Maria Sefidari Huici violate during her tenure?

Hmmm... fewer than Jimmy Wales, but slightly more than Doc James?

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Someone needs to add Fae to that list.

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This edit by patriotic Welshperson AlwynapHuw includes this (now removed) bizarre gem: Gwerful Mechain (talk+ · tag · contribs · logs · filter log · block log · CA) She wrote a very erotic poem about the Vagina, I can understand why that poem was anonymous. Maybe 'anonymous' means something differe...

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This edit by patriotic Welshperson AlwynapHuw includes this (now removed) bizarre gem: Gwerful Mechain (talk+ · tag · contribs · logs · filter log · block log · CA) She wrote a very erotic poem about the Vagina, I can understand why that poem was anonymous. Maybe 'anonymous' means something differe...

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It seems WMUK's Welsh wikigrifter Robin Owain ( Llywelyn2000 ) has been caught sockpuppeting for a second time. Except that it wasn't necessarily sockpuppeting: it was sockpuppeting, meatpuppeting and/or tag-teaming. Or, if you prefer the explanation offered by the definitely-not-sockpuppets-meatpup...

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In completely unrelated news, the privacy of participants and what they talk about has suddenly become an issue for the good folks at Wikimedia LGBT+. At the September meeting Attendees We had 6 participants present (names surpressed due to privacy concerns) Notes The notes from this month were supp...

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No, she should have her spouse join us on Wikipediocracy.

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 08, 2021 7:52 pm
Ashley and his happy band of grifters.

I wonder when the others will realise that this isn't really Wikimedia LGBT+, it's WikimediaAvH?

It's the Chapters Association all over again.

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I’m presuming that when a T&S report is made their first move is to tell the putative victim to stop engaging on the websites until the investigation is complete.

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Ashley wrote:You know I get transphobic abuse and death threats.

I missed the bit where Ashley or his online persona Fæ transitioned - could someone post a diff?

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Ashley wrote: ...(happy to be corrected)...

I doubt that very much - given history, if you do correct him, he’ll argue with you, demand diffs and links to policy to support your correction, until you tire of trying to correct him.

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So, in short order, the WMF has, without community input: * Postponed the election for a year while the Chair was credibly accused of self-dealing * Changed the number of seats on the board * Changed the proportion of seats that are 'community elected' * Changed the mechanism from electing to selec...

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Without Comfort wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 05, 2021 9:38 pm
Sefidari Huici wants to step away. I don't think she would want the job. If nothing else, she would think about the impact on her wife.

She accepted the consultancy. That doesn’t show the best judgement on her part.

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Generally speaking, if you're checking with 30 people to see if something you want to do is legal, you should probably sit down and think about if you ought to be doing that something. Generally speaking, if you're checking with 30 people to see if something you want to do is legal, you should prob...

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If you care about free software you should care that the Board of Directors of the FSF is elected by the "voting members" and that who they are is apparrntly a tightly guarded secret. This is not an appropriate form of governance for one of the most important single points of failure in free softwa...

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Wed Mar 10, 2021 6:24 pm
Maria Sefidari Huici will be the next CEO of the WMF

...and Laura Hale can be her Chief of Staff.

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AndyTheGrump wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 13, 2020 2:12 pm
Ooh look, a can of worms.

I'm sure Ashley van Haeften will follow this up... not that he reads this forum, of course.

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It's one of our tourist gems, but search Fox Glacier on Wikipedia and you'll find stories about helicopter crashes. The page for New Plymouth’s amazing Pukeiti gardens has no photos, and the spectacular Kaiteriteri Beach in Abel Tasman is especially sad with only three sentences. New Zealand has a ...

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"...for the 1st time recently..."

The writing certainly reflects Wikipedia quality.

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Poetlister wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 09, 2020 8:36 pm
It's interesting that they refer to articles of ephemeral interest. The usual Wikipedia line is that nothing is ephemeral; once notable then notable forever.

Except for Sarah Stierch.

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WikiTribune / WT-Social must be about due for a restructure/refocus/refund - why not WTS-Covid?

(Actually WTF-Covid might be a better name. )

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And Ashley opens up another front! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/華夏1000 He's scored a bullseye. Checkuser found that four of the five accounts he names (plus two more) are indeed socks of a known puppet master. Let's not rebuke him for being right on this oc...

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And Ashley opens up another front!
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Comm ... ase/華夏1000

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