Erik Moeller resigns . . . as an enwiki admin

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Erik Moeller resigns . . . as an enwiki admin

Unread post by The Devil's Advocate » Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:02 am

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=621785650

MediaViewer ArbCom case suspended per largely meaningless WMF policy changes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... d_.28II.29

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Re: Erik Moeller resigns . . . as an enwiki admin

Unread post by EricBarbour » Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:08 am

The Devil's Advocate wrote:MediaViewer ArbCom case suspended per largely meaningless WMF policy changes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... d_.28II.29
Cowards. That place is worse than a Philadelphia precinct house.

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Re: Erik Moeller resigns . . . as an enwiki admin

Unread post by Randy from Boise » Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:00 pm

EricBarbour wrote:
The Devil's Advocate wrote:MediaViewer ArbCom case suspended per largely meaningless WMF policy changes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... d_.28II.29
Cowards. That place is worse than a Philadelphia precinct house.
To be fair, these are the two things that I hoped (and presumed) would result from the case:
1. The WMF has introduced a new staff user account policy, prohibiting the use of the same account for both work and non-work purposes. With effect from 15 September 2014, staff are required to segregate their work and non-work activities into separate work and non-work accounts, with the work accounts containing the identifier '(WMF)' in the account name.

2. Eloquence (T-C-L) [Erik Möller] has resigned as an administrator on the English Wikipedia. While this does not prevent him holding staff administrative rights on a designated work account, it does mean that as he resigned the tools while an arbitration case was pending, he may only regain administrative rights on his personal non-work account via a successful request for adminship.
While absolutely nobody on the planet is buying Jimmy Wales' line "Chill Out, The Community Won," there frankly wasn't anything left to be accomplished by the glacial ArbCom process...

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Re: Erik Moeller resigns . . . as an enwiki admin

Unread post by Poetlister » Mon Sep 01, 2014 7:04 pm

What has this achieved? If he wants to do anything requiring admin powers, he'll use his staff account and somehow twist it so it's within his staff remit - office action or some such. Or he'll call a friend. Who will argue?
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Re: Erik Moeller resigns . . . as an enwiki admin

Unread post by Midsize Jake » Tue Sep 02, 2014 12:29 am

Randy from Boise wrote:To be fair, these are the two things that I hoped (and presumed) would result from the case: <snip>
Both of these outcomes are mostly self-serving moves on the Foundation's part. The first thing is something they should have been doing all along, since it reinforces their bogus "multiple hat" concept for when staff members add or edit content (and thereby become content providers). By imposing the requirement now, they can look like they're doing it as a concession (if not a favor) to the users, not that it matters much either way. Meanwhile, the second thing takes away whatever leverage the so-called "community" may have thought it had over Mr. Möller, which of course was illusory all along, but now they can't even pretend they can touch him.

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