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They had a "Governance meeting" on Thursday: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT%2B/Governance/2023-04-20 It looks like Hexatekin is some kind of project manager for their conference, and unlike the rest of the user group is capable of having a conversation with the Austrians as a grown-u...

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 16, 2023 3:23 pm
Dorothy has taken over the role that Ashley had in nearly perfect synchronicity.
I wonder at whether she is a cat's paw.

More likely they've found a woman to delegate secretarial tasks to while Ashley concentrates on the important things, like his demands to boycott Wikimania.

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The Wikimedia LGBT report for 2022 is now up!

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT%2B/2022

There's a lot of credit being taken for things that had very little involvement from the User Group. Perhaps not unusual for a Wikimedia chapter or whatever. But striking.

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How is Queering Wikipedia shaping up?

Seems they are struggling to fill their 'office hours' about the event. But I am sure they are going to blow us away with the program for the event, which will be amazingly well attended.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:QW_Office_Hours

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Jimmy looks like he's put on some weight. And what's that guy doing with the spoon?

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I'm also not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure Giraffe Stapler is right. The copyright in the composition exists separately to the copyright in the performance of the composition. Both of those are now licenced under CC-BY-SA. But nothing to stop the original copyright holder also giving the WMF a licen...

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Grant funding I might add, that should never have been given to any group that included Ashley at a management level - showing an absolute failure on the part of the WMF to perform due diligence into where its donation money was going. There are some hard questions here for the WMF about their choi...

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Not only will they have to say who they are, but WMF wants them to do stuff in return for the money they give them - so they've missed out on $34K funding for their 'conversation series' . With the WMF saying things like that, it doesn't look likely they'll be handing out cash for a WM LGBT Executi...

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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"?

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Wikimedia LGBT has held a meeting!

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimed ... 2023-02-06

They are planning to incorporate, and join Wikimedia Europe. (Why Europe?)

This can only end well for all concerned.

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ooooh they have had a meeting - well spotted Peltarion, whoever you may be: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT/2023-01-02 The user group currently has 3 main workstreams in flight (Queering Wikipedia 2023 conference, Conversation series, UG incorporation) and a few others more ad-hoc (UG...

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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.or...

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The RFC is now, what, 270 support rolling back and 200 oppose. That's not going to be enough to 'make' WMF do anything but also there are clearly some very unhappy bunnies. Is the WMF going to respond to it in any meaningful way?

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Question: Why no money from the WMF to LGBT+? Answer: Wikimedia LGBT+ has not asked directly enough. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Queering_Wikipedia_2022_(Saturday)_slides.pdf&page=33,Slide 33 Solution: Request money from the WMF! They haven't asked for money yet, except for...

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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/QW2022 Queering Wikipedia 2022 takes place on: Friday, October 21, at 18:00 UTC and Saturday, October 22, at 14:00 UTC for 4 hours The Queering Wikipedia 2022 programme is split into: Friday: Networking, social and cultural programme With presentations from the Wikime...

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Here's a thread about whether people who are banned from Wikipedia should get WMF grants. Any of the English Wikipedia types here want to ask if the WMF applied any of the criteria they're talking about to Fae and Wikimedia LGBT? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#Should_the_...

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As of 17:50 this afternoon, Commons has been Fae-free for one year.

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Aaand of course the response was... Ashley hatting off one post, and Owen Blacker putting two more under the same hat.

Criticism will not be tolerated. Don't worry about the content of what's said, just say it's not posted in the right place.

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Our appeal for project management was poorly focussed, meaning that the bids we had were more directed at the technical aspects than the project management and event management aspects. As we were getting increasingly close to the proposed date of the conference and our internal volunteer capacity ...

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And 'Peltarion' is sniffing around asking questions. Is that Fae again? Or someone pretending to be Fae? Or Fae pretending to be someone pretending to be Fae? User(Scuto) wanting to be very obvious to all concerned while pretending not to be. But Fae/Scuto already knows what is happening in all the...

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The conference is postponed, long live the conference!

And 'Peltarion' is sniffing around asking questions. Is that Fae again? Or someone pretending to be Fae? Or Fae pretending to be someone pretending to be Fae?

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:QW ... stponement

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This is in their meeting minutes: * We’ve had a whistleblowing complaint and an enforcement issue with the Telegram channels This has got to be someone complaining about Fae appointing their various identities as admin of the Telegram channel, member of the WM LGBT governance committee, and every ot...

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Vigilant wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 10, 2022 3:30 pm
Now they're selecting the questions that the sad little proles are allowed to ask of potential board members.

Maybe we should crowdsource some questions.

"On a scale of Nope to Jimbo, where do you stand..."

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Only 18 of Fae's online personas filled in the survey??

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Ashley Speedoguy Fae Scuto sockpuppet alert... "User:QW22" wants $89,500 for a conference. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/QW22 Ashley Speedoguy Fae Scuto Boxset is still waiting to hear about that $89,500. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT/2022-03-15

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What's the TLDR version?

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Ashley Speedoguy Fae Scuto sockpuppet alert... "User:QW22" wants $89,500 for a conference.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special ... tions/QW22

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this week's Wikimedia LBGT user group meeting - attendance, 3.

No mention of the $100,000...

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimed ... 2021-12-07

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No non-Hispanic person would ever use Spanish words in edit summaries. It's literally inconceivable.

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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT+/2021 ",,, the Wikimedia Foundation is unable to provide staff support, but has offered finacial support to our organization so that we can hire staff for our membership. We understand that a good first ask for money is somewhere around US$100,000 for t...

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Mason wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 26, 2021 11:43 am
Well, there’s some irony that “too much scrutiny” was a top concern given the most recent RfA.

They can fix this by locking all RfA candidates in a room, shining bright lights in their eyes, and shouting at them until they confess to being Icewhiz.

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oh god they even have sockpuppets ON TWITTER. ZOMG off-wiki canvassing. Awful.

Queering Wikipedia 2022 looks to have missed deadline: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/QW2022/Proposal

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it's been almost 2 months! Is Fae waiting for Halloween for a big comeback? Have they retired to a delux sockfarm in the Welsh mountains?

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Could someone start a community discussion about unblocking Eostrix? It could be argued that even if he is Icewhiz, he is a good and popular editor so justifies an unblock under WP:IAR. I just suggest that as an example of where Wikilogic can take us. Don't think so. As Arbcom imposed the block, on...

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The trick is to guess who can draft something that the WMF will accept but would be damaging to Wikipedia in the long term. I don't know if that could be done except by a very clever person who knows how the WMF ticks. Wikipediocracy clearly missed a trick by not holding an open primary for the Wik...

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It's a bit confusing trying to work out whether the two former WMF Board members standing are standing as "WMF-approved" candidates, or whether it's just a sign that not even the WMF Board has a coherent view of what the WMF should do. But you can always vote for whoever you think is likely to do a ...

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Commons has been Fae-free for 4 weeks. If it lasts 12 months should we have a celebration?

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Fram is the poster child for civility being ignored on the projects despite its being a fundamental pillar. Aside from being largely a matter of opinion, that argument has always struck me as post-Framgate pro-WMF revisionism. Lots of WP admins act like assholes towards untalented n00bs — the idea ...

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It's sad. There could be an LGBT group that does good stuff, but that won't happen with a metaphorical pidgeon strutting around shitting all over the place right in the middle of it.

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So... wait, Wikipediocracy has infiltrated Wikimedia LGBT meetings and found the meetings are all about Fae?

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If you're going to sock, go to a cafe and sock. Just make sure you log out before you leave the house, and again before you leave the cafe.

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The white smoke has been smoked - and the winners are: Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight Victoria Doronina Dariusz Jemielniak Lorenzo Losa I look forward to the scintillating insights of forum members about how this is all going to be a disaster, or something. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fou...

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A whole week of no Fae! What's going on? One (or more) of the following - 1. Fae has emailed Trust and Safety saying "I'm stopping my 200 million automated edits to Commons until you ban Beeblebrox" 2. T&S have told Fae that this is turning into a massive WP:BOOMERANG and they are at risk of getting...

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