Is he right?ArmasRebane wrote: ↑Fri Jan 06, 2023 1:56 amVig, you see someone fighting righteous crusades, I see a sad, petulant person who flies off the handle with very little provocation.
You're out of your element, Donny!
Ok, sure, but what it if was this person?Midsize Jake wrote: ↑Fri Jan 06, 2023 4:46 amIn this case, you had someone with only four previous edits, User:ThomsenY (T-C-L) (presumably this person, FWIW),
Both seem equally likely, so I guess we will never know.Yvonne Thomsen
Head of Marketing and Communications, Fremantle Nordics
Your Thomsen seems much more likely, actually — I was basing mine on the fact that she (Isa) had @ThomsenY as a Twitter account, but that was back in 2013, and the Wikipedia account was created in 2021. And since Yvonne works for Fremantle Group and Miso Films is part of the Fremantle "umbrella," it almost has to be Yvonne.Giraffe Stapler wrote: ↑Fri Jan 06, 2023 4:35 pmBoth seem equally likely, so I guess we will never know.
Reupping since Courcelles has resumed consistent editing.Vigilant wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2019 9:01 pmFram tripped over this group. Here's an example of the fuckery they were doing.
It's been talked about on here before, but it takes on a new light when viewed through a lens of modernity.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants: ... ch_Oceania
What odd friends you have, Courcelles (T-C-L)Also known as, "Please send me and my friends on a free vacation for three weeks in paradise, all paid for by the donor's money. By the way, the chapter where I'm Vice President has also endorsed having you all pay for our vacation. We totally promise we're going to work all day...*smirk*"Legal name of chapter or nonchapter group
Outreach Oceania
User name
LauraHale as submitter, LauraHale , Hawkeye7 , Courcelles , Chzz as participants requesting funding
User location (country)
Australia, Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Grant contact name
LauraHale
Grant contact username or email
User:LauraHale: [[1]], [[2]]
Grant contact title (position)
Outreach Oceania Coordinator, Vice President of Wikimedia Australia, History of the Paralympic Movement in Australia Wikimedian in Residence
Full project name
Outreach Oceania: Micronesia
Project lead name
Laura Hale
Event name
Outreach Oceania: Micronesia
Event Web site
Outreach Oceania: Micronesia
Provisional target start date
27 January 2012
Provisional completion date
16 February 2012
Event location (city)
Chuuk and Kosrae in the Federated States of Micronesia, and Majuro in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
Amount requested (remember to specify currency!)
$11,923.50 USD
Endorsements
Wikimedia Australia has offered public support the project."We're also pillaging the chapter funds! Yay, us!"Funding is being sought from (but not guaranteed) WM AU to cover the Australian participants and is not being requested as part of a WMF funding request."We've spent a bunch of our own money to make you feel guilty... now give us the rest of our vacay money!"Transportation Airfare: Canberra to Cairns Out of pocket organiser expense paid AUD $630.00 2 $1,260.00 $1,260.00 $1,260.00
Transportation Airfare: Cairns to Micronesia Out of pocket organiser expense paid AUD $1,369.68 2 $2,739.36 $2,739.36 $2,739.36
Transportation Booking fees for Australian participants Out of pocket organiser expense paid AUD $152.25 2 $304.50 $304.50 $308.90
The talk page is a hoot where they snap and snarl at anyone who would dare question their NEED to go on vacay.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_ ... ch_Oceania
At the end, when they realize they aren't getting the filthy lucre for their jaunt, they resort to attacks that will probably seem familiar to people reading this topic.Dear readers,This request was not withdrawn: Please deny
I want to be clear: It became obvious to me at a certain point: The grant was not going to be supported. I'm not sure if this awareness came before or after a WMF fellow made comments in front of other chapter members at a conference that the applicants were looking for a free beach vacation, when a now WMF fellow who I had constantly championed came in and said culturally insensitive things that made it impossible to show the grant application to locals, or when one of the people over seeing the grant implied I was trying to black mail the Foundation into funding the grant. Whatever the case, it was clear the WMF was not going to support the grant. Thus, there was no reason to pursue a grant the Foundation was not going to support. It should remain open until such a time the WMF denies it because I will not formally deny it. If the WMF were to reconsider funding with an awareness of time issues have severely jeopardised doing it on the proposed time, allow for a postponement of the grant, allow for the removal of Chzz and the replacement or non-replacement of another candidate, that would be acceptable. For that reason, it remains open until such a time the WMF denies it. Funding for myself is not acceptable. It was not requested. This grant needs two people doing in person outreach. You cannot go into multiple classrooms in a short period of time, work with students, separately work with staff, reach out to local GLAM people, talk to the local government and do content development as an individual. I feel my credentials were questioned because my expertise in multiple areas related to this outreach was dismissed. But yes, this grant is open until such a time that it is denied by the WMF. (Also, I don't appreciate being accused of being sulky and being passive aggressive. Whether or not that was Asaf's intention, he used arguments against a woman that have been historically used to oppress them. I am making the good faith assumption that Asaf did not intend to do and what we have here is a giant communications problem.) --LauraHale 10:13, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
This request was indeed withdrawn. Your first few lines in this very section say so clearly -- you were disappointed the WMF is not prepared to fund the grant in its entirety, ignored a counter-offer the WMF made, and simply stopped responding to my questions and requests to continue the conversation. I had to reach out to you on IRC last night just to get a straight answer about this grant's status.
Clearly, when you do not get your way, you choose to resort to any tactic, however manipulative or cynical. You deliberately keep conflating other WMF staff's comments, made verbally elsewhere and not in this grant discussion, and a community member's (not a WMF fellow at the time) opinion (one of several respondents which you solicited on IRC), with the WMF's reasoned position as articulated by the WMF's authorized representative for grant discussions, i.e. me.
Readers of this discussion are welcome to read back and see that none of your grievances above (I make no comment about their validity, it is not my place to adjudicate them) are relevant to the conversation I have been trying to have with you about your proposal. I did not question your credentials, I did not say "culturally insensitive things", and I was continually given the bait-and-switch instead of straight answers to my questions.
As for your playing of the gender card, I am disappointed, but not surprised. If you would like that, I am happy to paste a transcript of our little IRC chat from 14 hours ago, and the discrepancy between your behavior and position in private and the facade you are putting on in public will be revealed. Or you could apologize for accusing me of misogyny. Ijon 17:30, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
I have read it. The request was denied. WMF was unwilling to fund the requested grant. I informed WM-AU and the people in Micronesia accordingly. I cancelled the air tickets which had already been purchased. This incurred me a 35% cancellation fee.
I never indicated that I would accept any counter offers. I was not bargaining for tomatoes at the market. I certainly did consider the proposal that I personally fund ¾ of it to be any sense a reasonable response.
I am appalled by your insensitivity, your incompetence and your misogyny. I am also taken aback your attempt to claim that the request was withdrawn rather than denied while simultaneously admitting that it was indeed denied. Hawkeye7 18:40, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
Nice one Asaf, now you are calling Laura manipulative and cynical, when she doesn't "get her way". I hope you read your last comments again in a couple of days, and consider if you might have been out-of-line. I'm not going to accuse you of anything but your earlier comments might not have been misogynistic but they are leaning towards it now. I can understand everyone's frustration but this is getting uncivil, and testing the boundaries of good conduct. I would like to point our that "WMF's reasoned positioned articulated by the WMF's authorized representative" doesn't really mean anything beyond the concerned staff member, which, just about anyone can and often does disagree with. Depending on who you ask, those "reasoned" positions are often wrong. I do like Hawkeye's analogy of haggling for tomatoes at the market, that is what it seems to have become, with all the inspection of authenticity, yelling and rudeness. I hope you realize you are not just insulting Laura at this point, but upsetting others, and generally not behaving in the way the people who know you, would have expected from you. Theo10011 18:41, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
There is a gender gap problem on WMF projects, and it appears to potentially be a top down problem. We have Erik Moeller and other high level WMF functionaries who caused big problems on the gender gap list by claiming that their dominance was silencing women was sexist and their voices deserved to be heard, even at the expense of women's participation in conversations about resolving the gender gap. We have Liam Gallagher who, according to what four people at WM-UK told me, had pictures of his girl friend in a sexually explicit positions, appear before everyone on the conference's over head projector at important movement conference with at least eleven influential Movement women in the room. Yes, it was only a few seconds because a woman got it off by moving the mouse to shut down the screen saver.) We have Asaf engaging in misogynistic wording, using arguments historically used to repress women. (This perception appears clear: Who are the three chapter people WMF appears to have biggest problem with in the Chapters movement? All women, with the possible exception of one other person. The WMF doesn't appear to run across this problem with men. The WMF does not appear to build up movement women who do things.)--LauraHale 19:43, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
What Asaf doesn't appear to under is this: The problem here is NOT LauraHale. The problem is WMF and its processes. If I can't figure out how to successfully apply for this, it is a problem for the WMF. If the WMF is so short on money that it can't fund projects like this, it is a problem. If the WMF cannot support member run initiatives, it is a problem. If the WMF cannot read what is written and ask specific questions that specifically deal with the grant as propose, it is a problem. If the WMF appears to retaliate against chapters because one of their members does something not approved of by the WMF, it is a problem with the WMF. If the WMF can do similar programs that members propose but cannot provide that information to insure success for similar measures by participants who have greater cultural understanding, it is a problem.--LauraHale 19:43, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
Oh. And question for Asaf: When was the last time a granting body to the WMF accused WMF of being shrill? Of being passive-aggressive because the WMF didn't get a grant the WMF thought would be beneficial to their programming? Of sour grapes because the WMF didn't get what they want? I am just assuming that most granting bodies treat the WMF civilly when the WMF doesn't get grants. Maybe I'm wrong.--LauraHale 19:43, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
There's a lot more on that talk page.
Read for yourself and imagine what must have happened in the background with this Laura Hale grifter when she found herself getting corrected by Fram about her paid project to write an ass load of crappy articles about ParaOlympians.
Imagine how much more powerful she must have felt now that she's married to the Chair of the Board.
Imagine just how terrible her wrath must be with this new found power.
#FreeFram
#AdminDown
Still true.Vigilant wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 11:43 amLove Fram?Osborne wrote:I understand your hatred of WMF and LH, but why do you love Fram? We are here to hate abusive admins, not to advocate them. What's your reason?Vigilant wrote: Seems like he should be free to request and get it back from any crat.
You've read that wrong.
I abhor the seemingly endless unfair processes foisted on people by the WMF.
I abhor the hypocrisy of the Laura Hales and Maria Sefidari Huicis.
I abhor manipulative sociopaths like Laura Hale.
I enjoy watching the hapless ARBCOM get their teeth kicked in.
I enjoy watching the anthill at en.wp get stirred up as the minions are shown just how fucked up things are.
There are far worse monsters than Fram in this fairy tale we're reading.
FYI, en.wp people, I will NEVER let this go.SLW80 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2019 1:40 amThat's kind of the problem though: As long as Raystorm is active and elected to WMF (or appointed or whatever), Hale cannot NOT be involved in some way. There's no way to disengage her financial future from Raystorm's -- they're married. What benefits Raystorm gets from the WMF, be it funding or whatever else, will benefit Hale in some manner. Raystorm using her position, regardless of Laura 'vanishing' (that won't last), is still an issue all by itself when the person she was using her position as a hammer on the behalf of was making money to write content.mendaliv wrote: At least, these are the objections that'd be raised to going after Hale now on enwiki, in addition to the inevitable cries of victim blaming/victim harassment because Hale has managed to convince some powerful elements on enwiki that she was harassed (or at least "felt harassed", which in the non-nuanced discourse on enwiki is the same as actual harassment).
And there's literally nothing stopping Hale from coming back at some later point under a new name (like she went from PurplePopple to LauraHale) and starting this all over again. In fact, I'm almost positive she won't be able to resist. She'll lay low for awhile, then she'll be back.
(Also, for a woman who's stalked others accusing someone of harassment, that's infuriating. Fram did nothing off-wiki and everything they did on-wiki was related entirely to editing Wikipedia. Like-- that's not even close to enough to consider 'harassment'.) ETA: What I mean is, Laura could have stopped Fram from saying anything at any point by simply not fucking up every article she put her hands on. Calling it harassment was just a buzz word, it was meant to set them up for this.
I don't know if I'm saying any of this right. I guess the TL;DR would be that as long as Laura is married to Raystorm, and Raystorm used her authority to protect Laura, there's no vanishing that can fix that, and Raystorm now needs to be scrutinized unless they, too, vanish. THEN people can let it go, ala Elsa.
Still accurate.Vigilant wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2019 2:31 amThat's probably accurate.Jbhunley wrote:The next position along the trough from Wikipedia for the non-technical is going into politics -- same smarmy skill set on a different stage. So my money is on giving that a go based on the social 'credentials' established at WP rather than returning to WP. Probably start by targeting some outsider socially progressive committee and work to build a base from there. She has displayed the skills and temperament to excel in such an environment.SLW80 wrote:That's kind of the problem though: As long as Raystorm is active and elected to WMF (or appointed or whatever), Hale cannot NOT be involved in some way. There's no way to disengage her financial future from Raystorm's -- they're married. What benefits Raystorm gets from the WMF, be it funding or whatever else, will benefit Hale in some manner. Raystorm using her position, regardless of Laura 'vanishing' (that won't last), is still an issue all by itself when the person she was using her position as a hammer on the behalf of was making money to write content.mendaliv wrote: At least, these are the objections that'd be raised to going after Hale now on enwiki, in addition to the inevitable cries of victim blaming/victim harassment because Hale has managed to convince some powerful elements on enwiki that she was harassed (or at least "felt harassed", which in the non-nuanced discourse on enwiki is the same as actual harassment).
And there's literally nothing stopping Hale from coming back at some later point under a new name (like she went from PurplePopple to LauraHale) and starting this all over again. In fact, I'm almost positive she won't be able to resist. She'll lay low for awhile, then she'll be back.
(Also, for a woman who's stalked others accusing someone of harassment, that's infuriating. Fram did nothing off-wiki and everything they did on-wiki was related entirely to editing Wikipedia. Like-- that's not even close to enough to consider 'harassment'.) ETA: What I mean is, Laura could have stopped Fram from saying anything at any point by simply not fucking up every article she put her hands on. Calling it harassment was just a buzz word, it was meant to set them up for this.
I don't know if I'm saying any of this right. I guess the TL;DR would be that as long as Laura is married to Raystorm, and Raystorm used her authority to protect Laura, there's no vanishing that can fix that, and Raystorm now needs to be scrutinized unless they, too, vanish. THEN people can let it go, ala Elsa.I think that's naive.Jbhunley wrote:Wiki and Fandom are likely closed off and she definitely will stir up an investigation should she show up back at the Foundation. She will go somewhere she feels validated and empowered, like anyone else with a choice, but can leverage grievance as shown in past endeavors.
She's a skilled manipulator, but doesn't read the room well.
She's bagged her moose in Maria Sefidari Huici and she's not letting some penny ante, trumped up game warden tell her no.
I view it differently.Jbhunley wrote:I wish her all the best in whatever she does -- In a a "don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out" kind of way.
I'm adding Laura Hale to my 'professional herpes' list.
Regardless of where she lands, any new employer will get the dossier on Laura Hale.
She can be Maria Sefidari Huici's 三八.
Just in case anybody forgets that Courcelles was deeply involved in the biggest scam on en.wp EVER.Vigilant wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:38 pmWhat an interesting document
Wikimedia Paralympic history project - Wikimedia Australia* The success of the project in attracting editors with a disability supports diversity within the Wikipedia
editing community. These editors include Melissa Carlton, Elizabeth Edmondson and Graham Pearce.
* Approximately half of the editors involved in the Paralympic history project are female, including new
editors Tara McPhail, Melissa Carlton, Patricia Ollerenshaw, Rebekka Wake, and Elizabeth Edmondson.
In addition, experienced editor Laura Hale has been the most prodigious contributor to the project.Existing editors
* The project has engaged with experienced existing editors. By supporting them, providing resources,
feedback, and opportunities for collaboration and recognition, the project has sought to enhance their
involvement with Wikipedia and to regenerate their interest.
* Editors such as Laura Hale, John Vandenberg, Graham Pearce, Ross Mallett, Toby Hudson, and Robert
Myers have made major contributions to the project by creating and editing articles, taking photos of
events, doing interviews, writing Wikinews stories and training and mentoring new editors.
* Existing editors have seen sufficient value in the program that some of them have spent large amounts
of their own money to attend events in Australia and overseas. For example, in November 2013, Ross
Mallett travelled from Canberra to Bangkok to cover the Asia-Oceania wheelchair basketball zonal
championships, and John Vandenberg travelled from Jakarta to Bangkok to for the same event.Making most of these contributions entirely suspect...A library of Paralympic sport images.
* Since the project commenced, 1,763 images have been uploaded into Wikimedia Commons for use in
Wikipedia articles about Paralympic sport.
* These images have been used extensively across the different language versions of Wikipedia to
illustrate articles about Paralympic sport. For example, this image of Priya Cooper appears in three
English language articles as well as articles in six other language versions of Wikipedia.
* One of the aims of the project is to make available 35,000 images from the APC‟s collection.
Game over, right there.A precedent of editing and reporting at the Paralympic Games
Wikimedia Australia and the Australian Paralympic Committee combined to fund the first media
accreditations of Wikipedia editors at the Paralympic Games, when they sent two editors to the London
2012 Paralympic Games under the “Wikimedians to the Games” (W2G) project.
The two Wikimedians who attended the Games published 69 Wikinews articles during the Games,
conducted thirteen interviews, uploaded a number of images to Wikimedia Commons and updated
Wikipedia articles about the Games and the Paralympic movement. The report of the W2G project is
contained in Attachment B.
Expanding this concept internationally, one of the W2G Wikimedians, Laura Hale, will take a team of
accredited Ukrainian Wikinews reporters to the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.
Because Ukrainian Wikipedia lacks a great deal of Paralympic content and in preparation for Sochi, Laura and her team are working on creating a way to bulk create articles as many Paralympic medallists and world record holders as possible. Laura has also talked to people involved with four other language Wikipedia projects who have indicated their interest in bulk creating articles about Paralympic medallists if a standardised data file is available to allow ease of translation.
The Australian Paralympic Committee is keen to support Wikimedians to attend the 2016 Paralympic
Summer Games in Rio.
Laura Hale bulk produced shit articles for pay.
Everyone knew what was going on an protected her.
Here's her status report to her employer.Enumerated tasks from her employerATTACHMENT A: W2G
A report on the Wikimedians to the Games project
Adapted and including tabular data from a report written by Laura Hale
CC-BY http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/File:H ... ympics.pdfProTip: You guys got screwed. The articles were garbage.Laura Hale conducted a Wikinews workshop in London August 2012 in the lead-up to the Games.
Upon nomination as one of the W2G, Laura Hale worked with the APC and other HoPAu editors to:
• create articles about all 161 Australian 2012 Summer Paralympians;
• place pictures of every 2012 Australian Paralympian on Wikimedia Commons and in their Wikipedia
article;
• create an extensive set of articles about as many Paralympic classification classes as possible (127
created);
• publish articles on Wikinews in lead-up to London Games;
• donated images taken by the Wiki community of Australian Paralympic sport to Wikimedia
Commons(more than 250 images); and
• Upload Paralympic related interviews to Wikimedia Commons (10).
These articles all need to be rereviewed in light of the conflict of interest editing12 HoPAu supported articles have earned Good Article status. Of these, 10 are about London
Paralympians: Angie Ballard, Jennifer Blow, Meica Christensen, Ellie Cole, Nicole Esdaile, Jessica Gallagher,
Rachel Henderson, Michelle Rzepecki, Tyan Taylor, Teigan Van Roosmalen. Of these, 6 achieved their status
a month before the start of the Games.
Ah, Commons got extensively shit in as well.Wikimedia Commons
In the lead-up to London, the Australian Paralympic Committee uploaded more than 600 images to
Wikimedia Commons, an image sharing resource which is part of the Wikimedia project. In addition,
images were uploaded by people involved with the project, including LauraHale and Bidgee, who
photographed at events in Australia in the lead-up to the Games. One image taken by a participant was
used in a television broadcast about the men‟s wheelchair basketball team in the lead-up to London.
Wikinews, a Laura Hale creation from whole cloth was also involved. No surprises there.Wikinews
Table 3 summarises the Wikinews articles by sport published in the Paralympic period. Table 4 breaks down
the articles according to the country of the subjects of the stories. During the Games, articles were written
about athletes from 29 different countries.
A list of the involvedI deleted the non-wikipediots.Attachment B
Project contributors
To date, the Paralympic history project has been very successful in harnessing the contributions of a large
number of people and providing the opportunity for them to contribute according to their interests and
areas of expertise.
This attachment illustrates the breadth of the input to the project from more than 30 people, most of who
continue to be involved in some way.
Not all contributors edit Wikipedia.
Facilitators
In the early stages of the project Leigh Blackall and Professor Keith Lyons from the University of Canberra
were instrumental in developing the project concept and initial strategies and making the introductions to
representatives of Wikimedia Australia which were crucial in establishing the project.
Leigh Blackall has been involved in Wikimedia for a very long time, but with low level of contributions outside
of his own professional activity. He was a key organiser of RecentChangesCamp Canberra which WMAU
supported. He envisaged Wikimedia having a role to play in the Paralympic history project, and wrote the
tender for the written history component of the project. He was instrumental in gaining the support of
WMAU. During this time, Leigh ran Wikipedia workshops in Australia, with libraries and education institutions.
Leigh set up the project blog and the Google Group which is the main communication tool for the project.
Existing editors
The project has been fortunate to attract extensive input from a group of experienced editors. Some of
them have made extensive time and financial commitments to the project. They have also played a
significant role in assisting and mentoring new editors.
* Laura Hale had minor Wikimedia roles in the past, and was also a key organiser of
RecentChangesCamp Canberra, but it was the Paralympic history project that pulled Laura into the
Wikipedia world, and under this project she was engaged as Australia's first 'Wikimedian in Residence'. It
had rocky times, and didn't fit the mold of other Wikimedian in Residence, but she is a content creation
machine, and this was a critical component of the project. The 'Wikimedian in Residence' mould has
since been broken a few times with the Open Science and Consumer Reports WIRs.
Laura Hale has been a 1000+ edit per month contributor for over 24 months. Laura was sent to the
London Paralympics through the Wikimedians to the Games project. She continues to contribute to
Paralympic topics, and has taken some of the project concepts to Spain and Ukraine.
* John Vandenberg is now heavily devoted to the HOPAU project, both in his time and has spent over $10,000 of his own money on this project since 2011.
* Ross Mallett is now heavily devoted to the HOPAU project, both in his time and has spent over $10,000 of his own money on this project since 2012. Ross Mallett was sent to the London Paralympics through
the Wikimedians to the Games project. He attends Paralympic events in Australia and internationally and has created a number of articles about Paralympic sport in countries in the Asia Pacific region.
* Graham Pearce has contributed significantly to the HOPAU project, doing radio interviews, copyediting and polishing hundreds of articles, constantly monitoring the content for changes, and working closely with subjects to help them contribute to Wikipedia through him, and usually these contributions are adding quality rather than quantity - getting the small details right.
* Toby Hudson has photographed events and edited a number of articles, including the Wikipedia page "Disability in Australia" created in September 2013, which is 2,555 words of prose.
* Steven Zhang expanded “Amanda Fraser” and guided it onto the front page of English Wikipedia as a “Did You Know?”. Steven put a lot of time into the wording of this article, and was thanked by Tony
Naar and the subject‟s family for delicate handling of a touchy subject.
* Robert Myers (Bidgee) has attended many Paralympic events, contributing photos to the project and editing articles relating to the events.
New editors
The project has attracted a number of new editors from within the Paralympic movement and others who
had previously not had an active role in Paralympic sport. As with the existing editors, for some of these new
editors, the project has been a vehicle for their engagement with Paralympic sport.
Paralympians editing Wikipedia
* Elizabeth Edmondson was a Paralympic gold medallist at the 1964 and 1968 Paralympic Games. She attended the first project‟s workshop in Perth and has continued to edit and contribute to the project in
other ways since that time.
* Melissa Carlton is a Tasmanian swimmer who attended the first Brisbane workshop and became an active editor, with a specific interest in Tasmanian athletes, coaches and officials.
* User: Sportygeek is a current female Paralympian who commenced editing Wikipedia in January 2013 and has amassed 1,056 edits in her first year of editing, mostly improving Paralympic topics, and has
created several new articles.
Other new editors
* Tara McPhail was told about the HOPAU project by occasional editor Chris Gould (who was introduced to the project through her role at the National Sports Information Centre), who was a neighbour. Tara thought it would be a good project to volunteer for and attended the classification workshop in Canberra. Inspired by the topical area, and challenged by the laissez-faire nature of wikis, Tara threw herself into the tasks at hand in the HOPAU project, including creating flyers, transcribing audio, uploading photos, etc. Tara was a highly active editor for almost 12 months, has participated in meetups, spoken about the project at the national librarians‟ conference, and continues to edit occasionally.
* Greg Blood had retired from the National Sports Information Centre at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and was interested in using Wikipedia to assist in gathering material to write a book about the history of the AIS. He was recruited to the project by Tony Naar, who manages the project for the APC. Greg decided to start an account and give it a try in January 2012. He has since written more than 30 articles, has been an active editor every month, and is often a „very active‟ editor, and has 5,111 edits in less than two years of contributing. Since the 2102 Paralympics he has continued to edit Wikipedia, widening his interests to include drugs in sport in Australia, the organisation of sport in Australia, sport and the 2013 Australian federal election and the AIS.
* Vicki Epstein is the wife of Paralympian Ray Epstein and has written a book on the history of the disability sport in Queensland. Her interest is in Queensland athletes and she is an active contributor to the HOPAU email group.
* Tony Naar manages the Paralympic history project for the APC.
* Rebekka Wake works in the communications division of the APC.
* Patricia Ollerenshaw has been an active volunteer with the APC since 2001 and currently focuses on sourcing material for the history project. She has attended two workshops and written articles about
people who have been missed by other editors.
* Graham Pearce's mother, Linda, contributes enormously to the HOPAU project indirectly, assisting and
supporting Graham in many varied ways. Graham's work in this project is described above. As just one
example, Linda has searched newspaper article scans for reliable sources.
* Stephen Townsend is a post-graduate student at UQ and has become involved in editing through the involvement of UQ. He has written a Wikipedia article (at the SLQ workshops), published academic articles about Wikipedia, and fixed an error identified as part of his research.
* User: Lucky102 (Ireland and Sydney) began editing Wikipedia during the 2012 Paralympic Games, working on Paralympic topics relevant to the ongoing Paralympic Games. They have made more than 1,500 contributions in 1.5 years and have created 34 articles.
Non-Australian
* Courcelles has reviewed many of the disability sport articles, and participates in the HOPAU discussions. He supports the HOPAU project however he can.
* Roger Conroy has been a disability sport contributor for a long time and has also joined the HOPAU project team, and has seen the benefits of HOPAU to the entire Paralympics area. He continues to support the project.
* User:Axid in France has been writing articles about the Paralympics and Paralympians for a long time. In 2011 and 2013 he has expressed his support for the project and helps whenever he can.
* Brian McNeil from the UK is another editor who supports the program.
* Siska, Kartika, Ivonne, Revo and Risky attended the 2012 Paralympics workshop in Jakarta.
* Kartika and Ivonne have uploaded batches of images to Wikimedia Commons.
Other project contributors
This is a conspiracy to edit wikipedia for cash.
* One of the named participants, Laura Hale, is the wife of Maria Sefidari Huici, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation.
* Another of the named participants is Courcelles who is married to Karen Brown on the Trust and Safety gang.
Vigilant wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2019 8:15 pmThe questions that need to be asked and answered is:
* "Did Maria Sefidari Huici know that Laura Hale was a paid SPA?"
* "Who else on the Board of Trustees knew?"
* "Who on Trust and Safety knew?"
* "Did legal know?"
And, most importantly,
* "Did Katherine Maher know?"
All of these people signed off on the Trust and Safety action.
All of these people are culpable.
Brad Brown is now regularly contributing to en.wp.Vigilant wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2019 11:48 pmInvolved from the beginning, knew what was going on, married to a Trust and Safety person...Non-Australian
* Courcelles has reviewed many of the disability sport articles, and participates in the HOPAU discussions. He supports the HOPAU project however he can.
Complicit
What say you, en.wp?!Vigilant wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2019 12:06 amEarlier threadf I were a Wiki-Sock-Hunter, I would find Courcelles quite suspicious indeed:
*The account was originally created as "Bradjamesbrown" on February 28, 2006, but its first edit wasn't until September 19 of that year.
*Over the next three years, only about 50 edits were made using the account. Those 50 edits suggest familiarity with Wikipedia and its lingo. He uses the phrase "vandalism revert" in his first edit ever. His fifth and sixth edits are to the article on the WMF's Erik Moeller. The purpose of his 11th edit was to "remove unverifyable [sic] information." In his 15th edit, he used a stock vandalism warning template. With his 22nd edit, he created an ANI thread. In his 36th edit, he used the abbreviation "NPOV."
*Then, starting on November 21, 2009, Bradjamesbrown dove headlong into AfD, AfC, patrolling, etc., and the account became truly "active" for the first time. Six months later, he had accrued over 55,000 edits, about half of which were made in March and April 2010 alone (source). At that point, in May 2010, he became an administrator after his RfA closed without a single opposing vote. A few days later, on June 1, the account was renamed "Courcelles."
*In December 2011, he completed his meteoric rise when he was elected to an ArbCom seat with the highest support percentage of any candidate. He and Elen of the Roads are the only members of ArbCom apparently hailing from the "next generation" of Wikipedians, such as it is; both started actively editing in 2009 and became admins in 2010. All other arbs passed RfA in 2008 or earlier.
Good eye, RED2.
What is old is made new again.Vigilant wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2019 2:42 amHonest question.Alex Shih wrote:That's too bad, although like many people here said, he has been doing the equivalent of fuckall and should have resigned much earlier.Vigilant wrote:Courcelles, RIP
Another editor down for getting entangled with Laura Hale.
Courcelles aka Bradford James Brown was deeply involved in and completely aware of the grifting being run by Laura Hale.
That's incontrovertible from the documentation on this thread.
It also implicates his wife, Fluffernutter aka Karen Brown, in a gross conflict of interest.
That's almost certainly why he resigned.
The 'collaboration' between Courcelles and LauraHale goes back to AT LEAST 2011.
Courcelles should have, at the very, very least, have announced his COI and recused immediately when this case came to the docket.
Why, oh why, is his resignation a bad thing?
In any sense?
Don't we want professional and ethical people in positions of power?
Burn, motherfucker.Vigilant wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2019 4:40 amI'm fairly certain that there is a very strong case to be made that Courcelles (T-C-L) has violated WP:ADMINCOND in the Fram case.
Enabling paid COI editing should also figure in.
Eight years he's been doing this grift with Laura Hale.
CU, OS, ARBCOM, admin, .....
He's run cover for her in other ARBCOM cases.
Someone should add a FoF that desysops and indef blocks him in the Proposed Decision talk page.
ARBCOM and Trust and Safety *should* be all in, given their tenor with Fram.
WHAT SAY YOU en.wp?Vigilant wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2019 11:29 pmThe Limp Jimbo Award.Earthy Astringent wrote:Speaking of Arbs, we ought to have a “the worst arb” poll and give the winner a prize. Hell, have categories across the board for WO’s very own version of the Oscars. I would prefer some horribly politically incorrect and juvenile name, like “The Tardies”. But I suppose we could go with its equivalent: The Jimmies! Instead of a gold statue they would get lifetime supply of condoms with our heartfelt wishes that they never procreate.
Courcelles - Hands down. He KNEW what Laura Hale is, his wife is on Trust and Safety, and he still let this case go ahead without shooting it down.
COMPLICIT.
SPINELESS.
QUISLING.
Hey en.wp,Vigilant wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 1:35 amSorry, that was confusing on my part.Beeblebrox wrote:You asked who else on Arbcom knew, which I assumed meant in addition to Courcelles.Vigilant wrote:Courcelles aka Bradford Brown did.Beeblebrox wrote:I doubt most of them fully realized before all this the depths of what she was doing. I certainly didn't until you made your prolonged presentations here on the subject, before Framgate she was just someone I had heard of and recalled vaguely from when Hawkeye7 was desysopped.Vigilant wrote:The question has to be asked:
Who else, on ARBCOM, was aware of what Laura Hale was up to?
Karen Brown did.
All of Trust and Safety should have.
Legal signed off on this.
Katherine Maker signed off on this.
As you might imagine, I suspect strongly that others in the power structure knew enough to have scotched this particular witch burning.
Where we are now...
https://youtu.be/GKZ2deYrAQo?t=1466
I was starting at ARBCOM.
If none of them knew besides Bradford Brown aka Courcelles, I might not have a hard time believing that.
They should have known.
They should have had an open, transparent evidence stage . Maybe even a workshop...
They should have listened and they should have investigated the claims before we got to Proposed Decision stage.
At the very least, Courcelles should have stood up and said, "STOP! There's been a terrible miscarriage of justice here!", but he was a coward.
As to the rest, do you suppose it's possible that Courcelles' wife Karen Brown didn't know?
Trust and Safety with their 70 page document?
WMAU and WMF given their involvement with contracts, GLAM, etc?
It stretches credulity.
Fuck this guy.Vigilant wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2019 11:29 pmThe Limp Jimbo Award.Earthy Astringent wrote:Speaking of Arbs, we ought to have a “the worst arb” poll and give the winner a prize. Hell, have categories across the board for WO’s very own version of the Oscars. I would prefer some horribly politically incorrect and juvenile name, like “The Tardies”. But I suppose we could go with its equivalent: The Jimmies! Instead of a gold statue they would get lifetime supply of condoms with our heartfelt wishes that they never procreate.
Courcelles - Hands down. He KNEW what Laura Hale is, his wife is on Trust and Safety, and he still let this case go ahead without shooting it down.
COMPLICIT.
SPINELESS.
QUISLING.
Courcelles was KEY in this.Vigilant wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 3:35 pmCreating Histories of the Australian Paralympic Movement: A New Relationship between Researchers and the Community (2014–2018)
http://researchers.uq.edu.au/research-project/15622
Documenting the Australian Paralympic story - 7 Aug 2019 (editor's note: This website as part of the project went live DURING Fram's ARBCOM trial *boggle*)
https://habs.uq.edu.au/article/2019/08/ ... mpic-storyThe website...The project, titled ‘Creating Histories of the Australian Paralympic Movement: A New Relationship between Researchers and the Community’, has three major components: Wikipedia pages, a website, and a book (which is at manuscript stage).The credits contain some familiar names...The website, Paralympic Stories, was launched in April 2019, and is a major milestone for the project.
https://paralympichistory.org.au/credits/Leigh Blackall, Greg Blood, Vicki Epstein, Laura Hale, Tara MacPhail, Ross Mallett, Patricia Ollerenshaw, Graham Pearce, John Vandenberg, Liz Watt from the HOPAU Wikipedia and e-history group, the ongoing group that has contributed more than anyone else.This official project went on for five years so far and was paid for from government funds.Wikimedia Australia, including Toby Hudson, Pru Mitchell, Kerry Raymond and Steven Zhang.
Think on that.
Actual coordination, however, started much earlier.
Australian Paralympic History Project
https://www.paralympic.org.au/programs/ ... y-project/This smells to high heaven and should probably result in WMAU getting the same treatment that WMUK got for GibraltarPedia and the QRCode debacle.Wikipedia
Since 2010, Paralympics Australia has enjoyed a relationship with Wikimedia Australia, the parent body for Wikipedia in Australia.
Nearly 1,000 new articles relating to Paralympic sport, especially Paralympic sport in Australia, have been created, including articles about every Australian Paralympic medallist and every member of the Australian Paralympic Team from 2012 to 2018. During the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, these articles were viewed more than 1.9 million times.
In 2017, more than 50 volunteer editors were involved in creating and updating Paralympic content. Paralympics Australia runs workshops annually for new and existing editors.
The parallels are between these two grifts are compelling to say the least.
How much money has been spent on WMAU based grifts?
And the book
https://www.paralympic.org.au/wp-conten ... ersion.pdfThe grifting never stops.Written history
The narrative contained within the written history of the
Paralympic movement in Australia will wind through the history
project, connecting its elements in a multidimensional tapestry.
The primary vehicle for the presentation of the written history
will be online.
The online narrative will link to Wikipedia articles about athletes
and other key participants; it will link to photos; it will link to the
oral histories, to videos; and it will reference the APC’s physical
collections such as memorabilia and the library.
The written history will utilise recent successful online storytelling
techniques to tell the story of the Paralympic movement in
Australia in a compelling way that can be accessed linearly or
non-linearly. A “print on demand” book version is also planned.
The APC has commissioned the University of Queensland to
create the written history. UQ has received additional funding
through a National Research Council grant of $240,000 for the
project, which is seen as an innovative way of telling history.
To summarize, dear reader:
* Every time Fram tried to fix any Paralympic article, he was up against an entire group of people who were editing collectively.
* They coordinated off-wiki, there was money involved, they conspired to flood DYK, GA, FA, Front Page, and other venues to generate page views.
* Laura Hale, like Roger Bamkin in GibraltarPedia, had a scheme to monetize, off wiki in a private project (http://www.para-sports.es), the work she was already paid by HOPAU for.
* Internally, these editors had air cover from Arbs, WMF employees and at least one member of the Board of Trustees.
* Externally, they had the support of the universities, the Australian government and at least one member of Parliament.
* ARBCOM, at Trust and Safety insistence, has started an official case against FRAM, but can't seem point to anything that Fram has done wrong.
* ARBCOM desperately needs to start the WP:BOOMERANG (so apt) case against everyone involved in this scheme.
The stench of corruption is so strong here that nothing else can be discerned but its reek.
Wikipedia, you guys need to clean this with fire or you are complicit through inaction.
When the next paid grifter comes prowling on en.wp, you won't be able to turn them away.
What say you, en.wp?Vigilant wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 3:35 pmCreating Histories of the Australian Paralympic Movement: A New Relationship between Researchers and the Community (2014–2018)
http://researchers.uq.edu.au/research-project/15622
Documenting the Australian Paralympic story - 7 Aug 2019 (editor's note: This website as part of the project went live DURING Fram's ARBCOM trial *boggle*)
https://habs.uq.edu.au/article/2019/08/ ... mpic-storyThe website...The project, titled ‘Creating Histories of the Australian Paralympic Movement: A New Relationship between Researchers and the Community’, has three major components: Wikipedia pages, a website, and a book (which is at manuscript stage).The credits contain some familiar names...The website, Paralympic Stories, was launched in April 2019, and is a major milestone for the project.
https://paralympichistory.org.au/credits/Leigh Blackall, Greg Blood, Vicki Epstein, Laura Hale, Tara MacPhail, Ross Mallett, Patricia Ollerenshaw, Graham Pearce, John Vandenberg, Liz Watt from the HOPAU Wikipedia and e-history group, the ongoing group that has contributed more than anyone else.This official project went on for five years so far and was paid for from government funds.Wikimedia Australia, including Toby Hudson, Pru Mitchell, Kerry Raymond and Steven Zhang.
Think on that.
Actual coordination, however, started much earlier.
Australian Paralympic History Project
https://www.paralympic.org.au/programs/ ... y-project/This smells to high heaven and should probably result in WMAU getting the same treatment that WMUK got for GibraltarPedia and the QRCode debacle.Wikipedia
Since 2010, Paralympics Australia has enjoyed a relationship with Wikimedia Australia, the parent body for Wikipedia in Australia.
Nearly 1,000 new articles relating to Paralympic sport, especially Paralympic sport in Australia, have been created, including articles about every Australian Paralympic medallist and every member of the Australian Paralympic Team from 2012 to 2018. During the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, these articles were viewed more than 1.9 million times.
In 2017, more than 50 volunteer editors were involved in creating and updating Paralympic content. Paralympics Australia runs workshops annually for new and existing editors.
The parallels are between these two grifts are compelling to say the least.
How much money has been spent on WMAU based grifts?
And the book
https://www.paralympic.org.au/wp-conten ... ersion.pdfThe grifting never stops.Written history
The narrative contained within the written history of the
Paralympic movement in Australia will wind through the history
project, connecting its elements in a multidimensional tapestry.
The primary vehicle for the presentation of the written history
will be online.
The online narrative will link to Wikipedia articles about athletes
and other key participants; it will link to photos; it will link to the
oral histories, to videos; and it will reference the APC’s physical
collections such as memorabilia and the library.
The written history will utilise recent successful online storytelling
techniques to tell the story of the Paralympic movement in
Australia in a compelling way that can be accessed linearly or
non-linearly. A “print on demand” book version is also planned.
The APC has commissioned the University of Queensland to
create the written history. UQ has received additional funding
through a National Research Council grant of $240,000 for the
project, which is seen as an innovative way of telling history.
To summarize, dear reader:
* Every time Fram tried to fix any Paralympic article, he was up against an entire group of people who were editing collectively.
* They coordinated off-wiki, there was money involved, they conspired to flood DYK, GA, FA, Front Page, and other venues to generate page views.
* Laura Hale, like Roger Bamkin in GibraltarPedia, had a scheme to monetize, off wiki in a private project (http://www.para-sports.es), the work she was already paid by HOPAU for.
* Internally, these editors had air cover from Arbs, WMF employees and at least one member of the Board of Trustees.
* Externally, they had the support of the universities, the Australian government and at least one member of Parliament.
* ARBCOM, at Trust and Safety insistence, has started an official case against FRAM, but can't seem point to anything that Fram has done wrong.
* ARBCOM desperately needs to start the WP:BOOMERANG (so apt) case against everyone involved in this scheme.
The stench of corruption is so strong here that nothing else can be discerned but its reek.
Wikipedia, you guys need to clean this with fire or you are complicit through inaction.
When the next paid grifter comes prowling on en.wp, you won't be able to turn them away.
Why is Courcelles still editing?Vigilant wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 3:35 pmCreating Histories of the Australian Paralympic Movement: A New Relationship between Researchers and the Community (2014–2018)
http://researchers.uq.edu.au/research-project/15622
Documenting the Australian Paralympic story - 7 Aug 2019 (editor's note: This website as part of the project went live DURING Fram's ARBCOM trial *boggle*)
https://habs.uq.edu.au/article/2019/08/ ... mpic-storyThe website...The project, titled ‘Creating Histories of the Australian Paralympic Movement: A New Relationship between Researchers and the Community’, has three major components: Wikipedia pages, a website, and a book (which is at manuscript stage).The credits contain some familiar names...The website, Paralympic Stories, was launched in April 2019, and is a major milestone for the project.
https://paralympichistory.org.au/credits/Leigh Blackall, Greg Blood, Vicki Epstein, Laura Hale, Tara MacPhail, Ross Mallett, Patricia Ollerenshaw, Graham Pearce, John Vandenberg, Liz Watt from the HOPAU Wikipedia and e-history group, the ongoing group that has contributed more than anyone else.This official project went on for five years so far and was paid for from government funds.Wikimedia Australia, including Toby Hudson, Pru Mitchell, Kerry Raymond and Steven Zhang.
Think on that.
Actual coordination, however, started much earlier.
Australian Paralympic History Project
https://www.paralympic.org.au/programs/ ... y-project/This smells to high heaven and should probably result in WMAU getting the same treatment that WMUK got for GibraltarPedia and the QRCode debacle.Wikipedia
Since 2010, Paralympics Australia has enjoyed a relationship with Wikimedia Australia, the parent body for Wikipedia in Australia.
Nearly 1,000 new articles relating to Paralympic sport, especially Paralympic sport in Australia, have been created, including articles about every Australian Paralympic medallist and every member of the Australian Paralympic Team from 2012 to 2018. During the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, these articles were viewed more than 1.9 million times.
In 2017, more than 50 volunteer editors were involved in creating and updating Paralympic content. Paralympics Australia runs workshops annually for new and existing editors.
The parallels are between these two grifts are compelling to say the least.
How much money has been spent on WMAU based grifts?
And the book
https://www.paralympic.org.au/wp-conten ... ersion.pdfThe grifting never stops.Written history
The narrative contained within the written history of the
Paralympic movement in Australia will wind through the history
project, connecting its elements in a multidimensional tapestry.
The primary vehicle for the presentation of the written history
will be online.
The online narrative will link to Wikipedia articles about athletes
and other key participants; it will link to photos; it will link to the
oral histories, to videos; and it will reference the APC’s physical
collections such as memorabilia and the library.
The written history will utilise recent successful online storytelling
techniques to tell the story of the Paralympic movement in
Australia in a compelling way that can be accessed linearly or
non-linearly. A “print on demand” book version is also planned.
The APC has commissioned the University of Queensland to
create the written history. UQ has received additional funding
through a National Research Council grant of $240,000 for the
project, which is seen as an innovative way of telling history.
To summarize, dear reader:
* Every time Fram tried to fix any Paralympic article, he was up against an entire group of people who were editing collectively.
* They coordinated off-wiki, there was money involved, they conspired to flood DYK, GA, FA, Front Page, and other venues to generate page views.
* Laura Hale, like Roger Bamkin in GibraltarPedia, had a scheme to monetize, off wiki in a private project (http://www.para-sports.es), the work she was already paid by HOPAU for.
* Internally, these editors had air cover from Arbs, WMF employees and at least one member of the Board of Trustees.
* Externally, they had the support of the universities, the Australian government and at least one member of Parliament.
* ARBCOM, at Trust and Safety insistence, has started an official case against FRAM, but can't seem point to anything that Fram has done wrong.
* ARBCOM desperately needs to start the WP:BOOMERANG (so apt) case against everyone involved in this scheme.
The stench of corruption is so strong here that nothing else can be discerned but its reek.
Wikipedia, you guys need to clean this with fire or you are complicit through inaction.
When the next paid grifter comes prowling on en.wp, you won't be able to turn them away.
Brad Brown is FUCKING COWARD.Vigilant wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2019 2:42 amNo it's not. Of course this was going to happen.Randy from Boise wrote:The other way around is truly the best of all possible worlds...DHeyward wrote:I'm hoping you meant it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. But maybe the other way avoids the pile-on.Vigilant wrote:It is better to live on your feet than die on your knees.
I have sympathy for Arbcom's dilemma, I really do. They have to do something here, otherwise T&S will declare community processes null and void and continue with their absolutely unacceptable central dictation of day-to-day behavior on En-WP. But they really screwed the pooch by accepting the T&S premise that HARASSMENT was axiomatic and must be eliminated through secret complaint and unilateral secret action. They should have fought for our established system of governance from the very top; but they surrendered and now they get to reap what they have sown.
Bad move by them.
I think Silk Tork and WTT are behaving as well as they can. I have a high degree of confidence in Opabinia r. But they've painted themselves into a corner by running this as a secret operation. They should just do what they said they were gonna do, detool The Tool out of process and hope that T&S has learned something from this fiasco. Arbcom is gonna take their lumps either way, there's really no good outcome for them at this point. Why they are dragging this out now is a mystery.
RfB
They're political amateurs with no real authority, experience or competence in arbitration.
Instead of framing the questions themselves, they allowed Trust and Safety to set the boundaries prior to even seeing the 'supar secret dossier'.
They were forced to accept the premise that Fram did something bad because they let the enemy, Trust and Safety, set the battlefield order.
They still have a few ways to get out with their honor, but it's unpalatable to them because personal honor isn't valuable let alone paramount to any of them.
They could do the right thing, but it is too damn hard.
AN ENTIRE COHORT OF MOTHERFUCKING COWARDS.Vigilant wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2019 1:31 pmSilk Tork on the Proposed Decision talk page.* GiantSnowman - Fram was explicitly found to have acted correctlyespecially when there may be several incidents, albeit they are close to the line rather than clearly over it. Incidents such as those in the GS case, the outburst toward ArbCom, the refocus of attention on a contributor who had requested that another admin should look into their behaviour if there was a concern, the revert through protection, and others need to be considered.
* Fuck ARBCOM 'outburst' - red herring. Nobody is going to get desysoped for lese majesty
* the refocus of attention on a contributor who had requested that another admin should look into their behaviour if there was a concern- That's Laura Hale et al, the real focus of this case.
* Revert through protection - following an edit through protection? Restoring the state prior to the edit through protection? That's not desysoping stuff.
* Some amorphous 'others' that 'need to be considered' - if they were serious, they'd be enumerated.
As I predicted, this case was all about Laura Hale and her grift getting disrupted and everything else in the Trust and Safety dossier was chaff designed to obfuscate that Laura Hale's corrupt complaint was the driving force for the Trust and Safety action.
How does this work with the Chair of the Board of Trustees so deeply enmeshed?
Can anyone trust ARBCOM if a case is to be opened on this conspiracy of dunces?
What could the remedy from a case held on en.wp be?
With Katherine Maher shown to be a smiling zero and Jimmy Wales always having been an empty suit, are there no avenues for redress of this complaint?
Why is the Great Community Hope, Doc James, assiduously keeping his head down during this corrupt editing debacle? *cough*coward*cough*
It appears that Maria Sefidari Huici and Laura Hale are the true Untouchables here.
The first Royal family of Wikipedia...
Chew on that, peasants.
Brad Brown ran away before when I showed everyone on en.wp exactly how dirty he was with Laura Hale and the paid editing for HOPAU.
The book's author, a Prof. Murray Phillips (T-H-L), is giving a presentation for the (virtual) Wikihistories conference entitlted "Tensions, Compromises and Achievements: Developing the Australian Paralympic Wikipedia History Project."Vigilant wrote: ↑Thu Sep 12, 2019 3:35 pmAnd the book
https://www.paralympic.org.au/wp-conten ... ersion.pdf
For the record...
This guy was hip deep in the Laura Hale/Maria Sefidari Huici paid editing scandal.Change to the Checkuser team
Following a request to the Committee, the CheckUser permissions of Courcelles (talk · contribs · blocks · protections · deletions · page moves · rights · RfA) have been restored. For the Arbitration Committee, Barkeep49 (talk) 18:13, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
Vigilant wrote: ↑Sun Mar 26, 2023 6:11 amJust in case anybody forgets that Courcelles was deeply involved in the biggest scam on en.wp EVER.Vigilant wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:38 pmWhat an interesting document
Wikimedia Paralympic history project - Wikimedia Australia* The success of the project in attracting editors with a disability supports diversity within the Wikipedia
editing community. These editors include Melissa Carlton, Elizabeth Edmondson and Graham Pearce.
* Approximately half of the editors involved in the Paralympic history project are female, including new
editors Tara McPhail, Melissa Carlton, Patricia Ollerenshaw, Rebekka Wake, and Elizabeth Edmondson.
In addition, experienced editor Laura Hale has been the most prodigious contributor to the project.Existing editors
* The project has engaged with experienced existing editors. By supporting them, providing resources,
feedback, and opportunities for collaboration and recognition, the project has sought to enhance their
involvement with Wikipedia and to regenerate their interest.
* Editors such as Laura Hale, John Vandenberg, Graham Pearce, Ross Mallett, Toby Hudson, and Robert
Myers have made major contributions to the project by creating and editing articles, taking photos of
events, doing interviews, writing Wikinews stories and training and mentoring new editors.
* Existing editors have seen sufficient value in the program that some of them have spent large amounts
of their own money to attend events in Australia and overseas. For example, in November 2013, Ross
Mallett travelled from Canberra to Bangkok to cover the Asia-Oceania wheelchair basketball zonal
championships, and John Vandenberg travelled from Jakarta to Bangkok to for the same event.Making most of these contributions entirely suspect...A library of Paralympic sport images.
* Since the project commenced, 1,763 images have been uploaded into Wikimedia Commons for use in
Wikipedia articles about Paralympic sport.
* These images have been used extensively across the different language versions of Wikipedia to
illustrate articles about Paralympic sport. For example, this image of Priya Cooper appears in three
English language articles as well as articles in six other language versions of Wikipedia.
* One of the aims of the project is to make available 35,000 images from the APC‟s collection.
Game over, right there.A precedent of editing and reporting at the Paralympic Games
Wikimedia Australia and the Australian Paralympic Committee combined to fund the first media
accreditations of Wikipedia editors at the Paralympic Games, when they sent two editors to the London
2012 Paralympic Games under the “Wikimedians to the Games” (W2G) project.
The two Wikimedians who attended the Games published 69 Wikinews articles during the Games,
conducted thirteen interviews, uploaded a number of images to Wikimedia Commons and updated
Wikipedia articles about the Games and the Paralympic movement. The report of the W2G project is
contained in Attachment B.
Expanding this concept internationally, one of the W2G Wikimedians, Laura Hale, will take a team of
accredited Ukrainian Wikinews reporters to the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games.
Because Ukrainian Wikipedia lacks a great deal of Paralympic content and in preparation for Sochi, Laura and her team are working on creating a way to bulk create articles as many Paralympic medallists and world record holders as possible. Laura has also talked to people involved with four other language Wikipedia projects who have indicated their interest in bulk creating articles about Paralympic medallists if a standardised data file is available to allow ease of translation.
The Australian Paralympic Committee is keen to support Wikimedians to attend the 2016 Paralympic
Summer Games in Rio.
Laura Hale bulk produced shit articles for pay.
Everyone knew what was going on an protected her.
Here's her status report to her employer.Enumerated tasks from her employerATTACHMENT A: W2G
A report on the Wikimedians to the Games project
Adapted and including tabular data from a report written by Laura Hale
CC-BY http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/File:H ... ympics.pdfProTip: You guys got screwed. The articles were garbage.Laura Hale conducted a Wikinews workshop in London August 2012 in the lead-up to the Games.
Upon nomination as one of the W2G, Laura Hale worked with the APC and other HoPAu editors to:
• create articles about all 161 Australian 2012 Summer Paralympians;
• place pictures of every 2012 Australian Paralympian on Wikimedia Commons and in their Wikipedia
article;
• create an extensive set of articles about as many Paralympic classification classes as possible (127
created);
• publish articles on Wikinews in lead-up to London Games;
• donated images taken by the Wiki community of Australian Paralympic sport to Wikimedia
Commons(more than 250 images); and
• Upload Paralympic related interviews to Wikimedia Commons (10).
These articles all need to be rereviewed in light of the conflict of interest editing12 HoPAu supported articles have earned Good Article status. Of these, 10 are about London
Paralympians: Angie Ballard, Jennifer Blow, Meica Christensen, Ellie Cole, Nicole Esdaile, Jessica Gallagher,
Rachel Henderson, Michelle Rzepecki, Tyan Taylor, Teigan Van Roosmalen. Of these, 6 achieved their status
a month before the start of the Games.
Ah, Commons got extensively shit in as well.Wikimedia Commons
In the lead-up to London, the Australian Paralympic Committee uploaded more than 600 images to
Wikimedia Commons, an image sharing resource which is part of the Wikimedia project. In addition,
images were uploaded by people involved with the project, including LauraHale and Bidgee, who
photographed at events in Australia in the lead-up to the Games. One image taken by a participant was
used in a television broadcast about the men‟s wheelchair basketball team in the lead-up to London.
Wikinews, a Laura Hale creation from whole cloth was also involved. No surprises there.Wikinews
Table 3 summarises the Wikinews articles by sport published in the Paralympic period. Table 4 breaks down
the articles according to the country of the subjects of the stories. During the Games, articles were written
about athletes from 29 different countries.
A list of the involvedI deleted the non-wikipediots.Attachment B
Project contributors
To date, the Paralympic history project has been very successful in harnessing the contributions of a large
number of people and providing the opportunity for them to contribute according to their interests and
areas of expertise.
This attachment illustrates the breadth of the input to the project from more than 30 people, most of who
continue to be involved in some way.
Not all contributors edit Wikipedia.
Facilitators
In the early stages of the project Leigh Blackall and Professor Keith Lyons from the University of Canberra
were instrumental in developing the project concept and initial strategies and making the introductions to
representatives of Wikimedia Australia which were crucial in establishing the project.
Leigh Blackall has been involved in Wikimedia for a very long time, but with low level of contributions outside
of his own professional activity. He was a key organiser of RecentChangesCamp Canberra which WMAU
supported. He envisaged Wikimedia having a role to play in the Paralympic history project, and wrote the
tender for the written history component of the project. He was instrumental in gaining the support of
WMAU. During this time, Leigh ran Wikipedia workshops in Australia, with libraries and education institutions.
Leigh set up the project blog and the Google Group which is the main communication tool for the project.
Existing editors
The project has been fortunate to attract extensive input from a group of experienced editors. Some of
them have made extensive time and financial commitments to the project. They have also played a
significant role in assisting and mentoring new editors.
* Laura Hale had minor Wikimedia roles in the past, and was also a key organiser of
RecentChangesCamp Canberra, but it was the Paralympic history project that pulled Laura into the
Wikipedia world, and under this project she was engaged as Australia's first 'Wikimedian in Residence'. It
had rocky times, and didn't fit the mold of other Wikimedian in Residence, but she is a content creation
machine, and this was a critical component of the project. The 'Wikimedian in Residence' mould has
since been broken a few times with the Open Science and Consumer Reports WIRs.
Laura Hale has been a 1000+ edit per month contributor for over 24 months. Laura was sent to the
London Paralympics through the Wikimedians to the Games project. She continues to contribute to
Paralympic topics, and has taken some of the project concepts to Spain and Ukraine.
* John Vandenberg is now heavily devoted to the HOPAU project, both in his time and has spent over $10,000 of his own money on this project since 2011.
* Ross Mallett is now heavily devoted to the HOPAU project, both in his time and has spent over $10,000 of his own money on this project since 2012. Ross Mallett was sent to the London Paralympics through
the Wikimedians to the Games project. He attends Paralympic events in Australia and internationally and has created a number of articles about Paralympic sport in countries in the Asia Pacific region.
* Graham Pearce has contributed significantly to the HOPAU project, doing radio interviews, copyediting and polishing hundreds of articles, constantly monitoring the content for changes, and working closely with subjects to help them contribute to Wikipedia through him, and usually these contributions are adding quality rather than quantity - getting the small details right.
* Toby Hudson has photographed events and edited a number of articles, including the Wikipedia page "Disability in Australia" created in September 2013, which is 2,555 words of prose.
* Steven Zhang expanded “Amanda Fraser” and guided it onto the front page of English Wikipedia as a “Did You Know?”. Steven put a lot of time into the wording of this article, and was thanked by Tony
Naar and the subject‟s family for delicate handling of a touchy subject.
* Robert Myers (Bidgee) has attended many Paralympic events, contributing photos to the project and editing articles relating to the events.
New editors
The project has attracted a number of new editors from within the Paralympic movement and others who
had previously not had an active role in Paralympic sport. As with the existing editors, for some of these new
editors, the project has been a vehicle for their engagement with Paralympic sport.
Paralympians editing Wikipedia
* Elizabeth Edmondson was a Paralympic gold medallist at the 1964 and 1968 Paralympic Games. She attended the first project‟s workshop in Perth and has continued to edit and contribute to the project in
other ways since that time.
* Melissa Carlton is a Tasmanian swimmer who attended the first Brisbane workshop and became an active editor, with a specific interest in Tasmanian athletes, coaches and officials.
* User: Sportygeek is a current female Paralympian who commenced editing Wikipedia in January 2013 and has amassed 1,056 edits in her first year of editing, mostly improving Paralympic topics, and has
created several new articles.
Other new editors
* Tara McPhail was told about the HOPAU project by occasional editor Chris Gould (who was introduced to the project through her role at the National Sports Information Centre), who was a neighbour. Tara thought it would be a good project to volunteer for and attended the classification workshop in Canberra. Inspired by the topical area, and challenged by the laissez-faire nature of wikis, Tara threw herself into the tasks at hand in the HOPAU project, including creating flyers, transcribing audio, uploading photos, etc. Tara was a highly active editor for almost 12 months, has participated in meetups, spoken about the project at the national librarians‟ conference, and continues to edit occasionally.
* Greg Blood had retired from the National Sports Information Centre at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and was interested in using Wikipedia to assist in gathering material to write a book about the history of the AIS. He was recruited to the project by Tony Naar, who manages the project for the APC. Greg decided to start an account and give it a try in January 2012. He has since written more than 30 articles, has been an active editor every month, and is often a „very active‟ editor, and has 5,111 edits in less than two years of contributing. Since the 2102 Paralympics he has continued to edit Wikipedia, widening his interests to include drugs in sport in Australia, the organisation of sport in Australia, sport and the 2013 Australian federal election and the AIS.
* Vicki Epstein is the wife of Paralympian Ray Epstein and has written a book on the history of the disability sport in Queensland. Her interest is in Queensland athletes and she is an active contributor to the HOPAU email group.
* Tony Naar manages the Paralympic history project for the APC.
* Rebekka Wake works in the communications division of the APC.
* Patricia Ollerenshaw has been an active volunteer with the APC since 2001 and currently focuses on sourcing material for the history project. She has attended two workshops and written articles about
people who have been missed by other editors.
* Graham Pearce's mother, Linda, contributes enormously to the HOPAU project indirectly, assisting and
supporting Graham in many varied ways. Graham's work in this project is described above. As just one
example, Linda has searched newspaper article scans for reliable sources.
* Stephen Townsend is a post-graduate student at UQ and has become involved in editing through the involvement of UQ. He has written a Wikipedia article (at the SLQ workshops), published academic articles about Wikipedia, and fixed an error identified as part of his research.
* User: Lucky102 (Ireland and Sydney) began editing Wikipedia during the 2012 Paralympic Games, working on Paralympic topics relevant to the ongoing Paralympic Games. They have made more than 1,500 contributions in 1.5 years and have created 34 articles.
Non-Australian
* Courcelles has reviewed many of the disability sport articles, and participates in the HOPAU discussions. He supports the HOPAU project however he can.
* Roger Conroy has been a disability sport contributor for a long time and has also joined the HOPAU project team, and has seen the benefits of HOPAU to the entire Paralympics area. He continues to support the project.
* User:Axid in France has been writing articles about the Paralympics and Paralympians for a long time. In 2011 and 2013 he has expressed his support for the project and helps whenever he can.
* Brian McNeil from the UK is another editor who supports the program.
* Siska, Kartika, Ivonne, Revo and Risky attended the 2012 Paralympics workshop in Jakarta.
* Kartika and Ivonne have uploaded batches of images to Wikimedia Commons.
Other project contributors
This is a conspiracy to edit wikipedia for cash.
* One of the named participants, Laura Hale, is the wife of Maria Sefidari Huici, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation.
* Another of the named participants is Courcelles who is married to Karen Brown on the Trust and Safety gang.
Vigilant wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2019 12:42 amhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants: ... ch_Oceania
This is from before the WMAU/Paralympics grift.
2011...They seem closeParticipation
LauraHale , Courcelles , Hawkeye7 and Chzz are leading the in-person outreach efforts.Courcelles was already deep into en.wpShort response to beria
Too hard for one person to do. Australians are not cheaper. Region is historical connected to USA. Asia might be cheaper but visas come into play. Need decision ASAP to find chapter solution if WMF not funding. If I take one, I pick Courcelles. --LauraHale 21:46, 13 December 2011 (UTC)Looks like they moved on to the next grift together.User:Courcelles -Admin, OS, CU, Abuse filter, with over 200,000 edits, among the 100 most active editors on en.wp. Active on IRC, well trusted and liked by the community.
Good to see you stop by.
