On a couple of points of fact:

The motion to ban Fae was not presented by ArbCom until Monday 16 July and came as a complete surprise to those of us who had been following the case. Prior to that Fae had voluntarily resigned his sysop and declared that he would not seen another RfA for at least 12 months.

Fae was elected Chair of WCA on Wednesday 11 July (if I recall correctly). Here's the diff to the PD page at the end of that day:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/F%C3%A6/Proposed_decision&oldid=501787685

Nobody reading that could conclude that Fae was getting any more than a "slap on the wrist". Yet the motion to ban came without any further presentation of evidence, or discussion at the workshop. It's easy to criticise with 20/20 hindsight, but it is very unfair to suggest that Fae was concealing anything significant when he stood for election at WCA. Besides all that, he's made a good job of it.

Secondly, enwp is not the centre of the world for many editors - and Fae is one of them. He has three times as many edits to Commons as he has to enwp. There is still plenty of work for him to do within the other Wikimedia projects, not least of which is the excellent work he continues to do in the GLAM field.

--
Doug



On 26 July 2012 17:39, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 26 July 2012 17:33, Martin Peeks <martinp23@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Charles Matthews
> <charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> Deryck Chan, who was at the relevant meeting (I believe), expressed a
>> rather different view earlier in this thread. In brief, enWP is not
>> the centre of the WMF universe.
>
>
> To those outside the movement, and probably most of those within, it
> is, isn't it?
>

The English Wikipedia is indeed the flagship, still. I believe the
Spanish Wikipedia gets the second-largest number of readers. But the
figure for editors given at Wikimania was 80,000 across all projects,
and the proportion of those active on the English Wikipedia in a
significant way would be about 5%, I think. So in terms of the
movement as a whole, enWP drama is not actually more than a cable
channel?

Charles

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