[Foundation-l] irresponsible practices, vandalism by sysops, misleading funding calls re: "third world" wikipedia

Tue May 4 01:42:50 UTC 2004

Anti Angela wrote:

> > WikiReaders are an invention of the German Wikipedians,
>  
> This is false.  "Simple English Readings in SUBJECT" were being 
> written on the Simple English Wikipedia before they appeared in 
> German.  They covered such subjects as Cosmology & Health, and were 
> designed to be useful as staged readings for people who were learning 
> English - proceeding from simpler to more complex articles & 
> vocabulary.  Some "Simple English User Stories" were included, a 
> standard technique to illustrate some ways in which the articles might 
> be used by real developing-world end users.  So, what happened to all 
> this?  Vandalism, basically:
>  
> These were unilaterally deleted by "User:Angela" as part of a "clear 
> cut" of policy issues and staging and other material that was clearly 
> directed towards developing-world users. 

142 has had his writing deleted from more wikis than I care to count. 
Angela was hardly doing something extraordinary. And we do have a policy 
of deleting anything written by hard-banned users.

-- Tim Starling