Yeah okay, thanks for another mail about this.
It could possible that i was also being a kind of rude but i felt
threatened. Please respect it that i can felt threatened. I think the best
thing is now to let it go. Like also somebody on the channel said.\
-----Original Message-----
From: brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org [mailto:brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org]
Sent: maandag 28 september 2009 16:34
To: Wikinews mailing list
Cc: Tahrim_Ramdjan(a)planet.nl
Subject: RE: [Wikinews-l] Fwd: Wikinews e-mail about IRC complaining
It may not be the way you handle things at the Dutch Wikipedia, but
you're getting quite a few things wrong here.
First, you were complaining about a problem on YOUR PC, no amount of
hacking about with the code on the wiki is going to fix that.
Second, IRC channels are not provided by the Wikimedia Foundation. They
are completely independent and have nothing to do with rules like "Don't
bite the newbies". Having said that, there is no indication anyone
actually bit or otherwise abused you. You refused to see that the
problem was on your end and nobody could help you remotely. The
tongue-in-cheek joke you provoked was mild, and simply not a reason to
devote so much effort, so long after the fact, to produce an extended
complaint.
Brian.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Fwd: Wikinews e-mail about IRC complaining
From: "Tahrim Ramdjan" <Tahrim_Ramdjan(a)planet.nl>
Date: Mon, September 28, 2009 1:29 pm
To: "'Jon Davis'" <wiki(a)konsoletek.com>om>, "'Wikinews
mailing list'"
<wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
So it seems i did things wrong... :S Well, i only know that this isnt the
way we handle at the Dutch Wikipedia, but sorry by then and goodbye.
_____
From: jon(a)snowulf.com [mailto:jon@snowulf.com] On Behalf Of Jon Davis
Sent: maandag 28 september 2009 4:51
To: Wikinews mailing list
Cc: TahR78
Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Fwd: Wikinews e-mail about IRC complaining
Wow. Talk about a speedy email about this topic. This conversation
started
August 20th, 2009 @ 05:19 PST (12:19 UTC?).
If the group is curious, I can provided a full copy of the chat
transcript,
but after reading...this is a non issue. The user in
question (Tahr78)
who
I'm CC'ing (out of the kindness of my heart)
was having... difficulties.
He was extremely insistent that our maps were broken, and that there was
no
other explanation. NeoAmsterdam and Gopher65
attempted to explain to the
user that the maps seemed to be working correctly, that the maps were not
country/continent average temperatures (I guess the Netherlands is so
small
they dont bother giving people the weather other than
the national average
temp?!) and that the tooltips showed that the temperature in question was
for East Midlands, England and not the Netherlands. Apparently the users
tooltips were not working, and that's Wikinews's fault. When NeoAmsterdam
explained that this wasn't our fault, the user threw a tantrum.
At this point the conversation goes way down hill with the user repeatedly
quitting and re-joining the channel. Right after he quits the first time,
he gets his "friend" to join the channel under the username
"Olivier_Bommel". The user (along with his friend) continue tossing in
bits
of commentary here or there and generally being a pain
in the ass
After a bit of this on & off, we get to the "threat". Since the user is
accusing NeoAmsterdam of making threats over IRC, I'm pulling out the 4
lines of relevant text here for everyone:
(6:26:46 AM) NeoAmsterdam: Since you insist, TahR78, I'll say it:
(6:26:46 AM) NeoAmsterdam: The Dutch were fools for surrendering New
Amsterdam so quickly to the English.
(6:26:46 AM) NeoAmsterdam: There. I've said it. I feel better.
(6:26:46 AM) NeoAmsterdam: ^_^
In short, there was no threatening behavior going on. NeoAmsterdam did
nothing wrong in my book in handling this user. In fact, if I had been
the
one on, I would have ban hammered both TahR78 and his
friend
Olivier_Bommel
from the channel for being disruptive.
-Jon
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 17:14, Patrick Mannion <patrick.mannion(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Dunno why I got this, I hardly hang out on the IRC channel, but nontheless
something for you guys to look at...
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: TahR78 <tahrim_ramdjan(a)planet.nl>
Date: Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Subject: Wikinews e-mail about IRC complaining
To: TUFKAAP <patrick.mannion(a)gmail.com>
Hi Tufkaap,
Im sorry for disturbing you in this late hour (in where i live, Europe, it
is now night). I want to complain about an user on IRC, he is much on it.
Lets start with the story:
So, i and friends were looking because we were bored, one of my friends
said
that he found a weather map of Europe. We were going
to watch, it was a
Celsius map, but it wasnt right. So we joined the IRC channel of Wikinews
and we were going to report it. First time nobody reacted, second time
also
nobody. Thirth time finally somebody was waken up and
listened to us. I
just
nice said ''Hey, there's a kind of fault
in this template''. The user i've
spoken to, NeoAmsterdam, didnt appreciate that very much. He said to me on
a
not so nice way that i have to look better, because it
are airports. It
would stand on a tooltip. Well, tooltips doesnt work on this computer on
that day, so i made him that clear. Than everybody said something and,
NeoAmsterdam also said that he thinks that the Dutch were stupid to give
New
Amsterdam to the British.
When he said that, i thought he was going to hurt me, but he didnt. First
of
all, i cant fix it that New York isnt now New
Amsterdam, so dont blame me
that and second, it doesnt touch me, because i am born in Holland, but my
parents come from a whole other country. I leaved the channel, but friends
were still on the channel and said me that they were talking bad about me.
Well, i am not hurt, no, i could even laugh about what NeoAmsterdam said.
I
am experienced with wiki's, i have a account on
the Dutch Wikipedia as
well,
and have crossuser on, so i can log in on every
Wikimedia wiki. But i have
also experience on other wiki's like from Wikia. I know this isnt the
usual
way, im sorry for that, but i donk think this is a
nice way to explain
things to (new) users on Wikinews, especially foreigners. Also when you
are
talking bad about a newbie on a wiki, that isnt the
right thing i think?
(Why i choosen you is because when i said on the IRC channel some days
ago,
somebody prefered you. Hope you dont mind my bad
English, because i am not
so old (11, 12 years) and still Dutch, so i am not a very expert in
English.
Hope you understand this situation, maybe i made a big
thing of it but
just
wanted to say this.. Only time when i contributed to
Wikinews was with a
article about the attack on the Dutch queen, no more).
Sorry for the long mail and disturbing you, but i just wanted this to say.
Please note that it is a long time ago when this happened, you will be
surprised why i send this mail NOW, well, its simple: i didnt have any
time.
I have also accounts on other much internet
communities. There were more
people at that IRC conversation but i can only remember NeoAmsterdam.
Greetings from TahR78
----
Want to send a reaction, you can mail this email adress back or leave a
note
on my dutch Wikipedia talk page, my name there is also
TahR78, however i
dont prefer that because it isnt necessary to tell every Dutch Wikipedians
about this story.
--
This e-mail was sent by TahR78 to TUFKAAP by the "E-mail user" function at
Wikinews.
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