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1. Re: Management of this mailing list (Erkan Yilmaz)
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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:57:55 +0200
From: Erkan Yilmaz <erkan77(a)gmail.com>
To: Abd ulRahman Lomax <abdlomax(a)yahoo.com>
Cc: Mailing list for Wikiversity <wikiversity-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikiversity-l] Management of this mailing list
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Hi Abd,
since you can not edit:
I've posted a request in the colloquium:
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Colloquium#WV:_Mailing_list_prob…
Erkan
P.S. God save all people who survive
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Abd ulRahman Lomax <abdlomax(a)yahoo.com
wrote:
Well, Cormaggio has not edited Wikipedia for more
than a year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Cormaggio&a…
He has not edited Wikiversity for almost two years.
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cormaggio.
Cormaggio has been inactive everywhere in the WMF, at least through this
unified log-in.
Sebmol is listed as a manager of this list as well. He has not edited
Wikiversity since March 2011, when he noted he was inactive and was
willing
to be removed as a bureaucrat.
http://en.wikiversity.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiversity:Community_Review/Ab…
Sebmol has been active on de. wikipedia, this
year. Not much.
It's obvious. We don't have an active list moderator. The complaining
account is indeed listed as a member receiving the digest.
If we get another echo from Harry, I'm going to take an action that might
resolve the problem for him. I'm going to request a password restoration
message in his name. If he responds to it, as he has to other messages,
we
might be able to fix this for him. Unorthodox,
yes, but it will not do
any
actual harm to him, since he wants to be
unsubscribed to all WMF lists,
apparently. It risks revealing his password. Note that anyone could do
this
for any of us.... that's how the listserve
works. I'm not using any
special
privilege. The password is mailed to the
subscription address, and if the
user responds to mails without looking at them, he's in danger anyway.
Of course, if he starts paying attention, he can indeed fix this himself,
the listserv seems to be working normally.
I already requested unsubscription in his name. If he follows the
instructions in that mail, he'll be unsubscribed and we won't hear from
him
again.
Meanwhile, the lack of list administration is a possible problem, this
particular manifestation is relatively minor. We are probably losing
subscribers over this, but only a list manager can tell, if they can
access
the logs.
I'd act to fix this, on-wiki, but ... I 'm still blocked from almost a
year ago, the unblock template on my Talk page has no response, in spite
of
some request from the community, ignored. WV is,
in many respects, dead.
Such community as still exists stopped paying attention to central
administrative matters, and so the technocrats rule, but they also lose
interest, so in some areas, there is nobody ruling or acting. I basically
gave up, given lack of purposeful community response supporting what I
was
doing. A majority isn't enough! When there is
a lack of consensus on
specific actions, admins have free reign, and policy doesn't matter. I
was
blocked for defending long-standing community
policy on blocking. I'd
just
been desysopped outside of policy, as an
"emergency" on meta. The
emergency
was that I'd acted, according to policy,
reversing after discussion
(once,
not wheel-warring) a block of another user made
by the 'crat who then
requested the desysop, and, when a user changed the policy abusively, I
requested custodian attention and was blocked for not other offense than
civilly requesting attention.
And the block proved that the policy wasn't worth the paper it wasn't
written on. The real policy: a 'crat can do whatever he likes, can block
anyone he doesn't like. No consequences, and no appeal is of any use. And
the 'crat doesn't need to be, at all, an active WV user, he can just pop
in
> whenever.
>
> I don't know where requests to add moderators are handled (meta?).
>
> *From:* Erkan Yilmaz <erkan77(a)gmail.com>
> *To:* Abd ulRahman Lomax <abdlomax(a)yahoo.com>om>; Mailing list for
> Wikiversity <wikiversity-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> *Sent:* Sunday, September 30, 2012 1:22 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Wikiversity-l] Management of this mailing list
>
> Harry had this request/game some time ago, where I tried to help him
> not sure why he could not succeed
>
> afaik: Cormac is mod of the mailing list, he should be able to do
> something about this
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cormaggio
>
> Erkan
>
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Abd ulRahman Lomax <abdlomax(a)yahoo.com
wrote:
>
> The sequence reveals that no moderator is both monitoring this list and
> willing to respond to the request, and possibly the listserver is not
> working properly.
>
> Yes, the user should be able to handle his own unsubscription and is
being
obtuse, repeating a message, insistently, to
people who can't do anything
about the situation, and perhaps not following instructions that come
with
every mail, or if he is, he is not requesting
help, describing the
specific
problem encountered, he is merely demanding that
someone DO SOMETHING TO
FIX THIS!
A common reason would be that the user no longer has access to an account
for sending mail, but is still receiving mail to that account. If that is
the case here, then Harry isn't telling anyone what the account is. The
complete headers from a list mail to him would show what's happening.
(Below, I figure out that this is not the case here. It's commonly a case
with open mailing lists, this list is, however, closed.)
STOP and all that does absolutely nothing. The instructions below do say
how to unsubscribe. One of Harry's mails seems to be a response to a mail
from wikiversity-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org and it looks like the
subject was not created as instructed for unsubscription.
If Harry tells us what he has done, and what happened, we will then know
more specifically what to do about it. I'm not personally going to file a
complaint with the overall
wikimedia.org listserver administration
unless
I can verify a problem. And they are quite
likely, given the massive
subscription lists, to ignore complaints written in all caps that don't
provide adequate information.
To find out if the listserver is operating, I entered a number of
commands
through the web interface, which is *public*. I
merely need enter the
subscribed email address. The page is at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiversity-l
On that page, in the "Wikiversity-l" subscribers section, after entering
my subscribed email address, I pressed the "unsubscribe or edit options"
button.
I got a member options page acknowledging my email address as a
subscriber, and one of the buttons was unsubscribe. I pressed the
unsubscribe button, and, after a few minutes' delay, I received a
confirmation mail. If I had responded with no changes to that mail, I
presume I'd have been unsubscribed. I'd forgotten my password, which is
not
needed for unsubscription, so I then pressed the
password reminder button
and my password was emailed to me. Using the password, I logged in to the
member options page. There is also an immediate unsubscription option
there
(since they know it's you because you logged
in with the password.)
So I did the same, using the Harry address from the mails. I then pressed
an unsubscribe bottom, which, if Harry is a subscriber, would send him a
confirmation mail, with instructions that, if followed carefully, will
unsubscribe him. On the other hand, I tested this with a ridiculous
subscription address. The interface does not reveal if the person is a
subscriber or not.
If Harry does not receive a mail, he can then strongly infer that he is
not, under this email address, subscribed to the list. That, then, means
that *nobody* can help him, unless he provides the subscription mailing
address.
However, it is very likely that Harry is a subscriber, because the list
will reject mails from non-subscribers. I just tested that. Harry's
mails,
from his gmail address, are not being held for
moderator approval. (If a
moderator has set automatic approval, it would go through, but he'd also
be
getting the message held for approval message.
I've seen a moderator set
up
automatic bounce approval when the moderation
didn't want to surrender
control but also didn't have the time to actually manage the list.)
Harry, when you are in the middle of an amygdala hijack, you may not be
able to respond to instructions clearly. See if you can do whatever you
know to do to relax, have some tea or coffee, get to a place of calm, and
then try unsubscribing, reading everything carefully. You may find that
this fixes the interface, in a way that shouting doesn't.
The amazing thing here is how long the hijack has lasted.
Plus, I'm getting that we don't have a moderator who is regularly
watching
this list and ready to fix problems.
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