[Foundation-l] Issues regarding admin(s?) on wikinews, effects: globally

Wed Jul 6 05:26:03 UTC 2005

Kyle Lutze wrote:

>There have been slight issues on en.wikinews.org that are quite
>troubling and need to be addressed.
>
>It seems that one of the admins, Eloquence, has been causing many
>problems by abusing his admin/sysop rights. He is also, from what I
>gather, the research director for WMF.
>
>He has now banned other sysops on that wiki, including Nick Gerda
>(ngerda), uses a bunch of aliases that he has given admin status to, and
>has been disregarding the wiki process and community.
>
>Please note, I do not do too much work on the wiki itself, but I keep in
>touch with quite a few people in #wikinews on freenode that have left
>disgruntled because of what Erik/Eloquence has done, which I believe
>just isn't right.
>
>Kyle
>  
>
forgot one of the aliases,
Erik/Eloquence/Xirzon are the one's I've been told

Kyle