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

Wed Jul 6 06:09:27 UTC 2005

A new parallel wikinews project was started on meta by several 
wikinewsisies : http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Open_English

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Kyle Lutze a écrit:
> bleh, I feel like an idiot now, the four people I'm talking to in
> private messages about this on irc are adding in details they didn't
> tell me before :/
> 
> let me clarify really fast:
> Erik is his real name
> Xirzon is his IRC nick
> Eloquence is his wikinews name
> Ida_mayhem is his bot name
> 
> sorry I didn't mention that earlier
> 
> Ok, I have now been informed that nGerda was blocked validly. I was told
> he was just blocked and the Erik was doing this improperly. Once I
> posted this email, I was told otherwise. I feel like an idiot right
> now,  sorry for that :(
> 
> As for the specific examples, I'm making those fools dig up evidence now
> as I'm a tad bit embarrassed that they told me lies in the first place.
> 
> Once again, sorry,
> Kyle
> 
> Nathan Reed wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm a nobody at Wikinews, but...
>>
>>User:Xirzon doesn't exist and User:Erik is not a sysop and has no
>>edits. What aliases is Kyle referring to?
>>
>>NGerda appears to have been validly blocked after a 3RR rule -- I
>>think he would have been blocked earlier but all the available admins
>>were involved in the dispute.
>>
>>Perhaps kyle can cite specific examples (with diffs?)?
>>
>>--User:Chiacomo
>>
>>On 7/6/05, Kyle Lutze <kylelutze at cox.net> wrote:
>> 
>>
>>
>>>Kyle Lutze wrote:
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>>>>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
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