[Foundation-l] "Wikidrama" and autonomy of Wikimedia projects

Mon Aug 11 20:34:47 UTC 2008

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Cary Bass <cary at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Scenario 2:
> A user has been banned on enwiki.  The user has "outed" psuedonymous
> individuals via his blog and threads Wikipedia Review by compiling
> information put together elsewhere on the net.  He has taken to another
> wiki and under the auspices of the local wiki's policy, has put back
> links to pages which have links to pages (sometimes several pages deep)
> which "outs" the individuals.
>

Just an additional note to what Cary wrote--this Scenario 2 in turn then
spilled over to a separate third project, where users of the first project
arrived in wide numbers to "vote" in an election of a Checkuser whose home
project was the first project mentioned in the scenario. En.wiki users
arrived on the third project after having in many cases little to no prior
involvement in that third project, to actively vote on the election of a
user who was primarily active on the first one and who had allegedly taken a
side in that initial dispute that had nothing at all to do with the third
project. So that scenario #2 actually impacted three projects, not just
two...

- Joe