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Re: Johannes misbehavior in the wiki, and a request for admin rights (was: wiki "abuse")

From
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 10, 2010, 12:33 UTC
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<20100810123349.GA3921@kytes>
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<4C613DFC.40006@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Hi Felipe, Michael, and Amir,
Michael J Gruber writes:
> Oh, pleaaaze, no (on the subject line). No need for more fuel in this topic.

I agree with Michael. Please don't do this- it's quite distasteful. Johannes might have had a bad day and acted a little inappropriately, Amir might have done something to trigger it, or it might have been a combination of several other things. None of that justifies all the time we're wasting on this issue.

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> > I'd like to propose myself as sysop in order to make the wiki more
> > hospitable. 
> [more detailed proposal cut out]
> 
> Looking at the history of our wiki I don't see any need to overshoot as
> a result of this mostly singular incident. It should suffice to
> 
> - reactivate Amir's account
> - make a clear statement about user pages (limit, discourage or disable)

Right. There was ONE distrubing incident on a Wiki. Let's not blow it out of proportion and waste our time digging up dirt on one of our own contributors.

As part of the community, let us take the reponsibility for this mistake and work towards becoming more friendly towards foreigners as a community. Michel has already suggested some quick steps to take to bury this discussion quickly- I'm in favor of doing it as soon as possible and personally seeing my inbox fill up with patches instead. Not at all to say that we should take the issue lightly, but I never thought we'd discuss it at this length.

Amir: We as a community are sorry that you've been treated
unfairly. Thanks for letting us know; we'll make sure that this
doesn't happen with others in future.
Thanks.
-- Ram
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Message 4 of 14 in “Johannes misbehavior in the wiki, and a request for admin rights (was: wiki "abuse")”
  1. Felipe ContrerasAug 10, 2010
  2. Michael J GruberAug 10, 2010
  3. Felipe ContrerasAug 10, 2010
  4. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 10, 2010
  5. Amir E. AharoniAug 10, 2010
  6. Michael J GruberAug 10, 2010
  7. Felipe ContrerasAug 10, 2010
  8. Sverre RabbelierAug 10, 2010
  9. Avery PennarunAug 10, 2010
  10. Ramkumar RamachandraAug 10, 2010
  11. Felipe ContrerasAug 10, 2010
  12. Avery PennarunAug 10, 2010
  13. Felipe ContrerasAug 10, 2010
  14. Michael WittenAug 10, 2010

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