Announcing my departure from the Wikimedia Foundation

Posted by Cary Bass (cary at wikimedia.org), Mon Aug 2 22:01:04 UTC 2010


More at the link.

But who's going to coordinate the volunteers?

No one.

Cary continues in the next paragraph...

Sarcasm Moulton, sarcasm.

How about this?


Followed by this...


Was that hyperbole, too?

When the Foundation is hiring?
I never could see that he was "extremely good with people" - he got upset, wanted me permanently banned at Commons, then composed an "I was wrong" speech, but did not lift my block.

And now he will enter the priesthood?

If the volunteers aren't coordinated, they could end up with serious ankle and wrist injuries!

My initial response is that his is one of the few positions touching on program areas and it is a steep in the wrong direction. But then think of the job title. They ain't "Volunteers," they are content contributors. God knows they ain't "coordinated" or otherwise managed in a coherent manner. It reminded me of meeting a guy from the Detroit Planning Commission. I fell into rage. I mean it was bad enough that things had got so bad for that great City. That it was planned was more than I could stomach.

Now who are 16 year olds going to turn to when the want access to nonpublic data?

The wmf access to nonpublic data policy says



The intent of the policy (originally posted by Florence Devouard) seems to be that the "user is at least 18 and explicitly over the age at which they are capable to act without the consent of their parent in the jurisdiction in which they reside", but the wording is all wishy-washy.

An aside to MZMcBride, Florence Devouard's wmf user page says she's chairman of the board. That hasn't been true since July 2008.

I'm honestly sad over this.

Fixed. I suppose if I created an account for you over there, someone would yell at me.

Perhaps chagrined, even

Give it a couple days. You might yet get your wish.

In other news: Jesus H. Christ, Florence Devouard hasn't updated her Wikipedia userpage since October 2006??
Did she give up on the whole thing 4 years ago??

That's not her "Wikipedia" user page.

Remind me how we disambiguate Florence Devouard from User:FloNight.

Which one is referred to as "Flo-Flo"?

Which one was on ArbCom?

This is significant in that it demonstrates Sue's increasing control over the organization. Who's left from Before Sue at this point? I think it's just Tim Starling, although there might be a junior sysadmin or two still on the payroll (who's that one guy who lives in Florida whose job it is basically to go into the server room and kick machines when they fall over?).

Cary was hired because he sucked up really really hard to Jimbo, and because he and Jimbo shared a common fetish for famous people. Plus Cary being gay meant that Jimbo didn't have to worry about Cary competing with him for hot babes. His position was never well-defined and looked pretty much like a sinecure. I imagine he was let go simply because his welcome ran out.

Big Flo, aka FloNight, is on Arbcom. Little Flo is Ms. D.

Maybe he figures as a volunteer he can keep all the $CASH$ he'll be getting for those speaking engagments.

Jon

(Sorry if someone already said that — I haven't been following this one.)

Were either of them on the WMF Board of Trustees or otherwise on the WMF Staff?

FD was President of the Board of Trustees. That is not a staff position, however.

Thanks. And which one is called "Flo-Flo"? Is that "Little Flo", the one who was once President of the WMF Board?

Yes, Flo-Flo is Florence Devouard.

FloNight is Sydney L. Poore (and despite the name is definitely female). She's one of the many people who is on Hivemind

http://www.wikipedia-watch.org/hivemind.html#264

despite never having made any secret of her identity or location.

http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FloNight

Cary may be gay, but he can sure pick up women. You should have seen them all fawning all over him at the DC meetup. That boy sure has some skills.

No longer, I think. A pity, as she was saner than average.

Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee

Let me introduce you to the term fag hag (T-H-L-K-D).

Saner? Not hardly. Flo was a vicious little weasel who would promise you anything to get your cooperation, then turn around and pretend you didn't exist after she got what she wanted. That might qualify as "sane" behavior but it's certainly not reflective of the moral or ethical maturity one wants in a community leader.

Ahem.

(She never got back to me. Neither did ArbCom.)

I never said she was Joan of Arc. But if she has faults, look at the competition!

Is FloNight still on ArbCom? The last I communicated with her, she was on hiatus.

FloNight's ArbCom term expired in December 2009, and is therefore not on ArbCom any longer. She does however still have checkuser and oversight.

I wonder if there is currently anyone on ArbCom who has any interest in correcting a three-year old injustice.

And dogs chase cars...but if they catch them, that doesn't mean that they can drive them!




Creating, yes. Correcting...I wouldn't bet on it.



I don't see the connection. Do you want to burn Big Flo at the stake?




Except if the "community" is Wikipedia, of course.

It's a very long story arc.

Amply foreshadowed in previous thread.