<CPOV> Community run or royal decree?

[Juliana Brunello]

An interview with only 11 "chosen" individuals can barely testify to the
fact that WP is more and more decentralized. Maybe this research should
contain also interviews with individuals like Mr. Kohs in order to analyze
both sides.

Juliana



> Au contraire, Mister Kohs, we have this academic article testifying to the
> fact,
> I say {{fact}}, that Wikipedia Gubermince is more and more decentralized
> every day.
>
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Increasing_Decentralization_in_Wikipedia_Governance
>
> Jon Awbrey
>
> Gregory Kohs wrote:
>> It may be interesting to observe the following recent incident that ran
>> across all Wikimedia projects.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Jimbo_Wales&oldid=360060669#Thekohser
>>
>> http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Administrators%27_noticeboard&oldid=1119503#Global_ban_enforcement
>>
>> And perhaps most tellingly:
>>
>> http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Wikisource:Administrators%27_noticeboard&oldid=1870066#Global_ban_enforcement
>>
>> In summary, about two months ago, Jimmy Wales was spoofed into thinking
>> that
>> a Wikiversity project was setting out to undermine Wikipedia.  He
>> stepped in
>> and began blocking and desysopping long-time contributors to that
>> project.
>> He also matter-of-factly stated that "as far as he was concerned" the
>> user
>> Thekohser (that's me) is blocked from all projects.  A few weeks passed,
>> and
>> after I began to draw attention to the fact that Wikimedia Commons hosts
>> exploitative images of children fellating men, another user took it upon
>> himself to make sure Jimmy's decree was made law throughout the land.
>> He
>> and Jimmy didn't even know that a "global account lock" feature exists
>> on
>> Meta Wikimedia.  This is the gentleman who worked to have my account
>> globally blocked:
>>
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20000930112202/www.cris.com/~Jeffg/gski109.jpg
>>
>> This is me:
>>
>> http://www.mywikibiz.com/File:Gregory_Kohs_headshot.jpg
>>
>> The public relations mantra of the Wikimedia projects is that they are
>> "community run", at least in theory.  But, it would seem that royal
>> decree,
>> executed by mustachioed sycophants, is the actual practice.
>>
>> As a footnote, if anyone is interested in some of my various
>> contributions
>> to Wikimedia projects over the past couple of years:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arch_Coal&oldid=76592206
>>
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alec_Head&oldid=316417922>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Job_sharing&oldid=299529822
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Line_management&oldid=301438047
>>
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lippe-Weissenfeld&oldid=316412877><http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Looking_Glass_Falls&oldid=76523009>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Fuel_Gas&oldid=238999676
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Propositional_function&oldid=309988531
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Half_International&oldid=300305693
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zale_Corporation&oldid=76232040
>>
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kurume_hybrid_Azalea_x_Rhododendron_%27Firefly%27.jpg
>>
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ben_Franklin_Bridge_from_Adventure_Aquarium.jpg
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AFundraising_2009%2FSurvey&action=historysubmit&diff=1556772&oldid=1544535
>>
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Funding&action=historysubmit&diff=1908812&oldid=330554
>>
>> Apparently this sort of content is so utterly subversive to the
>> Wikimedia
>> community and mission, it calls for an extraordinary "global ban" from
>> all
>> projects.  Why is that?
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