On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > As for the accusation that there was no explanation: this is false. Where is the evidence that you warned the user _before_ banning him? The policy in wikipedia is to notify through the user talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy#Notifying_the_blocked_user > I did > not want to address this accusation because it is so plainly ridiculous, > but it seems that everybody and her dog thinks "yes, Dscho is such a nasty > person, he would do that, so let's assume that the other guy did not lie". I'm not assuming anything, I'm just looking at the evidence, and the evidence shows you blocked not only Amir, but a bunch of other people, and any attempted discussion through the user talk pages has been deleted by you. So the evidence has been suppressed. > In effect, all who keep this thread alive, reinforcing the accusations, > getting emotional and stuff, are feeding the troll. And making sure that > the task of keeping the Git Wiki clean is as undesirable as [censored]. > > So, sure, keep on going with this thread. I'm done. I find this behavior unacceptable in an admin. I'd like to propose myself as sysop in order to make the wiki more hospitable. I've done stuff in wikipedia, and have been involved in some conflict resolutions. Some of the things I would like to do is: 1) Encourage the use of user talk pages (not to be confused with user pages) in order to foster communication within the wiki to have more civilized and transparent conflict resolution 2) Allow users to search deleted pages (if possible) 3) Revisit old deleted pages, unblock accounts if appropriate, and apologize 4) Add a patrol group[1], and encourage users to join it in order to get rid of spam in a collaborative manner [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Patrolled_edits -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html