Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia charity chairman resigns after pornography row

Another piece of blatant misrepresentation.

Fae was the subject of multiple homophobic attacks during that period and there was an orchestrated campaign by the usual group of haters who can't stand to see an openly gay man achieve prominence in our community.

Fae resigned voluntarily in order to reduce the impact of the hate campaign on the institution that he had been instrumental in building.

The call for an EGM was signed by all of four people. Four people. I could get more signatures for a petition to give Jimmy Wales a knighthood. (Ok, I might be exaggerating that last one).

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Rexx

On 11 January 2015 at 08:57, Toby Dollmann <toby.dollmann@gmail.com> wrote:

Why ?

Have you forgotten Section 230 of Communications Decency Act ?

Toby

On 1/11/15, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:
> can someone shut this guy up?
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
>
> On 11 January 2015 at 07:37, Toby Dollmann <toby.dollmann@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9447161/Wikipedia-charity-chairman-resigns-after-pornography-row.html
>>
>> Wikipedia charity chairman resigns after pornography row
>>
>> The chairman of the charity responsible for promoting Wikipedia in
>> Britain has resigned after he was banned from editing the online
>> encyclopaedia, following rows about the inclusion of pornography.
>>
>> By Christopher Williams, Technology Correspondent
>> 3:55PM BST 02 Aug 2012
>>
>>  Ashley van Haeften resigned as chairman of Wikimedia UK today, citing
>> concerns the controversy over his ban could cause divisions among
>> Wikipedia supporters.
>>
>> "I have discussed this matter with [Mr van Haeften] this morning,"
>> said Jon Davies, the chief executive of the charity, which distributes
>> £1m of donations from Wikipedia supporters annually.
>>
>> "He is keen that there should be no division in the Wikimedia UK
>> community over his role as Chair, especially at a time when so many
>> great things are being achieved.
>>
>> "He has therefore resigned as Chair."
>>
>> The Telegraph reported this week how Mr van Haeften had been banned
>> indefinitely from contributing to the English version of Wikipedia by
>> ArbCom, an elected committee of senior editors.
>>
>>
>>
>> ArbCom applied the sanction after finding he mounted personal attacks
>> on people with concerns about explicit material on Wikipedia,
>> including about material he had posted. He was criticised for
>> including a "highly inappropriate" link to pornography in the
>> biography of a living person.
>>
>> Wikipedia carries a large quantity of explicit material, despite
>> promoting itself as an educational website suitable for
>> schoolchildren. Critics such as Larry Sanger, a co-founder of the
>> website, and people attacked by Mr van Haeften, have argued for
>> filters or age controls to be introduced.
>>
>> Mr van Haeften, who works as an IT project manager, was also found by
>> ArbCom to have violated a series of editing rules, including by using
>> multiple accounts to change pages after he had asked for a "clean
>> start".
>>
>> His resignation follows a call by members of Wikimedia UK for an
>> Extraordinary General Meeting to discuss the controversy. They said
>> the decision of the charity's board to keep Mr van Haeften on as
>> chairman despite his ban from contributing to Wikipedia "not a
>> sufficient response to this situation".
>>
>> An EGM could still go ahead, however, as the call was for a vote on a
>> resolution "to remove Ashley Van Haeften from the Board of Trustees of
>> Wikimedia UK", not only to strip him of the chairmanship.
>>
>> "By not resigning as chair immediately after the ArbCom decision was
>> announced I am afraid that [Mr van Haeften] made an error which can
>> now only be corrected by his resignation from the board altogether,"
>> said one Wikimedia UK member.
>>
>> Mr van Haeften remains on the Wikimedia UK board. A new chairman will
>> be elected at a meeting this evening.

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