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On the Wikimedia Projects I am best known for making several million edits on Wikimedia Commons both with more than 160,000 uploaded images and audio files and making more than 3,000,000 edits under my main account and my bot account, mostly GLAM project related volunteer work, with no funding. | On the Wikimedia Projects I am best known for making several million edits on Wikimedia Commons both with more than 160,000 uploaded images and audio files and making more than 3,000,000 edits under my main account and my bot account, mostly GLAM project related volunteer work, with no funding. | ||
I used to be an Administrator on the English Wikipedia with 76,000 edits, but as of 2013, am retired from that project, you can read a resignation statement [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:F%C3%A6#So_long.2C_and_thanks_for_all_the_fish here] and considering the deliberately offensive community debate about transgender people in 2013, and that Arbcom's own findings found that I | I used to be an Administrator on the English Wikipedia with 76,000 edits, but as of 2013, am retired from that project, you can read a resignation statement [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:F%C3%A6#So_long.2C_and_thanks_for_all_the_fish here] and considering the deliberately offensive community debate about transgender people in 2013, and that Arbcom's own findings found that I was demonstrably harassed over a period of years both on and off wiki by the same people, I am in no rush to rejoin and be hounded on that project again. | ||
Any reader of this page would benefit by considering this example of one of the many deeply offensive comments that have been allowed to persist on the English Wikipedia, in this case by a "well established" English Wikipedian who regularly writes on Jimmy Wales' user talk page. If you write on the English Wikipedia that this same person ought to be blocked for hateful speech, you would be the one risking getting blocked or banned:[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Bradley_Manning&diff=569805115&oldid=569805074] | |||
<div style="margin-left:4em;background-color:peachpuff;padding:1em;border:solid 1px silver">Perhaps some of us, though I only speak for myself, really do not put any weight or credence in this sort of gender-bending stuff. Not every person on the planet subscribes to a liberal/progressive ideology, and I know it may ruffle your feathers but being conservative-minded is not thoughtcrime nor is it a disease or a mental disorder; or beliefs and ideology are just as soundly held as yours are. This guy is "Bradley Manning", a man and a male, both sex and gender. Period. Putting lipstick on a pig doesn't make a heifer become Marilyn Monroe y'know. Tarc 23 August 2013</div> | |||
[[Category:Trustees]] | [[Category:Trustees]] | ||
[[Category:Wikimedia UK volunteers]] | [[Category:Wikimedia UK volunteers]] | ||
Revision as of 12:36, 9 October 2013
I was a Wikimedia UK board member during 2011-2013, being part of the board that created the UK Charity, and a previous Chairperson of Wikimedia UK. In 2012, I was the first Chair of the Wikimedia Chapters Association and I co-founded the Wikimedia LGBT group the same year. Until 2013, I was the only openly gay trustee for Wikimedia UK and was voted in with LGBT projects as part of my stated reasons for becoming a trustee.
On the Wikimedia Projects I am best known for making several million edits on Wikimedia Commons both with more than 160,000 uploaded images and audio files and making more than 3,000,000 edits under my main account and my bot account, mostly GLAM project related volunteer work, with no funding.
I used to be an Administrator on the English Wikipedia with 76,000 edits, but as of 2013, am retired from that project, you can read a resignation statement here and considering the deliberately offensive community debate about transgender people in 2013, and that Arbcom's own findings found that I was demonstrably harassed over a period of years both on and off wiki by the same people, I am in no rush to rejoin and be hounded on that project again.
Any reader of this page would benefit by considering this example of one of the many deeply offensive comments that have been allowed to persist on the English Wikipedia, in this case by a "well established" English Wikipedian who regularly writes on Jimmy Wales' user talk page. If you write on the English Wikipedia that this same person ought to be blocked for hateful speech, you would be the one risking getting blocked or banned:[1]