All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXVII

[robkelk]

Okay so what I think happened, based on reading some backlogs and reading very much between the lines, is that one of the Stewards did a CheckUser and crossreferenced it with someone working at WMF.  Either way, something was considered to be a violation of UK law about sharing PII, and basically they got told to do some stuff, including take training on how to handle personal data.  And they didn't want to do that class part, and would rather leave.

And the Miraheze Board which has a lot of overlap between Trust & Safety committee was pretty divided on the whole thing.  In any case, all of the divisions are coming out and apparently there is like one sysadmin and one steward left at Miraheze, and people are leaving the board too.  The WikiForge collaboration is dead, and they're launching (like just yesterday) a free version called WikiTide which is kind of a Miraheze clone.

I'm sure I got something wrong there as there's a lot of guesswork; lots of people are quitting but the main reasons for it are still under NDA.

After a night's sleep and a day's pondering.... A few questions before I start asking on Meta.

Does Miraheze's ISP offer Sysadmin-as-a-Service? (Some ISPs do, some don't, and I know full well the PII and security implications for using it... but it might become necessary.)

Is there anybody on the CVT who's trustworthy and looking for "promotion" to Steward? (At this point, a Y/N answer is sufficient. No names.)

Will they accept as a candidate for Steward somebody who's a Bureaucrat at a big wiki that isn't Meta? (Yes, I know that, because of ATT and the Poser and Daz Free resources wiki, that probably means "me". Not like I have the time, and even if I did there's a possible perceived conflict of interest with my paying job.)

What sort of PII data-protection course are they talking about? (There's a big difference between a course from IAPP and a course from CCCS, for example... not that I expect Miraheze staff to need courses designed to protect systems with data that needs a security clearance to ask about.)