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key success factors of the linux community, what to take for wikipedia

linus torvalds created a community of programmers working on the linux kernel 1991. the community grew since then to nowadays 5'000 commits a month, 5 times more than 10 years ago. alone the linux kernel mailing list receives more than 20'000 messages a month, 3 times more than 10 years ago. innovative technologies are added to the kernel first from universities, individuals, companies, bearing the GPL. what do you see as the key success factors of that development, and what can you take off that into your work at wikipedia? --ThurnerRupert (talk) 15:28, 29 November 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]

I was disturbed by the candidate User:Kevin Gorman using the Wikipedia:Wikipedia Weekly facebook group to attack user:Roger Davies about his position on Overight of gender. For future reference, the link was https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/921760971205068/ . That link now shows "This post has been removed or could not be loaded." John Vandenberg ^(chat) 22:22, 1 December 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• I considered it a diff significant enough that I didn't desire it to be lost in the haze of an arbcom election. I have it privately saved and if nothing else, will probably use it to argue for WMF to formally train arbs, or to encourage another body to conduct an outside review of our practices. I posted it at 5am, and deleted it pretty promptly after waking up and further considering it. It also wasn't much more of an attack beyond saying what I've said on-wiki - which is that I think it's really disturbing that Roger views oversighting PII as a "seismic shift" in ENWP practices. Ironically, if this had been a post by Roger, he'd probably accuse you of having a laissez-faire attitude about outing that makes you unfit to hold any advanced privileges (I don't care.) Kevin Gorman (talk) 23:10, 1 December 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]

• That's not accurate. The discussion is about whether gender personal pronouns, when the person hasn't disclosed their gender, should be automatically oversightable. Your insistence, by repeated reference to EFF's 87%, is that it is. The thin edge of the wedge argument, I guess. I don't agree and think it's much more nuanced than that.  Roger Davies ^talk 19:35, 2 December 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]
• User:Kevin Gorman, I find your last sentence to be another attack, without merit as best I can tell. Roger would not post what you did, and I've never seen him on any Wikimedia forum off-wiki, except for functionary related private email lists. I don't know his facebook account, if he even has one. OTOH, you are continuing an onwiki dispute on Facebook, using a Facebook account which you've previously linked to your Wikipedia account. How on earth could I be outing you? Off-wiki attacks are often discussed on Wikipedia, and is covered in policies like WP:NPA. John Vandenberg ^(chat) 05:50, 3 December 2015 (UTC)Reply[reply]

Now that our respected editor has passed on, is he still considered a candidate? 29 November 2016 MVD 13:47, 29 November 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by MichaelVernonDavis (talk • contribs)