QUOTE(thekohser @ Mon 5th July 2010, 6:27pm)
Abd, could you give me a brief run-down on where I stand on Wikimedia projects? When I attempt on Tuesday to continue some of my good work on Wikisource, what is going to happen when I try to sign in with my account?
It
appears that the going policy is "Jimbo banned him from all WMF projects."
That's not something that will stand, as far as I'm concerned... because I'm clearly not banned -- I've been quite active on several WMF projects over the past month, which has unnecessarily occupied a bunch of time of people slavishly trying to enforce an unenforceable rule. Why are they so afraid of what my "named" account might do, might say?
Your SUL account Thekohser is globally locked. This means that, in spite of the fact that you have been unblocked on various wikis, you cannot log in. All WMF wikis are linked in this way, they all use the same global blacklist and global lock process. Interestingly, there are local whitelists and a local block whitelist -- global blocks are IP ranges -- but no local unlock list.
On wikiversity, if you will create an account with a non-obvious name, if you can manage this, and if you tell me (send me email or PM me here), I will block it but allow Talk page access and will post to the Talk page explaining, at that point, who you are and what is being done, and that it is being done with consensus at Wikiversity.
Don't use the account, just register it! -- until I've blocked it, leaving the Talk page open. By the way, this very action will show cooperation.
Trying to get a steward to unlock is more fuss than may be necessary at this point. If we are able to negotiate unblock on Wikiversity, then the basis will exist to dump the global lock, and I think it will fly. Overall, I believe, the community doesn't like meta interference in local projects, they see the role of stewards as to serve and assist, not to control.
The WMF is represented by staff accounts, and my opinion is that the WMF should never direct stewards, who serve the community, unless they do so publicly.
I suspect that we have is a single steward -- it is not clear that there is more than that -- who believes that he is serving the projects by serving his idea of what Jimbo would want. Right now, I prefer to avoid a direct confrontation with that. He's not the problem, in the end, the problem is always lack of clear, efficient, and fair process.