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Accusation against a Wikimedian in Residence[edit]

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"Rachel Helps, the Wikipedian-in-Residence at Brigham Young University and operator of the above two accounts, has for years engaged in extensive undisclosed WP:COI editing on Wikipedia in collaboration with her employees and professional colleagues. This misconduct falls well short of what is expected of any editor, let alone a paid Wikipedian-in-Residence,"

As this concerns a Wikimedian in Residence who has been active for years in this organization, interested persons may wish to join the discussion. Bluerasberry (talk) 18:33, 2 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Update - "rough consensus for topic banning Rachel Helps from LDS Church-related topics". Rachel was a Wikimedian-in-Residence at Brigham Young University, the center of scholarly expertise on the LDS church, and her focus in my opinion was the secular and social culture and position of this demographic. Her ban is not the outcome I wanted but I respect and accept the wiki community mediation process.

Here are my reflections:

Wikimedians in Residence need documentation to explain what they do. Irrespective of the outcome of this case, I am alarmed at the skepticism and mistrust that the Wikimedia community expressed about expert institutional partnerships. I expect Wikimedians in Residence to follow rules, but for some commentators, I feel like their major objection was to having institutional or expert collaborations in any case.
I perceive bias against the LDS church in this discussion, and I wonder how that applies to other demographics. In the wiki community we have other institutional partnerships with other minority groups which may be cultural or ethnic or both. This time the objection was to a Christian church. I feel like we do comparable projects with religions of indigenous peoples, 1000 Women in Religion, and many other projects which develop content by and for people of minority cultures. If there is mistrust of LDS people, then that is one issue; if there is mistrust of any religion, that is another kind of issue; if the mistrust is of minority groups talking about themselves, then that is yet another kind of issue. Personally I am LGBT+ and my experience with the LDS church is persecution and discrimination, so I can relate to negative disposition from wiki community members. At the same time, I think the world gets better with the flow of wiki-style general reference info and I do not find it productive to turn off the flow of information if we have some controlled, rules-abiding sources.

Bluerasberry (talk) 14:25, 30 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

The full Movement Charter draft awaits your review on Meta[edit]

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