Talk:Open Letter to the Board of Trustees concerning the Arbitration Committee of German Wikipedia

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Community Affairs Committee reply[edit]

Hello,

The Community Affairs Committee (CAC) has received and reviewed this open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees.

We appreciate that understanding how the different parts of the movement fit together can be challenging, particularly when seeking redress.

Neither the Board nor the Wikimedia Foundation (Foundation) serve as regular appeal bodies for decisions reached by well-established local community processes. Both Jimmy Wales in his Wikipedia talkpage reply, and Wikimedia Foundation staff in their separate off-wiki closure of the office action-request, have addressed the role of proper community process in their contexts.

The Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines seek to clarify this point by reaffirming self-governance and by describing the role of the Wikimedia Foundation in its support of the UCoC process. We hope that this also helps individual users to better understand the role of the Foundation Board and staff, and that the situation described is outside of the Board’s mandate.

We realize that this reply might not be the result you aimed for, but this is not within our mandate.

Best, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, on behalf of the Community Affairs Committee --RStephenson (WMF) (talk) 21:16, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Rosie, dear Community Affairs Committee,
Thank you for your answer. Do you call "well-established local community processes" if
  • decisions of the members of the Arbitration Committee of German Wikipedia are based on unfounded and unproved accusations, false statements and defamation as "Warum bitte lügst Du..." (Why are you lying)
  • blocks are based on false statements and defamation
  • content vandalism is tolerated
  • harassing/hounding, false statements and defamation are not sanctioned by the administrators nor the Arbitration Committee of German Wikipedia?
For examples see in my Open Letter to the Board of Trustees concerning the Arbitration Committee of German Wikipedia, here Answer to Jimbo Wales and Johnuniq or here Gesuch um Aufhebung der Auflagen (appeal) or here False statements, irregular blocks etc..
In German Wikipedia there are no "well-established local community processes". For further and more precise information I will answer to all your questions.--GFreihalter (talk) 17:12, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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 Hello GFreihalter. I'm sorry, but this is not within our mandate. The WMF Board cannot do anything here. The Wikimedia projects are fundamentally self-governed, and this issue is outside the role of the WMF Board. It is a German Wikipedia community issue to resolve. --Best, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, on behalf of the Community Affairs Committee --RStephenson (WMF) (talk) 19:28, 1 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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