[Wiki Loves Monuments] Pulled the plug on ErfgoedBot

[Jane Darnell]

How can we resolve this?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Sockpuppets_of_Russavia

On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Maarten,
> The question is really simple and the answer too.
>
> Is there a conflict? Yes.
>
> Must this conflict be resolved? I suppose yes.
>
> How it can be resolved? Is it sufficient the support of the WLM community?
>
> Regards
>
> On 28.06.2015 12:40, Maarten Dammers wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been running ErfgoedBot [1] since the start of Wiki Loves Monuments.
>> ErfgoedBot still runs on old pywikibot compat code that will break soon
>> [2]. I could invest time in updating the bot and I have been considering
>> doing that for quite some time, but I realized I just don't have the
>> motivation for it. Commons has become a toxic place dominated by a small
>> group of very vocal users. These users don't seem to accept that Russavia
>> is banned and to try to turn everything into "Commons community" vs "WMF"
>> battle. I don't identify with that and I don't feel like investing time in
>> a project where this behaviour is acceptable.
>>
>> Maarten
>>
>> [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ErfgoedBot
>> [2]
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-June/001178.html
>>
>>
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