On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> wrote: > As admin (but not Toolserver admin), the sense of rules similar to " > excuses such as 'the rules didn't say I can't do this' will be > ignored." is obvious to me and it means "don't make troubles". Having > a redirect to a Wikipedia page is not "making troubles".
That is for the toolserver admins to decide, not you. It is not helpful for you to discourage people from complaining to the toolserver admins, particularly not on false grounds. I have no strong opinion on whether this particular complaint is legitimate, but any user who thinks the toolserver is being misused should definitely bring it to the attention of the toolserver admins, such as by posting to toolserver-l (if they want it to be public) or ts-adm...@wikimedia.org (if they want it to be private). > This issue could be discussed more and I am not saying that the best > way for making directory listing forbidden is to make such redirect. > However, raising this issue at foundation-l is more about making > troubles than having such redirect. Even if that's the case, it is still entirely incorrect to say "Server admins usually prefer not to do anything in relation to personal files if it is not a security problem and if they don't have court order." The toolserver is not a place where users can do whatever they feel like as long as they don't cause too much trouble. The admins are perfectly willing to step in and stop toolserver users from doing anything that they feel is out of line. That said, foundation-l is indeed not the correct place to have this discussion, and further discussion should occur on toolserver-l (which was originally CCd as well as foundation-l). The toolserver is not run by the Wikimedia Foundation, but by Wikimedia Deutschland, which is a separate entity, so a discussion on foundation-l isn't as likely to reach the right people. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
