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Talk:Australian Security Intelligence Organisation website hacked, blueprints stolen

I have left a comment at Talk:Australian Security Intelligence Organisation website hacked, blueprints stolen. I have some serious concerns about the article that you passed, especially since your review comments failed to address things from the previous reviews the led to the article not being passed. (There was ZERO discussion about why you published the article under that name despite previous reviewer comments.) If you could drop by and explain your review, how you addressed concerns by previous reviewers, and your rational regarding the name, that would be fantastic. --LauraHale (talk) 03:49, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This situation is a horrible mess; I feel awful about it, and I'm sorry to say you should probably feel pretty much the same. It looks to me as if you're disqualified from review at this point, too, though I think we badly need your input to untangle what happened and what can happen going forward, here. It really hurt me to unpublish, but under the circumstances I couldn't see any alternative. Whether it's possible to publish some form of the article later, I have no idea. --Pi zero (talk) 12:31, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

With hindsight, I can think of at least one alternative way I might have handled the situation, rather than unpublishing — I'm not sure the alternative would have been better, but expect I'll be thinking deeply about it. The thing is, of course, we don't really have a standard procedure for handling this sort of situation in our workflow, as it's so rare and our primary emphasis is (and should be) on preventing it from happening the first place. But we all know we mean to scale up as the infrastructure comes on-line to allow us to do so, and how to handle this sort of thing will need to be thrashed out. I think I'll start a water cooler thread. --Pi zero (talk) 15:19, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Wikinews:Water cooler/policy#Australian Security Intelligence Organisation website hacked, blueprints stolen. --Pi zero (talk) 16:03, 29 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikinewsie Group Newsletter - Edition 1, June 1, 2013

The Wikinewsie Group Newsletter

Sharing news about the group's activities
and things taking place on local Wikinews projects.

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Issue 1 - June 1/2, 2013

The Wikinewsie Group News

Since mid-April, supporters of The Wikinewsie Group have been quite active, doing a number of activities in support of the organization. These include selecting a provisional board, engaging in research projects, working to support original reporting, discussing setting up off-line events, and promoting our efforts and the broader work being done by Wikinews reporters.

  • On May 4, a meeting was held to select the provisional board. It was decided that the board would be composed of the following people: LauraHale (Chair), Pi zero, Brian McNeil, Bjarki, ProtoplasmaKid. The total number of people and roles was based on the draft bylaws. 18 people, a little under half of all people who were listed as supporters, attended the meeting. aff-comm has been advised of this, and that we are ready to discuss the group's bylaws with them. They have responded back to indicate their review will start shortly.
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review

Sorry I haven't gotten to your photo essay yet. I'm really hoping to get to it later this evening. --Pi zero (talk) 00:02, 30 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DanielTom e-mail

Hi. Please be extremely careful with the e-mail. My advice is, you do not open it like I did not. Neither of us have CU privileges. Neither of us have OTRS access as far as I know. There is no indication that the user had permission to share sensitive personal documents about another person before sending. The latter is EXTREMELY troubling to me. Unless permission is given by the other party for a legitimate purpose, you really should not be looking at their personal documents. --LauraHale (talk) 06:01, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Extremely troubling to me too. Luckily for the other party, I don't have a mind to what was sent in any way.
I was considering whether I'd jumped the gun on blocking the relevant user, but considering there is no evidence (provided to us) that the user had permission to send personal ID of another person, I think the block stands. --RockerballAustralia c 06:09, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Neither one of us are subject to meta:Access to nonpublic data policy, which is why the huge concerns on that issue. I was debating an indef block on the sharing of private, personal information to project participants over an onwiki dispute in a way that appears to violate WMF policy because of the hugely troubling nature of the content alleged to have been sent. (And because if one of my siblings did that without my consent, the anger would be huge.) --LauraHale (talk) 06:28, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I'm fairly sure if either of us shared such information we'd be breaking Australian law. I've just informed the user that the block stands -- RockerballAustralia c 06:41, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]