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Community Outreach
Community Outreach (TroyL, 7 Jan 2014)
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Newbie Guide rewrite (Crayne, 30 Jan 2014)
Just noting that I've written a draft for a new Newbie Guide (as opposed to a Guide to Newbies, which sounds like we need to know how to deal with them). Currently being evaluated by moose, Zyn and TroyL.
Notable edits:
- Introduction tab rewritten to be an actual introduction rather than a rehash of the Site Rules.
- Site Behavior retitled 'Site Survival Tips'.
- Site Survival Tips edited to remove rehashed Site Rules entries, supplemented with things that were missing, and format adjusted for readability.
- Tips for members retitled 'Good Membership' and edited for clarity and readability.
- Staff Tab reduced to a list of staff by position. If a separate Guide to Staff comes into being, tab can disappear and new document can be linked from Site Survival Tips.
Sandbox Issue (bswhunter) - Resolved (Zyn, 15 Jul 2014)
Throwing this up for posterity.
Abacade came into chat saying that he remembered someone's sandbox apparently getting vandalized and user in question freaking out about it. After some digging, it looks like a false alarm, or potentially someone IRL playing a prank.
Matter has been resolved, but in case the name pops up again, keeping record here.
Log:
Sandbox Hub (and Chat Reminder!) (Decibelles, 6 Apr 2016)
So three months ago, I created this sandbox for us to coordinate in case someone can't be on chat to talk about it. Contest ideas can go there, and if you have general ideas for discussion or want to bring up, put them in there too. If you want to even make a wall of text to comment on, do so! (I did one for Call for Reviews.)
As a reminder, if you're part of the team, when you go on chat, please join #site81 and set it for your ajoin! It helps us coordinate better. Also, rumetzen, kaktus and I are lonely there.
And finally, if you want to make a report for something that's noteworthy or of merit, feel free to use this hub to make a report. Don't be shy :)
Chat Topic (rumetzen, 19 Apr 2016)
The topic for group tells with Jarvis is "c-outreach". Don't forget to sign up!
Disciplinary
Disciplinary Committee (TroyL, 7 Jan 2014)
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Mission Statement (Eskobar, 8 Jan 2014)
FOR ALL MEMBERS OF DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE:
The purpose and mission of the Disciplinary Committee is, first and foremost, to prevent the breaking of rules. This is not to be confused with punishing people for breaking rules; while this is a part of our job, it is a means to a larger end.
Our job is to protect the creative environment of the SCP Foundation Wiki by policing behaviors that we have found to be non-conducive to that environment. We are expected to use our best judgment in deciding what actions, behavior, and phrasing on our part best resolve disciplinary infractions with the least amount of disruption to the community. Our actions should seek to support the best possible outcome even for those committing the infraction; if they can be made into productive members of the site, we should help them do so.
Our job is to make judgment calls in those instances where the rules are more subjective, such as applications of Wheaton's Law. We who are members of this committee are currently believed to have sufficient maturity and intelligence to use subjective rules to the common good of the site.
Our job is to enforce the rules of the wiki. When someone breaks our rules, we will issue warnings. If it needs to go farther, we will push it up to administration to determine if a ban is warranted.
Our job is to help users obey the rules in those instances where they have difficulties doing so. If the best way to do that is sitting down and talking with a problem user, we will do so. If the best way to do that is removing them from the site, we will do so.
Welcome to the Disciplinary Committee.
Psychopathic Madman - Resolved (SoullessSingularity, 14 Jan 2014)*
As can be viewed in this thread he is repeatedly breaking criticism policy and despite multiple warnings has not improved in his flagrant, snarky attitude. One-week ban by staff consensus.
Timer removed. — Eskobar
His account was deleted. Huzzah.
bravo104 (SoullessSingularity, 18 Jan 2014)
As seen in this thread he's been given a warning for repeated nonconstructive, snarky posts.
Schifter (Eskobar, 19 Jan 2014)*
Banned for repeated harshness and snark in critique as documented in this thread.
Timer removed. — Eskobar
Zenoseiya (Pig_catapult, 22 Jan 2014)*
Permabanned for constant plagiarism. Threads here (forum) and here (chat)
evanocho (Eskobar, 24 Jan 2014)
User evanocho made a series of ridiculous edits immediately after being accepted to the wiki, including trying to make himself a personnel file. User also was a member of the SCP Archive page and had made unnecessary edits over there. Membership revoked.
BigBadGreen666 (Eskobar, 29 Jan 2014)
Posted and then reposted what was deemed to be a troll article. Membership revoked. Reapplied and was readmitted, immediately posted a different troll article. Banned for one week.
Timer removed. —Eskobar
TheMinecraftian (Eskobar, 29 Jan 2014)*
Repeated, repeated shitposting with little to no actual, useful content. Warned via PM. Repeated shitposting after warning. Thread can be found here. Presently banned for 24 hours.
Timer removed. — Eskobar
Reapplied and accepted…. apparently he's 42?
DrBlack (Eskobar, 1 Feb 2014)
Profound, supreme creepiness on the forums and sandbox from a user with no positive contributions to the wiki in any way. Warned, then continued. As per harsh penalties for creepitude, banned for one week.
Timer removed. — Eskobar
Dave Mike (Eskobar, 2 Mar 2014)*
Repeated, repeated poor critique after both in-thread and PM warnings from staff. Given a 24-hour ban. After the ban expired and was lifted, improved temporarily and then declined into poor critique again. Given a week-long ban, evaded ban using sockpuppet Jack Nickle. Permabanned.
Vezaz (Eskobar, 7 Mar 2014)*
After flagrant rudeness towards two separate users, deliberate disregard of valid critique by Site Critique members, violation of a stop order, disregard for Staff authority, and a request for a permaban, user was banned with no definite date for unbanning. Discussion thread can be found here.
[edit:] Ban was rescinded 12 December 2015.
DrSkyer/Terarex (Eskobar, 14 Mar 2014)
User Terarex created a sockpuppet account for himself under the name DrSkyer. Under sockpuppeting guidelines (and accompanied by negative, although not necessarily actionable, behavior in chat) both accounts were permabanned.
Three Whole Admins? (Communism will win, 27 Mar 2014)*
Scantron:
Thinking it over, I'm not sure that requiring three admins to enact a ban is necessary. Our moderators are wise and trustworthy enough, I think, to have the assent of three of them be enough to make a ban happen, with an admin executing it. I think wanting the whole three admins to make a ban permanent, though, would be fine.
There could also be a provision for controversial situations, but that's more or less a given.
Troy:
In the past, I've used members of the disciplinary team as stand ins for admins when determining initial bans. I think this is an excellent policy we should make official. Thoughts?
Troy:
Twenty-three days without comment? I'm going to assume everyone likes my idea and enact it into law.
Drew:
3 for perma and a minimum of 1 for tempban works for me.
DrGatsby/James Vale/Torin Blackguard (Eskobar, 30 Jun 2014)
I'M BRINGING THESE BACK NOW, PROBABLY A GOOD IDEA
Link to disciplinary thread here and here and chatban thread here. User arrived months ago as DrGatsby and was warned quickly after joining, then dropped off the face of the earth. Earlier in the month, he reapplied as James Vale, admitted he used to be DrGatsby, and was readmitted. No incident until this past weekend, when he changed his Wikidot name to Torin Blackguard, made a series of low-content, almost spammy posts and received a warning from staff. After some more low-content posts, he made a "leaving" thread in which he loudly proclaimed that he was leaving the wiki. Shortly after that, he posted again in that thread to add an ASCII middle finger (that apparently included a dick?), then jumped into #site19 and did the same thing, then sent a PM to Zyn and did the same thing. Permabanned, with the possibility of review in six months.
you ban me? do you think i give a shit? i do not want to be a part of that site and i hope the scp-wiki burns in hell. fuck you scp-wiki.
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I can't discuss an ASCII dick and middle finger and not include at least one.
The #MENINIST shitbag (Eskobar, 16 Feb 2015)
Multiple offenses under multiple different identities on both chat and wiki. Consolidated thread of offenses can be found here.
Sinclair? (DrClef, 12 May 2015)
Saw this on Tumblr:
http://sail0rmoonmoon.tumblr.com/post/118766466792/scp-l4-clef-alto-001-thewhalesider-despite
No idea who this is, but maybe someone else can give some insight?
Disciplinary Addition (djkaktus, 23 Nov 2015)
Posting this to verify that I've added Crayne to the Disciplinary Committee. Honestly, I thought he was already a member, but I was mistaken. Making it official here.
Another Disciplinary Addition (djkaktus, 11 Dec 2015)
Noting here that Bouncl has been added to the Disciplinary Committee.
Team Reorganization (A Random Day, 2 Sep 2017)
The team has gotten a shakeup.
Decibelles has retired from her position as Captain.
Her successors are A Random Day and ProcyonLotor. Together they will co-captain the team.
We have recruited two new members, LilyFlower and EldritchCadence, and are currently trying to figure out what people listed here are actually still part of the team.
See all the team's responsibilities, goals, and members here!
Feel free to reach out to us if you want to join!
Guide for Newbies Staff List Update (ProcyonLotor, 5 Jan 2018)*
As one of the opening moves of what is to be a laborious overhaul of the site's guides, CO junior staff Varaxous updated the long-outdated staff listing on the Guide to Newbies to the most current information we had.
Belated Additions (DrEverettMann, 21 Jul 2018)
Noting here that Jacob Conwell, Taffeta, ChaoSera, TuomeyTombstone and Accellerando were all added to the Disciplinary Committee back in March of 2018.
Scantron/Communism will win (Quikngruvn, 13 Sep 2018)
Communism will win was permabanned with four Disciplinary votes (plus one non-objection) for excessive venom and vehemence one too many times. Details here.
Yet another addition (Quikngruvn, 13 Sep 2018)
Tretter has been added to Disciplinary as of a couple days ago.
Forum Criticism
Forum Criticism (TroyL, 7 Jan 2014)
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Harassment
Harassment Team (TroyL, 7 Jan 2014)*
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Images
Images Team (TroyL, 7 Jan 2014)
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CC images on the Visual Records Wiki (Roget, 12 Jan 2014)
Hey, Roget here. Once my team is fully assigned, I'm going to be giving some of you(or all of you) the responsibility of going through and finding the license for all the pictures on the Visual Records wiki. Famine and I have discussed several ways of keeping the images organized with their information, and I'm thinking tabs is probably the best way to go. We ought to also be doing the same thing for the artwork section. So, contact me and I'll give you the current situation on that, and once the team is finalized we can create a more thorough plan.
Current Status of visual records, as per my instructions given in my absence? (Roget, 27 Jan 2014)*
What is the status on this? — Roget
Finished looking for sources for spectral. None of them are under copyright, mostly just images that are everywhere (ghost.jpg) or are artwork (that cat one, the author may still be on deviant). This may be just because of the type of image in that category.
Another thing you may notice: unless we can get someone to format the tables to fit, they'll end up looking gross. It shouldn't be that hard for people to find the image name (look in the URL of the image) and find it in the list. Probably should alpha arise it.
I've also been on a little deletion spree, mostly for used images on the site. And yeah, that's mostly it. -Accel
scp image (Roget, 28 Jan 2014)*
http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-86227/scp-271#post-1949277
I'll try to see if it's copyrighted, but if it ain't, then it's just the article's fault for choosing a recognizable image. —Accel
Doesn't seem like it is. -Accel
SCP-1678 "UnLondon" (Roget, 15 Feb 2014)*
Got this PM from Nighkos.
Greetings Roget,
As Captain of the Image Team, I thought I'd bring to your attention an issue I've noticed recently.
A short while ago, I read SCP-1678: Unlondon, and really enjoyed it. However, while reading the discussion pages, I saw a conversation that concerned me. The third comment on the page starts a discussion between the author and another user about how "Both pictures are watermarked, just a bit of cropping should do it." The author later agrees.
After some reverse image searching, I've found the source of the two images:
http://immanuel.deviantart.com/art/The-Grand-Admiral-100269579
http://tomaskral.cz/92703/845309/works-personal/ashfall-project
This is a pretty blatant violation of the current image policy. I understand the use of some images is a "grey" area (considering how things are shared on the internet), and that this article was created long before the current Image Policy, but I feel cropping out a watermark without permission is a serious issue.
As much as I enjoyed the article, I realize the loss of the images would be a shame. Hopefully, the image creators can be contacted and a suitable agreement can be reached. If this has already been done behind the scenes, maybe Staff Post in the discussion thread so other hapless newbies like myself won't fret over this.
Thanks,
Nighkos
Sent a message to the dA guy:
Hello,
I am Roget, a moderator of a collaborative fiction website called the SCP Foundation. Recently, we noticed that one of your images was placed on our site without attribution in an article. Specifically, this image: http://immanuel.deviantart.com/art/The-Grand-Admiral-100269579
We would like to have your permission to use this image. In the article itself, we can credit you for creating the image, either with an in-character link to your website, or a post in the article discussion page attributing the image to you. If you would like the version of this image which lacks the watermark removed, we can replace it.
I hope to hear from you soon!
Roget
(Link to the SCP Wiki http://www.scp-wiki.net/)
And the other guy in email:
Hello,
I am Roget, a moderator of a collaborative fiction website called the SCP Foundation. Recently, we noticed that one of your images was placed on our site without attribution in an article. Specifically, this image: http://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-1678/STREET-WEB-READY%281%29.jpg
We would like to have your permission to use this image. In the article itself, we can credit you for creating the image, either with an in-character link to your website, or a post in the article discussion page attributing the image to you. If you would like the version of this image which lacks the watermark removed, we can replace it.
I hope to hear from you soon!
Roget
(Link to the SCP Wiki http://www.scp-wiki.net/)
If you don't mind, I would really like to use your PMs as a template to message people that own certain images. But I was wondering; isn't any image that is up on the site forced to follow Creative Commons? Just attribution is ok?
SCP-550 "The Ghûl" (Accelerando, 21 Feb 2014)
As I was rewriting 550, I decided to look for the original image source for a better quality picture. I found the artist's website for the picture (was found displayed here, here's the artist's website), and emailed him about it:
Hello,
This is Accelerando, a staff member of a collaborative fiction website called the SCP Foundation. Recently, we noticed that one of your images was placed on our site without attribution in an article. Specifically, this image: http://www.scp-wiki.net/local--files/scp-550/Ghoul3.jpg
We would like to have your permission to use this image. In the article itself, we can credit you for creating the image, either with an in-character link to your website, or a post in the article discussion page attributing the image to you. You may also request for the complete removal of this image from the article.
I hope to hear from you soon!
-Accelerando
(Link to the SCP Wiki http://www.scp-wiki.net/)
They responded with:
Dear Accelerando,
If this article is not about my work, please remove the image.
Thanks
Regards,
Levi van Veluw
A bit of a shame, but oh well. I'll remove it from the original article. One of his works are also in Visual Records, so that's gone too.
SCP-1497 "Visual Perfection" (Accelerando, 5 Mar 2014)
TwistedGears was notified by Toxias of 1497's image source, which is a product on Etsy. I contacted the creator; will update this with a response.
Hello,
This is Accelerando, a staff member of a collaborative fiction website called the SCP Foundation. Recently, we noticed that one of your images was placed on our site without attribution in an article.
Specifically, this image: http://www.scp-wiki.net/local--files/scp-1497/Perfect_Eye.jpg
And this image: http://www.scp-wiki.net/local--files/scp-1497/Perfect_Series.jpg
We would like to have your permission to use this image. In the article itself, we can credit you for creating the image, either with an in-character link to your website, or a post in the article discussion page attributing the image to you. Either way, we're interested in providing people access to your product. You may also request for the complete removal of this image from the article it is featured in.
I hope to hear from you soon!
-Accelerando
(Link to the SCP Wiki http://www.scp-wiki.net/)
Credit Report (Roget, 11 Mar 2014)
So I have assembled a crack team of people with way too much free time on their hands, and we're going through the pages and finding any images which do not meet copyright. So far the list can be found here: http://scpsandbox2.wikidot.com/image-project-2014
Anyone wishing to help, not just staff members, can go to site77 and ask if they can help. If anyone has any questions, ask 'em here.
Getty Images (Roget, 17 Apr 2014)
[22:19] * Accelerando (~moc.rr.ser.iiawah.6C04EFB2-CRInys|odnoRtoN#moc.rr.ser.iiawah.6C04EFB2-CRInys|odnoRtoN) has joined
[22:44] <Accelerando> I've been looking up info about GettyImages, and I don't know what to think.
[22:44] <Accelerando> http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-06/since-it-cant-sue-us-all-getty-images-embraces-embedded-photos
[22:44] <Accelerando> http://www.ibtimes.com/getty-images-lawsuits-enforcement-or-trolling-fear-letters-dwindling-stock-photo-giant-hits-federal
[22:44] <Accelerando> http://onehourprofessor.com/getty-images-demand-letter-getty-images-lawsuit/
[22:44] * Accelerando has left
[22:44] <Roget> weizhong, find out what we should think
[22:45] <weizhong> o7
research intensifies
[22:50] <weizhong> Okay
[22:50] <weizhong> Getty Images flips shit about people using their images
[22:50] <weizhong> But then sometimes they don't
[22:51] <weizhong> So we should stay away from using Getty Images at all
[22:51] <Roget> I agree
[22:51] <weizhong> Because they will threaten people with lawsuits
[22:51] <weizhong> Even if they don't actually sue
[22:51] <weizhong> This is kind of a shitstorm
[22:51] <Roget> .tell Accelerando since Getty images spazzes and is weird we're not going to bother with them
[22:51] <Glacon> Roget: I'll pass that along.
[22:51] <Roget> Actually I'll just post this on 05 as a report
[22:52] <weizhong> Throw in my caveat that they can only be used if they're embedded like they want
[22:52] <weizhong> I see their images everywhere
[22:52] <weizhong> I had no idea they were so uptight about it
Activity (Roget, 8 Sep 2014)
So, as some of you may have noticed, the image team has had a precipitous drop in activity lately. I've sort of let it happen, because I figured things were going better than they appeared. It was only after discussing it with Devereaux that I realized that we were in sad shape. So I'm going to be doing a few changes to kick people into gear again:
- anq is going to be working with me to decide who to keep among the current team, and who to let go, replacing those people with persons we hope will be able to do the work.
- Following this, I'm going to be implementing some sort of solid date for when things need to be done, so that people can't think they'll do it eventually, and then never do anything at all.
- I'll be taking a more direct role in the team, as I've been out of the main loop for awhile.
- Visual Records is going to be given some priority, with the eventual goal of having it linked more prominently on the site as an officially recognized source of CC compliant images.
So yeah, I'm doing stuff again.
Understandable. I've been having trouble balancing work and extracurricular activities, which is why I still haven't finished 900-999 (though I'm at 970 now). I have no intention of becoming completely inactive, but if it comes down to it, I may have to drop out of the team once I finish. - Accel
This is going to be used to train some of the people we bring on to do images.
Questions for the new volunteers:
- Do you have a wikidot account?
- How many hours a week will you be able to spend on the project?
- For how many weeks do you plan to work on the project?
- Do you know what Creative Common license entails?
- What is the difference between CC-BY-SA and CC-BY-NC-SA licenses?
- When is something considered to be in a Public Domain?
- Will you be comfortable sending emails to strangers?
- Will you be comfortable contacting large corporate entities?
- Did you use services like Tineye or Google Reverse Image Search before?
- Will you answer questions from users about the Image Project or licensing status of particular images?
Resuming Imaging Work (Roget, 26 Oct 2014)
We've collected enough volunteers that work should be resuming pretty soon. I'm going to be using this week to get everyone together, so that next week when anq is free, he can show people how to use all of the incredibly nifty tools he's designed. We've got about 5 usable volunteers, and if work goes well, I expect to have more to shoulder some of the burden. I'd also like to single out anq for doing some specifically excellent work to help out the team with his automated process. It's incredibly good work.
The Workers Have Risen (Apoplexic, 22 Jan 2017)
The new index page for sources and attribution can be found here.
Progress is being made, but not at any incredible pace. Thanks to a specific feature Anqxyr recently (relative to this post and the previous) added to jarvis, the near-entirety of the work can be done from within IRC, and is fairly simple Roget already did this below. - it would certainly behoove us to try and refill the team ranks.