All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXVII

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Okay so what I think happened, based on reading some backlogs and reading very much between the lines, is that one of the Stewards did a CheckUser and crossreferenced it with someone working at WMF. Either way, something was considered to be a violation of UK law about sharing PII, and basically they got told to do some stuff, including take training on how to handle personal data. And they didn't want to do that class part, and would rather leave.

And the Miraheze Board which has a lot of overlap between Trust & Safety committee was pretty divided on the whole thing. In any case, all of the divisions are coming out and apparently there is like one sysadmin and one steward left at Miraheze, and people are leaving the board too. The WikiForge collaboration is dead, and they're launching (like just yesterday) a free version called WikiTide which is kind of a Miraheze clone.

I'm sure I got something wrong there as there's a lot of guesswork; lots of people are quitting but the main reasons for it are still under NDA.