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[Wikimedia-l] Re: My project was stolen by a user from Rwanda - User:Nkunda102
Thanks Abel for bringing our community ‘s attention to this issue though (
I don’t think using all these avenues before reaching to the user who did
that was really necessary but I understand the context )

I just had a phone call with user:Nkunda102 , he is newbie with no skills
of editing the metapage, he regrets his actions and will write a formal
apology to the original author and the team receiving grants .

Best regards

On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 at 13:10 Abel MBULA <bam6192@gmail.com> wrote:

> Forward as received
>
> FYI dear community member
>
> Abel Lifaefi Mbula
> Free Software Dev
> Free Culture Enthousiast
>
> Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send
> OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: patience kavira <patiencekavira@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 at 13:07
> Subject: Fwd: My project was stolen by a user from Rwanda - User:Nkunda102
> To: Abel MBULA (via Google Drive) <bam6192@gmail.com>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> De : patience kavira <patiencekavira@gmail.com>
> Date: sam. 18 févr. 2023 à 12:55
> Subject: My project was stolen by a user from Rwanda - User:Nkunda102
> To: fdevouard@anthere.org <fdevouard@anthere.org>,
> donatien.kanga@gmail.com <donatien.kanga@gmail.com>,
> emmanuelleg22@gmail.com <emmanuelleg22@gmail.com>, isla@wikiinafrica.org <
> isla@wikiinafrica.org>
> Cc: <wikifranca@lists.wikimedia.fr>, <
> african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org>, <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> >
>
>
> Dear Florence,
>
> It is with great regret that I am writing to report suspicious behavior by
> a user from Rwanda.
>
> As part of the African Environment project that you are conducting in
> partnership with Wikimedia CI, I have submitted a funding request since
> February 14th [1].
>
> However, as I was checking this morning to see if you have already decided
> on my project, I was surprised to see that the project has been slightly
> modified, and I am no longer the project owner. It is now the user
> Nkunda102 who has taken over the project. I did not want to simply undo his
> modifications, at the risk that he might come back again. I want to bring
> the situation to your level so that you know what to do, but at the same
> time, I would like to alert the whole community so that such behavior
> cannot happen again, because it tarnishes the image of Africa, as well as
> of Wikipedia.
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Environment/Microfunding/Let%E2%80%99s_fight_climate_change_and_the_gender_gap_on_Wikipedia
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Patience Kavira
> Environmental specialist
> University of Kisangani
>
>
> --
derrick