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Meet former Wikimedia steward, 19 year old Tomas Bloemink, aka TBloemink. Tomas was stripped of his steward bit after it was discovered that he and a fellow Netherlander, JurgenNL (an admin at Wikimedia Commons), had abused data that had been oversighted to obtain the address of fellow Wikipedian MoiraMoira, and traveled via train over 100 miles to her home. What they intended to do remains unclear, but they claimed that it was part of their geocaching hobby, which seems totally legit. They later laughed at MoiraMoira on Wikipedia's IRC channels. Neither was site-banned, although JurgenNL was stripped of his global sysop bit, and EDiots theorize that they plan to exact revenge on MoiraMoira for being "unnaturally timid". Not content with IRL stalking and prank calling their victim, one of them, JurgenNL suborned Commons admin Trijnstel to send him some pictures of MoiraMoira that had been deleted from Commons after the above incident, presumably so he could get a better idea of what his victim looked like, so he would rape and murder the correct person.

The WMF expressed no remorse for putting an 18 year old in charge of sensitive private data, and in fact threatened to ban anyone who suggested to MoiraMoira that she seek legal recourse for obvious neglect on the part of the Wikimedia Foundation.

When asked to confirm the information above, @TBloemink said in a (now deleted) tweet:

It seems that Jurgen went on to harass TBloemink in a manner which caused him distress. This exchange is rather telling:

See also

• Riley Huntley, another teenager who had his advanced permissions stripped for abuse
• Greg Wickwire, who was complicit in the abuse of private data by Riley Huntley
• Former Bureaucratic Fucks

External links

• Stalker
  • Backup
• Cyberbully
• ...and throw in some victim-blaming, for good measure
• TBloemink
• TBloemink