On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:46 AM, Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2016-09-30 1:18 GMT+03:00 Matthew Flaschen
<mflaschen(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
The local projects in this case are
MediaWiki.org,
wikitech.wikimedia.org,
Phabricator, Gerrit, the technical mailing lists, the technical IRC
channels, and Etherpad.
Activity in village pumps or elsewhere on other projects is not in scope.
Agreed. Still, a mention in the Technical News now and then would have
been nice. The ArchCom's activity, which is likely of interest to
fewer people, is present in every edition of the news.
I think that's because I've – mainly unconsciously, perhaps – been
seeing ArchCom meetings as a chance for technically advanced editors
to get a grasp of future changes to all the Wikimedia wikis, but the
Code of Conduct discussion as an internal process for the people
involved in the spaces mentioned by Matt. Important to spread
information about on Phabricator,
MediaiWiki.org, technical mailing
lists et cetera but perhaps not suitable for a newsletter that is
mainly trying to explain technical changes to editors who are not
active on those platforms – the same way I wouldn't include an
invitation to take part of a process that's specific for English
Wikipedia.
(The ArchCom meetings are actually included in less than half the
issues – I'm counting seven mentions in the last twenty weeks – but
that doesn't take away Strainu's point: It's a technical item that's
regularly included.)
//Johan Jönsson
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