Hi all,
for those of you who do not watch the RecentChanges on the Foundation
wiki <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges>, I
think it might be somehow surprising to see that in a top-level
decision, almost all volunteer administrators of the wiki have been
stripped off their adminship yesterday evening (UTC time).
As far as I know, community members have been helping out maintaining
this wiki for as long as 2006, spending countless hours of their free
time on categorising existing pages, importing translations from Meta,
and recently, deleting unnecessary and broken pages left over by WMF staff.
Apparently, this is something that not only isn't appreciated, but
unwelcome. Let me repeat that: the WMF does not wish volunteers to help
out with running their wiki, even if they have been helping out almost
since the very start of the wiki.
Some questions come to my mind right now:
1) Who made the decision to remove adminship from all community members?
(I'm assuming it was Gayle, but it could've be someone from the
Communications department for all we know.)
2) Why did you make this decision now? What changed?
3) Why did you decide to desysop people straight away instead of
discussing things with them first?
These are questions directed at the WMF—for you regular folks, I have a
riddle (I'll give a WikiLove barnstar to the first person to submit a
correct answer). There is /at least/ one community member who does not
hold any official position within the WMF, and who has not been
desysopped in yesterday's purge—do you know who this person is?
-- Tomasz
Hi All,
In light of the feedback we have received over the past couple of months,
we have revised the Access to Nonpublic Information Policy
draft<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_to_nonpublic_information_policy>.
This new draft addresses many of the bigger concerns expressed by the
community. I have outlined some of the major changes from the old draft as
well as potentially contentious points that require further attention and
discussion by the community in the discussion
page<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Access_to_nonpublic_information_policy…>for
your convenience.
Please read over the new draft and let us know what you think! As a
reminder, the community consultation periods for both the Access to
Nonpublic Information Policy and Privacy
Policy<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy>drafts will
remain open until 15 January 2014.
Best,
Michelle
--
Michelle Paulson
Legal Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
mpaulson(a)wikimedia.org
415.839.6885 ext. 6608 (Office)
415.882.0495 (Fax)
NOTICE: *This message might have confidential or legally privileged
information in it. If you have received this message by accident, please
delete it and let us know about the mistake. For legal reasons, I may only
serve as an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not
give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members,
volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.*
_______________________________________________
Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
_______________________________________________
WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list
WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l
Dear Ansuman,
Thanks for flagging this. All the profiles of the CIS-A2K team members are
now updated. Please see [1].
Best,
Vishnu
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Team
On 28 October 2013 16:46, ansuman <ansumang(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Me:
> Please make available the job descriptions/roles for all the employees at
> meta and share the same in the mailing list.
>
> Vishnu:
> YES WE ARE REWORKING THE PROFILES AS THE EARLIER ROLES ARE NO MORE
> RELEVANT. WE WILL TAKE THIS UP ON PRIORITY AND PUT IT UP ON META. THE LINKS
> TO A2K TEAM MEMBER PROFILES, SHARED EVERY MONTH IN A2K NEWSLETTERS, WILL IN
> FUTURE BE LINKED TO THE META PAGES.
> --------------------------------------------------------------To
> unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
>
>
The Wikimedia Foundation has published a blog post announcing that we have
sent a cease and desist letter to WikiPR. The letter demands the firm cease
editing Wikipedia sites until it complies with the conditions of the
Wikipedia community's ban, as well as any further conditions that might be
set out by the Board, the community or the WMF.
Read more on the Wikimedia blog here:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/19/wikimedia-foundation-sends-cease-and-…
thanks,
Matthew
--
Matthew Roth
Global Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
+1.415.839.6885 ext 6635
www.wikimediafoundation.org
*https://blog.wikimedia.org <https://blog.wikimedia.org>*
_______________________________________________
Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
_______________________________________________
WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list
WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l
Hi. :)
I wanted to let you know that James Forrester is holding a second set of
office hours to discuss VisualEditor. These are scheduled for 1700 UTC on 2
November and 0000 UTC on 3 November. For local time conversions, see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_hours and click on the starting time
As always, logs will be posted on Meta (same page) after each hour
completes.
Thanks!
Maggie
--
Maggie Dennis
Senior Community Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Dear all,
In our new education program with youngs in scholar difficulties, we have the problem that only half of the new accounts have the visual editor activated, it's quite annoying to have two teach two way of editing.
Is there a trick to force the activation of Visual Editor for a specific user?
Thanks
Charles
___________________________________________________________
Charles ANDRES, Chief Science Officer
"Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge –
www.wikimedia.ch
Skype: charles.andres.wmch
IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch