--- Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Dec 12, 2007 2:16 PM, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com wrote:
--- Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
2007/12/12, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Hoi, Why is this exclusively en.wikipedia issue
discussed on Foundation-l ???
Thanks, GerardM
I think the examples are just from en-wikipedia
but the problem is about all Wikimedia projects.
What other projects are having such problems? Considering only a small number of projects have
local
checkusers and some of those have strong
requirements
for transparency, I would be very surprised to
find
this to be a WMF-wide issue. IIRC fr.WP doesn't
even
allow local checkusers to join checkuser-l because
of
the lack of transparency of that mailing list.
I doubt this is inherently a checkuser problem anyways. It is just another symptom of the larger dysfunction of the en.WP community.
Birgitte SB
So are other communities immune from this problem, or has it just not hit them yet? Either way, I think input from those outside en.wp would be valuable. If you're immune from the problem, tell us how you got there. If it just hasn't hit you yet, let's work together to solve it before it does.
You propose that all WMF communities are either A) immune to en.WP's problems and obligated to advise en.WP about why this is so on foundation-l, or B) destined to eventually have similar problems as en.WP in the future and therefore discussing en.WP's issue is really discussing an issue for all these projects as well. If that were valid no en.WP problem would be considered off-topic here. However it is not valid; en.WP has an entire list for discussing en.WP issues which would be much more appropriate place for this topic. A pointer to a thread there asking for outside opinions would be an appropriate way to solicit advice from other communities.
Birgitte SB
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