On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Neil Harris neil@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
That's fantastic, represents a huge vote of confidence for the Wiki Way, and is a big move towards improving the relationship between the WMF and the community.
Just to keep things in perspective: the removal of superprotect (which is, granted, not the only action described) is a rather minor and only mildly positive step. Compare it to what should have happened: superprotect *should* have been removed a year ago along with a profuse apology acknowledging that it should never have been imposed in the first place. Instead, it's removed a year later with the remark that "We have not used it for resolving a dispute since. Consequently, today we are removing Superprotect from Wikimedia servers" (05/11/15 17:35, Quim Gil wrote). In other words, it wasn't removed because it shouldn't have been imposed in the first place, but merely because it wasn't used. Is it good that it was removed? Sure, it's better to have had it removed than not. But it's a cheap token gesture.