Congratulations on your new role Tim.
In all noise generated on this list by the bizzare detour into Wikipediocracy last week, I was surprised that the other major announcement - about the fundamental changes at WMDE (particularly regarding Pavel Richter) - were not discussed at all. For such a major announcement it was almost as if the list had been stunned into silence. I don't think I can think of another similarly significant event in the Wikiverse that has had so little response on this, often verbose, mailing list. I have absolutely no doubt that there are thousands and thousands of words written on German-language lists, but all I've seen is the WIkipedia Signpost's report: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-05-21/News_a...
I would appreciate if someone could point to good summaries of the issues that led to this radical change.
-Liam
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