Hi,
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 12:54 PM Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
What consultation was carried out with contributors, and the wider the Wikimedia community, to inform this change?
Although you quoted it, you seem to have overlooked this question.
I aimed to address this question with this answer:
When we announced Next steps for Wikimedia Space [1] we said that the
Space blog
would continue in a new home, and this is exactly what we have done.
(...)
[1] https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/next-steps-on-wikimedia-space/3184
This is when we informed about this plan (February 18), also on this list. The feedback we received was about the Wikimedia Space announcement in general and there was some discussion about the Discuss part, but nothing in a way or another about the blog. We didn't consult any further, and we focused on proceeding with the migration.
Offering the previous blog archives as part of the new blog is logical. The Space Blog aimed to be a continuation of the Wikimedia Blog, but it was a prototype. Diff aims to be a continuation of the Wikimedia Blog and the Space blog, and it is a project officially supported, in production servers. Hence the consolidation of community news archives.