This was definitely mentioned at Wikimania. What I understood is that it will be hosted externally for performance and reliability reasons, but that the rest should remain the same.
Anyway, I'm not an expert here, just what I understood from Matthew Roth & friends
Lodewijk
2013/9/5 Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk
This is being discussed on-wiki too, at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Privacy_policy#Blog_not_hosted_by_WordP... .
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On 5 September 2013 14:00, Neil Harris neil@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
On 05/09/13 13:37, MZMcBride wrote:
Hi.
The recent draft privacy policy mentions that the Wikimedia blog (https://blog.wikimedia.org) will soon be hosted by WordPress.com.
Was this discussed anywhere? If so, where?
What is the proposed URL structure of a blog hosted by WordPress.com? I think there's a reasonable expectation that when a user visits *.wikimedia.org, we don't simply send his or her browser info to a
third
party without his or her consent. This has come up previously with
Jobvite
and iframes. It's also come up with the use of tracking tools such as Google Analytics, which not only affect one-time visitors, but aim to persist client-side.
How will the blog be backed up? Relying on an external service means not being in control of the data. Will there be regular backups made to
ensure
that if WordPress.com goes away, we won't lose all of our posts?
MZMcBride
I agree: this does seem to be a curious decision, at odds with the WMF's general policy of self-hosting as much as possible in order to maintain maximum independence from outside entities, particularly in the context
of
the recent concerns about privacy. I would have thought that maintaining
a
WordPress installation would be well within the WMF's capabilities.
Neil
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