So I just received this:
Thank you all again for submitting your candidatures
for the Wikimedia
Foundation Board of Trustees. The Board Selection Task Force and the
Elections Committee are excited to inform you about the first community
engagement opportunity of this 2022 Board election process.
The Affiliate Representatives will be submitting questions for
candidates to answer. The process will use the new Movement Strategy
Forum <https://forum.movement-strategy.org/>, based on the open-source
platform Discourse <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_(software)>.
The great thing about Discourse is replies can be automatically
translated by users into their preferred languages. We will send you
each an email invitation to join a private category once the time to
answer questions begins (June 18). Each candidate will use their
Wikimedia account to log in, there is no need to create a new account
and password.
So by opposing this off-wiki forum, I've probably excluded myself from
going any further in this election.
Thanks,
Mike
On 31/5/22 23:35:52, Mike Peel wrote:
>
> > There is no on-site privacy policy, it just links to
> >
wikimediafoundation.org <http://wikimediafoundation.org>?
> >
> > See this pinned topic:
> >
> > User privacy considerations in this forum
> >
>
https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/user-privacy-considerations-in-this-f…
>
<https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/user-privacy-considerations-in-this-forum/55>
>
>
> So this does not follow the WMF's privacy policy at:
>
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy
>
> You didn't answer this.
>
> On 31/5/22 23:25:04, Quim Gil wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 12:17 AM Mike Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net
>> <mailto:email@mikepeel.net>> wrote:
>>
>> This is not a community review - this is an off-wiki discussion.
>>
>>
>> Participation is also welcome here:
>>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Forum/Proposal
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Forum/Proposal>
>
> Every single link under "Community review questions" goes to your new
> website. You state that "The Movement Strategy Forum is based on
> Discourse, a powerful open-source platform for community discussions." .
> I thought that's what MediaWiki was?
>
>>
>> > It's a Discourse instance.
https://discourse.org
>> <https://discourse.org> <https://discourse.org
>> <https://discourse.org>>
>> > is an open-source platform specializing in community
>> conversations.
>> That's $100/month for a standard subscription. per
>>
https://www.discourse.org/pricing
>> <https://www.discourse.org/pricing>.
>>
>>
>> This is for those who want to have their site hosted by the Discourse
>> maintainers, which is an option we have taken for now. Discourse is
>> free software.
>
> So WMF is paying Discourse to hold community discussions that would
> normally be held on MediaWiki? Huh?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike