On 06/09/10 20:33, Teofilo wrote:
During the past few years, the new softwares of the
Wikimedia
Foundations have been developped in a too much anarchic way.
* They are sometimes implemented as a whim of a few WMF big wheels,
without consulting the user communities.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3576
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15644
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18780
* We are never shown specifications defining the goals
of the planned
softwares, which makes me doubt such specifications are ever written.
With specifications being written and published, problems could be
talked in a proactive way.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bitfields_for_rev_deleted
* The developpers have enabled for every Admin of the
French
Wikipedia, the possibility to mask (and exert acts of censorship)
without needing to be an oversighter (1) Which means that the policy
page at [[:fr:Wikipédia:Masqueur d'adresses IP]] (more or less the
same as [[:en:Wikipedia:Oversight]]) is a joke. Every single admin has
virtually the same power as an oversighter.
If you don't like it, you can request that it be switched off, using
Bugzilla. You will need to demonstrate that the community is in favour
of such an action.
* The pdf tool is not fulfilling the licenses of
images imported from
Flickr. This is typically a tool enabled on all projects without
consulting with the communities. That tool should be disabled at once
from all project, until it is repaired (which might mean redevelopped
from scratch). (2)
Is there a bug report for this?
-- Tim Starling