On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Gregory Kohs thekohser@gmail.com wrote:
David Gerard says:
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2009/12/15 Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l>:
- Have you added your new blog to Open Wiki Blog Planet and the Wikimedia
*>* aggregator?
The en:wp arbcom have started messing with the Open Wiki Blog Planet, on the pretext that if the control page is on en:wp then they must own it. Suggest moving control page to Meta.
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David, could you please provide more detail to your characterization that ArbCom is "messing with" this aggregator?
He must have been talking about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ANickj%2Fopen-wikiblogplanet...
John Vandenberg removed David Shankbone's blog, with the comment "remove Shankbone's blog; feel free to add if it can be filtered to exclude posts that attack BLPs".
For what it's worth, I agree with David Gerard that Open Wiki Blog Planet is not properly subject to Wikipedia policies; David Shankbone and other bloggers have a responsibility to own their own words and deal with any consequences, but (unlike Planet Wikimedia, perhaps) I don't see any formal connection between Wikipedia and the aggregator except that the feed list happens to be hosted on en.wp.
-Sage