I'm also concerned, and I have some reasons. Graphs have been broken for more than a
month now, and it doesn't seem that they are going to recover, losing opportunities to
show things in a more interesting way. Some efforts we have made to show Ourworldindata
maps and graphs are also stopped at "security review". Some years ago, we
launched (and invested lot of money on) a system that would read the articles in some
languages but it never succeeded because of the same reason.
And I would accept that having third-party resources is not the best option if we had
product team working on those features. But this isn't happening and doesn't seem
it will happen in the future. Some years ago we were obsolete. Now we are paleolithic, a
relic for archaeologists of the Internet. Meanwhile, other platforms are advancing by the
day on new features. Every day we are further from our 2030 strategic goal.
Best
Galder
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From: James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, June 5, 2023 1:04 PM
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Call for feedback on a proposed Third-party resources policy
I have concerns about this policy. We are a collaborative movement and will succeed more
by working collaboratively with other like minded organizations than by building a walled
garden where only software run from WMF staff controlled production servers can reach our
readers.
On WikiVoyage for example we have relief maps as an optional overlay that is viewable
following a notice that external data sources will be accessed.
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/K2_base_camp_trek It sounds like this policy would end
this. Which in my opinion would be a loss.
James
On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 2:03 AM Samuel Guebo
<sguebo@wikimedia.org<mailto:sguebo@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
Hi everyone,
The Foundation’s Security team is gathering feedback on a draft policy about third-party
resources from June 05 to July 17, 2023.
Because this policy may impact gadgets and user scripts, inputs and suggestions on its
content are warmly welcome.
You can read more about the policy and join the discussion on
meta-wiki<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Third-party_resources_policy&g…gt;[1].
Hope to see you there!
On the behalf of the Foundation’s Security team
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Third-party_resources_policy
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