On Friday, January 27, 2006, at 05:04 pm, Alison
Wheeler wrote:
Separately, I was doing some research earlier and
noted that all the
correspondance on this list - discussing legal issues too - is available
through a quick Google search as it is publicly acccessible. Especially
given that there have been many matters which really shouldn't be public
pre-registration this is somewhat worrying and, sfaiac, this list should
not be used for company matters once a secure alternative is created.
Matters discussing the improvement and activities of our wiki projects,
etc. are certainly well-served by being here though.
I've been offline for a week (oh! the insanity!), and am just
catching up. However, on this subject, I think its worth noting that:
- Wikipedia is an open, collaborative community
- anyone can (or could have) signed up to this mailing list at any
time, and can search the archives
- that we have been discussing formation of (what will become)
Wikimedia UK entirely in the open, inclusively, with easy-to-follow
pointers from
wiki*.org is a *strength*. It avoids any future
criticism that WUK is unrepresentative, or that it was set up by a
clique, the self-appointed, etc. It was set up in an open,
transparent and accountable manner. That is A Good Thing.
- that's not to say that the trustees have to conduct all their
discussions in the open.
Well said!
Should we formally ask the list moderators to close the list?
Or not?
Irony?
:-)
I have not booked the pub, since there was no consensus. May I
suggest that have an IRC chat on the Wikiemedia UK channel on Sunday
29th at 6pm? That is 18:00 UTC.
Best regards,
--
Gordo (aka LoopZilla)
gordon.joly(a)pobox.com