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.
Thanks for confirming there's not a meeting on Sunday.
Scott
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