If there's no problem, then we should restore the status quo ante bellum - not being a problem is not a reason to not do (or undo) anything.
I think the members of this list are entitled to know when, why, by whom, and on whose instruction or advice the archives were made subscriber-only, and I think we're owed an explanation as to why nobody notified the list of this action.
Personally, I'm not especially fussed if the archives are public or private or what, but it's not the sort of thing that should be done without so much as a by-your-leave to the community - the list exists for the UK community, and the chapter and its board should not be attempting to govern it (especially not in camera), however pure their motives.
Harry
________________________________ From: James Farrar james.farrar@gmail.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, 6 April 2012, 0:31 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] List archives
The counter-argument is, of course, if the archives are trivially available, what is the problem? On Apr 5, 2012 11:20 PM, "Thomas Dalton" thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 April 2012 23:10, Thomas Morton morton.thomas@googlemail.com wrote:
Well; someone just told me I was mistaken and that wasn't the reason. Sorry!
Perhaps that someone would like to tell us what the actual reason was?
All having the archives private does is make it more inconvenient. Anyone can still access them by subscribing. They are still indexed by search engines because there are unofficial archives elsewhere on the web. What is the gain?
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