Quim Gil wrote:
On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 1:07 AM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
It's frustrating and annoying that your happy team hijacked this portal...
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Hostility and anger are not welcomed in this mailing list, neither in the rest of Wikimedia spaces. Any problems can be reported and explained in a respectful and even friendly way. The topics you are exposing in this thread are no exception.
I expressed frustration and annoyance. Those aren't the same as hostility or anger. And there's nothing wrong with being angry sometimes. Sometimes people do stupid things and anger is the most appropriate (or at least the most natural) reaction to have.
Please read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Expected_behavior for more thoughts about keeping our communities respectful, welcoming, and friendly. If you want to discuss my reply, please use the discussion page of the URL above, or reply to me directly. Let's keep this thread on-topic about the update to the www.wikipedia.org portal. Thank you.
No, you don't get to both start and end a tangent. You're as capable as anyone of starting a new thread and you chose not to.
rupert THURNER wrote:
quim, i would not be angry if you would show a little bit more empathy towards a client, a volunteer. if mzmcbride is right and there is a well established procedure to change this page which was not followed, the person not following might read the "expected behaviour" page.
Project portals such as www.wikipedia.org were managed on Meta-Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals. I believe most of the portals continue to be managed on Meta-Wiki, with the exception of www.wikipedia.org; background: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110070.
MZMcBride