Hi,
Risker have opened June 17th a discussion to allow the MediaWiki.org community to adopt an alternate disclosure policy.
Quickly, a consensus has been reached.
The format chosen, a formal RFC instead of a consultation of MediaWiki.org community, doesn't allow a community member to close the RFC. According https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Process, "Look for the decision from Tim Starling, Brion Vibber, Mark Bergsma, or an appointed delegate."
The RFC format is maybe a peculiar chose considering this, as the Wikimedia Foundation TOU provides the alternative policy to be chosen by the Wikimedia Project community. This current discussion doesn't really qualify as an engineering change.
So, I hereby request if Tim Starling, Brion Vibber or Mark Bergsma could close the discussion, and I also offers my services to be an appointed delegate with a mandate strictly limited to the closure of the RFC "Alternate disclosure policy", so I could be allowed to close it. In the last case, I'll then implement it (by documenting on meta and creating an help page) immediately.
Link for those who are looking for it: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Alternate_disclosure_pol...
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Sébastien Santoro <dereckson@espace-win.org
wrote:
So, I hereby request if Tim Starling, Brion Vibber or Mark Bergsma could close the discussion, and I also offers my services to be an appointed delegate with a mandate strictly limited to the closure of the RFC "Alternate disclosure policy", so I could be allowed to close it. In the last case, I'll then implement it (by documenting on meta and creating an help page) immediately.
And to be clear, since someone raised this with me off-list, legal/LCA has no objection to this. (I did raise a mild quibble on the talk page, but like I said - a mild quibble.)
Luis
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