[Foundation-l] Open Wiki Blog Planet

[Sage Ross]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Gregory Kohs <thekohser at gmail.com> wrote:
> David Gerard says:
>
> +++++++++++++
>
> 2009/12/15 Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com
> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l>>:
>
>>* Have you added your new blog to Open Wiki Blog Planet and the Wikimedia
> *>* aggregator?
> *
>
> The en:wp arbcom have started messing with the Open Wiki Blog Planet,
> on the pretext that if the control page is on en:wp then they must own
> it. Suggest moving control page to Meta.
>
>
> - d.
>
> +++++++++++++
>
> David, could you please provide more detail to your characterization that
> ArbCom is "messing with" this aggregator?
>

He must have been talking about this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ANickj%2Fopen-wikiblogplanet-config.ini&action=historysubmit&diff=330197740&oldid=325150787

John Vandenberg removed David Shankbone's blog, with the comment
"remove Shankbone's blog; feel free to add if it can be filtered to
exclude posts that attack BLPs".

For what it's worth, I agree with David Gerard that Open Wiki Blog
Planet is not properly subject to Wikipedia policies; David Shankbone
and other bloggers have a responsibility to own their own words and
deal with any consequences, but (unlike Planet Wikimedia, perhaps) I
don't see any formal connection between Wikipedia and the aggregator
except that the feed list happens to be hosted on en.wp.

-Sage