[Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

[Tim Starling]

On 06/09/10 20:33, Teofilo wrote:
> During the past few years, the new softwares of the Wikimedia
> Foundations  have been developped in a too much anarchic way.
> 
> * They are sometimes implemented as a whim of a few WMF big wheels,
> without consulting the user communities.

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3576
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15644
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18780

> * We are never shown specifications defining the goals of the planned
> softwares, which makes me doubt such specifications are ever written.
> With specifications being written and published, problems could be
> talked in a proactive way.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bitfields_for_rev_deleted

> * The developpers have enabled for every Admin of the French
> Wikipedia, the possibility to mask (and exert acts of censorship)
> without needing to be an oversighter (1) Which means that the policy
> page at [[:fr:Wikipédia:Masqueur d'adresses IP]] (more or less the
> same as [[:en:Wikipedia:Oversight]]) is a joke. Every single admin has
> virtually the same power as an oversighter.

If you don't like it, you can request that it be switched off, using
Bugzilla. You will need to demonstrate that the community is in favour
of such an action.

> * The pdf tool is not fulfilling the licenses of images imported from
> Flickr. This is typically a tool enabled on all projects without
> consulting with the communities. That tool should be disabled at once
> from all project, until it is repaired (which might mean redevelopped
> from scratch). (2)

Is there a bug report for this?

-- Tim Starling