[Foundation-l] Pending Changes development update: September 27

[Erik Moeller]

2010/9/28 John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com>:
> IMO, the foundation could look to strengthen its global policies
> regarding content where living people are a subject. i.e. worded more
> like the non-free content resolution.  Then the projects _need_ to
> find appropriate solutions to conform to the WMF requirements, and
> tools like pending changes will be used if they help achieve
> compliance with the WMF policy.

You've seen the BLP resolution?

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Biographies_of_living_people

This has inspired lots of cross-language work on BLP policies, and is
referenced in many of them. It specifically asks for "investigating
new technical mechanisms to assess edits, particularly when they
affect living people, and to better enable readers to report
problems".
-- 
Erik Möller
Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation

Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate