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

Keegan Peterzell keegan.wiki at gmail.com
Wed Sep 29 18:17:32 UTC 2010


First off, this is getting a little hot under the collar.  Cucumbers,
people.  Cucumbers.

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> 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".
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> Erik Möller
> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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Second,

<cough>
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_People/Drafting_pages/Living_People_Policy

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