[Foundation-l] Is a research banner "advertising" of the evil sort?

[Nathan]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 December 2011 15:32, Béria Lima <berialima at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Not IRC, the private mailing list with Chapters + staff, I'm sure you heard
>> of it before.
>>
>> And Kim, as far as I know there are NO WAY to put a sumary in a Central
>> Notice action. And I'm not a en.wiki user, so I'm not forced to give any
>> reason to en.wiki community about a action I took in another wiki. As for
>> meta, there was a page (
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Central_notice_requests) created AFTER
>> I disable the banner.
>>
>> And again, that was not a "on-wiki consensus": That was an action who
>> started with a staff of WMF, discussed privately, put on air, discussed in
>> a private mailing list, and took off. When I need to do anything on en.wiki
>> I follow en.wiki, until there, don't try to imposse them to me.
>> _____
>>
>
>
> Unless I'm missing something critical here, I believe it was the Research
> Committee, not the WMF staff, who approved the use of a central notice
> banner.  Whether or not  that is within their scope is a separate issue
> that should be discussed elsewhere.
>
> I am pleased to see the creation of a page at Meta to discuss Central
> Notice requests.
>
> Risker/Anne
> _______________________________________________


FWIW, the banner was switched on by Philippe (using his WMF account).

~Nathan