[Foundation-l] Question: Guidelines with regard to topics suitable for Geonotices

Casey Brown lists at caseybrown.org
Sat Jul 30 18:35:04 UTC 2011


On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Fae <faenwp at gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be helpful if someone from the Foundation could
> confirm whether guidelines that might result from such discussions
> would be considered binding in the future for WMF and whether the
> geonotices service as supported by the Foundation might have
> restrictions on how it can be used or expectations for how it should
> be used and who ought to have final responsibility for the nature of
> the content of such geographically related notices.

As far as I know, those watchlist geonotices on the English Wikipedia
are something run by the English Wikipedia community. It's not related
to CentralNotice or the Wikimedia Foundation, so they don't really
determine the guidelines for its use -- enwiki's community does.

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Casey Brown
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