Bulgarian Wikinews was locked for all contributors except sysops yesterday. Then some
content was cleaned up, as previously discussed. That cleanup is now complete.
At this point, the Phabricator task has requested that the sysadmins fully lock the
project. But in fact both sysops have been deflagged now, so de facto this project is now
only changeable by stewards and sysadmins. In other words, the project is closed.
Before we finalize the pseudo-deletion, there are a couple of details we need to work out
at the Phabricator task. Most particularly, the original proposer has suggested (and
appropriately in my view) that even if we redirect all other url's on the project to a
single landing page, thereby hiding the rest of the project from public view, we should
leave access to the Village Pump page and the Voting page, as the project closure proposal
links to discussions on them quite frequently. That way, there will never be a question as
to why this decision was made. (The alternative is to move archive copies of those pages
somewhere else, perhaps to Meta.) In any event, I don't think how we do this needs to
be a Committee decision; it's something I can work through with the sysadmins myself.
Thanks to all for your participation in this frankly difficult and sad process.
Steven
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