[Wikimedia-l] Board pages on WMF wiki

[Matthew Roth]

Limited email connectivity today, but there is some discussion here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Talk:Board_of_Trustees

Will comment more soon,
-Matthew

On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> Well, it was added by Matthew Roth, one of the WMF's comms people. I don't
> know if it originated with him, but he should be able to tell its more.
>
> I agree with its removal. It's a very strange but of text to have in board
> member bios. Including the board member's accomplishments is fine, but they
> should be accomplishments of that member, not the whole board and certainly
> not things that had little, if anything, to do with the board.
> On Aug 11, 2012 7:57 AM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > A few days ago, along with the new trustee's biographies, a lengthy text
> > has been added (three times) to <https://wikimediafoundation.**
> > org/w/index.php?title=Board_**of_Trustees&oldid=83125<
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Board_of_Trustees&oldid=83125
> >>,
> > under the mysterious title "Tenure Accomplishments", mentioning an
> > unheard-of "new format" for bios.
> > As this is not about the individual trustee's activity and there were a
> > number of problems, the text has been removed, but it seemed to be given
> > some importance so it's been restored elsewhere, as "Summary of
> > resolutions" (a more neutral term).
> > You can see the history here: <https://wikimediafoundation.**
> > org/w/index.php?title=**Resolutions&dir=prev&offset=**
> > 20120720133234&limit=12&**action=history<
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Resolutions&dir=prev&offset=20120720133234&limit=12&action=history
> >>
> >
> > The worst parts have been removed or fixed, but there's still much
> > objectionable content, see some examples here: <
> > https://wikimediafoundation.**org/?diff=83158&oldid=83156<
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/?diff=83158&oldid=83156>
> > >
> > It would be useful to know who's responsible for writing this piece of
> > text and what purpose it's supposed to serve, so that interested people
> can
> > understand it and possibly help improve it.
> > Thanks,
> >         Nemo
> >
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