[Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

[Ed Erhart]

While I agree that this page *could *have been made more visible, Sue had
little reason to widely advertise it, and I do not understand why do you
think the WMF should have formally announced it. It was a work page for her
personal brainstorming, one that was "not a collaborative process" and
certainly not an official WMF page.

This is what we have the *Signpost *for, and it was covered there on 8
October under "In brief" (
http://enwp.org/WP:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-10-08/News_and_notes).

Regards,
--Ed

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:14 AM, ENWP Pine <deyntestiss at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I appreciate the comments of Jan-Bart and DeltaQuad regarding process and
> openness, although I feel that we're veering off topic a little from the
> subject of COIs.
>
> Since we're veering anyway, I would like to make a distinction between
> providing openness and providing notice. To the best of my ability to see,
> Sue's deliberations weren't announced here on Wikimedia-l by anyone from
> WMF. I appreciate Sue having the discussion in the open, but I think the
> notice to the community that these deliberations were happening was little
> to none from what I can tell. Notice to Wikimedia-l and Research-l was
> provided by me (not anyone from WMF) when I found the proposal's pages a
> mere two days before Sue's stated wrap-up date of October 14. From my point
> of view, the absence of notice to the community via this list was a
> communications shortcoming that I feel is worrisome. I informed a staffer
> of this on his talk page but he didn't acknowledge my comment, which
> further heightens my concern about communications gaps, so if someone at
> WMF could tell me to whom I should address my concern about these
> communications issues, I would appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pine
>
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