[Wikimedia-l] movement blog, not WMF blog, was: Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

[Huib Laurens]

It had volunteer administrators untill 6 months ago.

Huib


On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:46 PM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner op gmail.com>wrote:

> While i fully understand that contents on a domain called
> wikimediafoundation should be foundation managed (i see your point though
> that a notification would have been nice), i do not appreciate that a blog
> on wikimedia.org has no volunteer administrators. The project domains are
> core to the wikimedia volunteer based movement.
>
> Rupert.
> Am 12.05.2013 19:59 schrieb "Florence Devouard" <anthere9 op yahoo.com>:
>
> > On 5/11/13 10:03 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
> >
> >> On 11.05.2013 21:26, David Gerard wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 11 May 2013 19:45, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner op gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  i would have expected a "movement blog" behind this URL, appropriate
> >>>> to the usage of the domain, but i am not sure if i am completely
> >>>> misreading this?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Comcom has been actively seeking more contributions from people other
> >>> than Foundation staff. Most chapters have their own blog, but posts
> >>> from them for the Wikimedia blog are in practice heartily welcomed.
> >>> (Particularly in multiple languages.) There's even posts about
> >>> projects other than Wikipedia or Commons ;-) Matthew Roth can probably
> >>> clarify (cc'd).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> - d.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> At this point I am lost. Comcom is made of the representative of
> >> chapters, right? (I just happen to know this because the representatives
> >> of the Russian chapter there have hmm... complicated relations with the
> >> communities of Russian language projects). Is the blog then the business
> >> of WMF and chapters?
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Yaroslav
> >>
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> >
> > The blog and comcom are actually quite separated.
> >
> > The blog appears to be primarly Wikimedia Foundation blog, but they love
> > "invited posts" that feeds the stream.
> >
> > Comcom is made of many different types of people. Staff and volunteers.
> > WMF and chapters. Affiliated or non affiliated.
> >
> > Flo
> >
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