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

[Thehelpfulone]

What I struggle to understand is that the Foundation was consulting about methods of making the blog more open which was intended, from what I understand,  to allow more community members to manage it.

James, Tilman please can you explain the situation with the blog and why you removed the volunteer admins?

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On 13 May 2013, at 08:48, Huib Laurens <sterkebak at gmail.com> wrote:

> It had volunteer administrators untill 6 months ago.
> 
> Huib
> 
> 
> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:46 PM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner at 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 at 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 at 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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