[Wikimedia-l] wikimediafoundation.org coup: six months later

[MZMcBride]

Hi.

Samuel Klein wrote:
>> The wiki continues to clutter up
>
>That's not quite apt. I see no backlog of requests for admin action, such
>as pages proposed for deletion.

With respect, the reality here is that there was a large ongoing cleanup
effort that got sidetracked by this coup.

The opening post, which quoted Tomasz, linked to
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges>,
which currently reads:

Maintenance: Deletion requests (7) · Proposed deletions (1,163)

There'd be a lot more proposed deletions (probably somewhere around
10,000) if all the volunteers hadn't been put out.

Leaving incorrect donation information and broken donation forms on the
site seems like a really bad idea. I think there's general agreement on
this point. Plus most of the donation infrastructure is supposed to have
moved to a separate wiki, as I understand it.

>Migrating all but the essential pages to Meta is a worthy idea, one
>discussed for some time.  Every editor on that wiki can work on that.

If we go in this direction, then we need to get serious about moving to
Meta-Wiki and do it systematically. I think making it a 2014 goal is a
reasonable timeframe.

MZMcBride