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

[Rschen7754]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Request_for_an_account_on_the_Foundation_wiki is quite backed up.

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On Nov 18, 2013, at 11:13 PM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 
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