[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia blog moving to WordPress.com

[Richard Symonds]

This is being discussed on-wiki too, at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Privacy_policy#Blog_not_hosted_by_WordPress.3F
.

Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK
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On 5 September 2013 14:00, Neil Harris <neil at tonal.clara.co.uk> wrote:

> On 05/09/13 13:37, MZMcBride wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> The recent draft privacy policy mentions that the Wikimedia blog
>> (<https://blog.wikimedia.org>) will soon be hosted by WordPress.com.
>>
>> Was this discussed anywhere? If so, where?
>>
>> What is the proposed URL structure of a blog hosted by WordPress.com? I
>> think there's a reasonable expectation that when a user visits
>> *.wikimedia.org, we don't simply send his or her browser info to a third
>> party without his or her consent. This has come up previously with Jobvite
>> and iframes. It's also come up with the use of tracking tools such as
>> Google Analytics, which not only affect one-time visitors, but aim to
>> persist client-side.
>>
>> How will the blog be backed up? Relying on an external service means not
>> being in control of the data. Will there be regular backups made to ensure
>> that if WordPress.com goes away, we won't lose all of our posts?
>>
>> MZMcBride
>>
>>
>>
>>
> I agree: this does seem to be a curious decision, at odds with the WMF's
> general policy of self-hosting as much as possible in order to maintain
> maximum independence from outside entities, particularly in the context of
> the recent concerns about privacy. I would have thought that maintaining a
> WordPress installation would be well within the WMF's capabilities.
>
> Neil
>
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