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

[Lodewijk]

This was definitely mentioned at Wikimania. What I understood is that it
will be hosted externally for performance and reliability reasons, but that
the rest should remain the same.

Anyway, I'm not an expert here, just what I understood from Matthew Roth &
friends

Lodewijk


2013/9/5 Richard Symonds <richard.symonds at wikimedia.org.uk>

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