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

[rupert THURNER]

What should not be missed out in the discussion is the fact that blog post
according to current guidelines should be written on the wiki. Additionally
accounts are not integrated. Operations is afraid of spikes, and spam. So
why not just use the best platform we all know for this, and where the
posts anyway get written now? Mediawiki. Wikinews allows original research.
Having an additional type of communication on there would drive the project
and solve all technical problems. That should not say that there might not
be some other problems, but i would love to hear about them.

Rupert
Am 06.09.2013 16:32 schrieb "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki at gmail.com>:

> David Gerard, 06/09/2013 15:22:
>
>> On 6 September 2013 14:19, MZMcBride wrote:
>>
>>  This seems to focus on blog editors, but not blog visitors. If I visit
>>> wordpress.com, I see that my Web browser deflects Google Analytics,
>>> KissMetrics, Quantcast, and WordPress Stats. If I visit wordpress.org, I
>>> see that my browser deflects Google Analytics, Quantcast, Twitter Button,
>>> and Facebook Social Plugins.
>>>
>>
>> Yes. It's important that none of this happen.
>>
>
> Speaking of which, WMF got some visitor stats for the blog just a few
> months ago[1] which are also publicly available in aggregate as of a few
> days ago[2], using EventLogging: will the same system be usable also from a
> third-party installation?
>         Also, I understand that the details of the security incident
> mentioned earlier are kept private, but is it something that can't be
> solved by hosting the blog on some scalable cloud service such as heroku or
> whatever, as we already do for wikitech-static wiki (and did for
> wikitech-old wiki)?
>         Of course I'm not adding anything WMF doesn't know already; just
> mentioning a couple points worth addressing in future explanations of
> whatever decision is made.
>
> Nemo
>
> [1] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/**index.php?title=Talk:**
> Wikimedia_budget&diff=prev&**oldid=5640956<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_budget&diff=prev&oldid=5640956>
> >
> [2] <https://ganglia.wikimedia.**org/latest/graph.php?r=week&z=**
> xlarge&title=&vl=&x=&n=&hreg[]**=client-side&mreg[]=Blog&**
> gtype=line&glegend=show&**aggregate=1&embed=1&_=**1378369345031<https://ganglia.wikimedia.org/latest/graph.php?r=week&z=xlarge&title=&vl=&x=&n=&hreg[]=client-side&mreg[]=Blog&gtype=line&glegend=show&aggregate=1&embed=1&_=1378369345031>
> >
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