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

[Matthew Roth]

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:53 PM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.


We started drafting blog posts on Meta to encourage transparency and make
it easier to translate them. Mike Peel suggested we start doing it and it
makes sense for most posts (rather than drafting them locally on your
computer, or in another program). It's also easier this way for blog
editors because Tilman has written a
script<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Converting_wiki_pages_to_blog_posts>that
quickly converts markup to html.

Drafting on wiki is more of a good process than an ideal way to publish the
content, in my opinion.


> 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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