Hello,
Frankly, I am surprised by the announcement, too. Maybe I do not spend
enough time on wikis and mailinglists? :/
In general I am very curious for this new platform. I find it quite ...
telling or a bad signal that many wikipedians started to prefer discussing
wiki topics on Facebook (1) rather than on the village pumps. Including me.
One of the reasons is the toxic atmosphere on many wiki pages, while the
Facebook groups are moderated.
Kind regards
Ziko
Am Mi., 26. Juni 2019 um 09:19 Uhr schrieb geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 at 22:19, Yair Rand
<yyairrand(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm getting so many red flags.
Established by WMF via secret (non-transparent) process, with no
community
involvement? Non-wiki environment, with the same
scope as existing wikis?
WMF-decided conduct policies? Every single moderator is a WMF employee?
Forum using closed groups, with non-transparent communication?
(Closed-source software, unless I'm mistaken?) So far outside Wikimedia
spaces that the only place it was even _announced_ was an off-wiki
mailing
list?
Is there something the Wikimedia Foundation would like to tell us?
-- Yair Rand
While I agree that a good tracking mount, a reasonable telescope and
some CCDs would be a better use of the money (there are some
satellites I want pics of) I don't see anything particular nefarious
here. Improving communications is a long term goal and shifting away
from mediawiki appears on the face of it a good way to do that (we are
after all on a mailing list at the moment. In practice experience
suggests that most people are too busy doing what they are already
doing to get involved in such projects and that mediawiki is so
central to what we are do that most people are pretty comfortable with
it.
So this falls well within the WMF’s nominal goals and is a fairly
understandable approach. I still think we would be better off spending
the money on the kit needed to get a pic of Kosmos 482.
--
geni
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