Hello Pine
Thank you for your response. We appreciate the stewardship that the
community has on meta, and this is not in dispute.
In this case because we are working with a system that aims to collect
Affiliates data in a structured form, as well as make it accessible to the
community via query tools, it became necessary to protect the Lua modules
and tables that hold this data. The forms themselves are protected by.
default and accessible to administrators only. The individual Affiliates
remain in control of the data that they will submit via these forms.
As the data grows, it is possible that we may move that to another wiki,
should current security concerns on the data validity and integrity
increase. However, we strongly felt that the forms should be developed on
meta in order to avoid disrupting established reporting norms by Wikimedia
Affiliates.
Be assured that we will continue to be sensitive to community stewardship
as we improve the system.
Best regards
Dumisani Ndubane
Monitoring & Evaluation Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:16 PM Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Dumisani ,
I would like to remind you of the questions in this thread, although I
understand that there may be some delays in getting responses due to
the issues with Covid-19.
I have not looked into the new portal and I don't have an opinion
about it, but I hope that affiliates will find it to be an
improvement.
I have one point that I would like to make. Protection of a page is an
administrative action, and I do not believe that any WMF staff should
make content administrative actions on Meta unless under exceptional
circumstances such as a legal mandate. If WMF wants a page on Meta to
be protected, then WMF should make a request to a community
administrator for page protection, which the administrator may
independently decide whether to grant. If WMF wants more control over
content, then a more appropriate venue for affiliate reports would be
one of the WMF wikis instead of a (mostly) community wiki. I feel that
it is important that WMF staff not encroach on the jurisdiction of the
community such as by making administrative actions, however small,
that can and should be done instead by community administrators.
Thanks,
Pine
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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