On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:46 AM, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
2016-09-30 1:18 GMT+03:00 Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.org:
The local projects in this case are MediaWiki.org, wikitech.wikimedia.org, Phabricator, Gerrit, the technical mailing lists, the technical IRC channels, and Etherpad.
Activity in village pumps or elsewhere on other projects is not in scope.
Agreed. Still, a mention in the Technical News now and then would have been nice. The ArchCom's activity, which is likely of interest to fewer people, is present in every edition of the news.
I think that's because I've – mainly unconsciously, perhaps – been seeing ArchCom meetings as a chance for technically advanced editors to get a grasp of future changes to all the Wikimedia wikis, but the Code of Conduct discussion as an internal process for the people involved in the spaces mentioned by Matt. Important to spread information about on Phabricator, MediaiWiki.org, technical mailing lists et cetera but perhaps not suitable for a newsletter that is mainly trying to explain technical changes to editors who are not active on those platforms – the same way I wouldn't include an invitation to take part of a process that's specific for English Wikipedia.
(The ArchCom meetings are actually included in less than half the issues – I'm counting seven mentions in the last twenty weeks – but that doesn't take away Strainu's point: It's a technical item that's regularly included.)
//Johan Jönsson --