What I struggle to understand is that the Foundation was consulting about methods of making the blog more open which was intended, from what I understand, to allow more community members to manage it.
James, Tilman please can you explain the situation with the blog and why you removed the volunteer admins? Sent from my iPhone --- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone On 13 May 2013, at 08:48, Huib Laurens <[email protected]> wrote: > It had volunteer administrators untill 6 months ago. > > Huib > > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:46 PM, rupert THURNER > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> While i fully understand that contents on a domain called >> wikimediafoundation should be foundation managed (i see your point though >> that a notification would have been nice), i do not appreciate that a blog >> on wikimedia.org has no volunteer administrators. The project domains are >> core to the wikimedia volunteer based movement. >> >> Rupert. >> Am 12.05.2013 19:59 schrieb "Florence Devouard" <[email protected]>: >> >>> On 5/11/13 10:03 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: >>> >>>> On 11.05.2013 21:26, David Gerard wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 11 May 2013 19:45, rupert THURNER <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> i would have expected a "movement blog" behind this URL, appropriate >>>>>> to the usage of the domain, but i am not sure if i am completely >>>>>> misreading this? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Comcom has been actively seeking more contributions from people other >>>>> than Foundation staff. Most chapters have their own blog, but posts >>>>> from them for the Wikimedia blog are in practice heartily welcomed. >>>>> (Particularly in multiple languages.) There's even posts about >>>>> projects other than Wikipedia or Commons ;-) Matthew Roth can probably >>>>> clarify (cc'd). >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> - d. >>>> At this point I am lost. Comcom is made of the representative of >>>> chapters, right? (I just happen to know this because the representatives >>>> of the Russian chapter there have hmm... complicated relations with the >>>> communities of Russian language projects). Is the blog then the business >>>> of WMF and chapters? >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> Yaroslav >>>> >>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list >>>> [email protected].**org <[email protected]> >>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> >>> >>> >>> The blog and comcom are actually quite separated. >>> >>> The blog appears to be primarly Wikimedia Foundation blog, but they love >>> "invited posts" that feeds the stream. >>> >>> Comcom is made of many different types of people. Staff and volunteers. >>> WMF and chapters. Affiliated or non affiliated. >>> >>> Flo >>> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list >>> [email protected].**org <[email protected]> >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l< >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > > > > -- > Met vriendelijke groet, > > Huib Laurens > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
