Hi Mike,

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 11:55 PM Mike Peel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is this a legitimate WMF website?


It is a pre-launch site going through a community review and maintained by
the Movement Strategy and Governance team at the Wikimedia Foundation.


> Trying to trace where this website is
> being hosted doesn't go very far - the domain seems have its DNS at
> gandi.net, with the registration via pir.org, and its contact info is at
> afilias.info? Compare to wikimedia.org that at least says "Registrant
> Organization: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.".



Yes, this is being discussed at one of the questions of the community
review:

What do you think about the proposed name and domain?
https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/what-do-you-think-about-the-proposed-name-and-domain/53


> There is no on-site privacy policy, it just links to
> wikimediafoundation.org?


See this pinned topic:

User privacy considerations in this forum
https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/user-privacy-considerations-in-this-forum/55


> It's also very much not a mediawiki installation?
>

It's a Discourse instance. https://discourse.org is an open-source platform
specializing in community conversations.


>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> On 31/5/22 22:38:11, Quim Gil wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > This is an invitation to all Movement Strategy participants and
> > Wikimedians in general to try out a new platform for truly multilingual
> > collaboration:
> >
> > Movement Strategy Forum - https://forum.movement-strategy.org/
> > <https://forum.movement-strategy.org/>
> >
> > We have started a community review
> > <
> https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/movement-strategy-forum-community-review/46>
>
> > period of two months. If the community feedback is positive, the Forum
> > will launch in August 2022 before Wikimania. If not, we will follow the
> > feedback received, changing the proposal or closing it.
> >
> > We opened the Forum on May 24 with targeted outreach, hoping that the
> > new site features would work. 😅 A week later, the Wikimedia login has
> > been used by +200 users, the automatic translation is allowing speakers
> > of different languages to discuss together, and we are ready to welcome
> > more reviewers, testers, and other curious minds.
> >
> > We have just released the first weekly report
> > <https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/forum-weekly-report/387>. Looking
>
> > forward to reading your first impressions in the next one!
> >
> > --
> > Quim Gil (he/him)
> > Director of Movement Strategy & Governance @ Wikimedia Foundation
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Qgil-WMF
> > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Qgil-WMF>
> >
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Qgil-WMF
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