Hi, Le mercredi 04 août 2010 à 15:39 -0700, Neil Kandalgaonkar a écrit : > On 8/4/10 3:14 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar<ne...@wikimedia.org> > > wrote: > >> On a more serious note: when it comes to Flash on Wikimedia projects, > >> the WMF board has said no. > > > > Has it? Where? I think everyone is grudgingly okay for Flash as a > > fallback for browsers that don't support standards-based markup . . . > > but not if it's the only way to get the functionality. > > I looked for some sort of meeting minutes before posting, but couldn't > find them. Maybe I don't know where or how to look.
I don't think there is an official Board resolution about the use of proprietary technologies on Wikimedia projects. However, Brion and Erik have been known to have a pretty strong opinion on that, and I believe Danese and a large part of the WMF tech staff are in the same place. A few relevant links for a historical perspective: * "We should permit Flash video playback" thread on foundation-l in 2007 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.commons/2220/ * "Software policy draft" thread on foundation-l in 2007 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/19547/ * The actual draft: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Draft_Statement_of_Principles_Regarding_Software_Use -- Guillaume Paumier Product Manager, Multimedia Usability Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
