On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Teofilo <teofilow...@gmail.com> wrote: > During the past few years, the new softwares of the Wikimedia > Foundations have been developped in a too much anarchic way. > > * They are sometimes implemented as a whim of a few WMF big wheels, > without consulting the user communities. > > * We are never shown specifications defining the goals of the planned > softwares, which makes me doubt such specifications are ever written. > With specifications being written and published, problems could be > talked in a proactive way. > > A few problems : > > * The developpers have enabled for every Admin of the French > Wikipedia, the possibility to mask (and exert acts of censorship) > without needing to be an oversighter (1) Which means that the policy > page at [[:fr:Wikipédia:Masqueur d'adresses IP]] (more or less the > same as [[:en:Wikipedia:Oversight]]) is a joke. Every single admin has > virtually the same power as an oversighter. > > * The pdf tool is not fulfilling the licenses of images imported from > Flickr. This is typically a tool enabled on all projects without > consulting with the communities. That tool should be disabled at once > from all project, until it is repaired (which might mean redevelopped > from scratch). (2) > > Conclusion : Because more software means more harm, I call for a > moratorium (1 year? 6 months ?) on all new software developpements. > During that time the developpers should be allowed to repair only > obvious and urgent bugs. > > (1) A statement by a French admin saying that such acts are currently > performed by simple admins : > http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikip%C3%A9dia%3ABulletin_des_administrateurs%2F2010%2FSemaine_36&action=historysubmit&diff=56843997&oldid=56843680 > > (2) Example provided here : > http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikip%C3%A9dia%3ALe_Bistro%2F4_septembre_2010&action=historysubmit&diff=56786685&oldid=56786681 > IF something doesn't meet the expectations or is configured wrongly, gain local community consensus (mostly for the latter situation) and then post a bug in bugzilla requesting the configuration be changed. -Peachey
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