I rather welcome these changes. Also I support improvement on Meta feedback pages: a single page seems a better solution in these days.
Historically the foundation wiki was restricted just for avoiding spams, as far as I understood. Later we found some users who were proud of the foundation & movement knowledge weren't knowledgeable as they believed (information they had were outdated etc.), so to some extent restriction have made a sense. But I'd like to point out it was in days we had no FlaggedRev extention yet. For spamming concerns, I think FR will be a solution. Other concerns, on pages we don't want anyone touch casually, we need to take more time to consider what is the best. But not criticism, but a mere fact, I would point out wmf site whose editors have been all highly trusted users hasn't been immune from edit warring. Seeking for openness on foundation wiki fits the nature of our community and movement, I think, which the wiki should represents to the world. Cheers, On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:05 PM, James Alexander <jameso...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> 2011/1/27 MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com>: >> > In the spirit of being bold, I've taken a number of steps to correct what >> I >> > view as deficiencies in the current contribution system, all of which >> I'll >> > outline in this e-mail. If anyone has objections to these changes, >> they're >> > more than welcome to revert them and we can discuss ways to improve the >> > overall situation.[2] >> >> Looks great to me :-) >> >> I agree that the edit restrictions on the WMF wiki are very >> unfortunate and there's still much more that can be done (perhaps one >> day leading toward www.wikimedia.org as a single information, >> collaboration and discussion hub, subsuming both WMF and Meta, and >> possibly other backstage wikis). >> >> -- >> Erik Möller >> Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation >> >> Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > > > Agreed, There are pages that you would obviously not want touched but I > really wish it could be more open. In the long run I agree I think we want > something more all encompassing with the community etc. I believe there is > an extension that turns on raw html for protected pages only or by > namespace... though I've never used them before. In the long run I'm sure > there are lots of options but in the short run I like the changes. > > > -- > James Alexander > jameso...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- KIZU Naoko / 木津尚子 member of Wikimedians in Kansai / 関西ウィキメディアユーザ会 http://kansai.wikimedia.jp _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
