On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 8:49 AM Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Phase V confirmed! -- I hope this means related features (a calendar + > forum :) are getting included in mediawiki propre... > > đđđđ > Indeed, it has been a mistake to keep spinning off new discussion platforms, in the hope that the next one will be different and controllable and totally replace everything else. This has been an anti-pattern for a decade. Far better to make a real investment (including both a social and a technical investment) in the actual community platforms based on MediaWiki, where many of the ideas that were developed for Space could be rather more fruitfully applied, and the existing eforts by good people not be put to waste. Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) > On Tue., Feb. 18, 2020, 5:31 a.m. Quim Gil, <q...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > Last year, the Wikimedia Foundation launched Wikimedia Space to > experiment > > with new ways to connect volunteers, increase movement participation, and > > showcase community stories. While we remain committed to this important > > goal, based on lessons learned through the Space prototype, the > Foundation > > has decided to close Discuss Space. The Space blog, which continues to > fill > > a need to share news for the movement by the movement, will continue in a > > new home. Please continue to submit community-focused stories [1], so > that > > we may share them with the movement. > > > > To learn more about the next steps, check the full announcement at > > https://space.wmflabs.org/2020/02/18/next-steps-on-wikimedia-space/ > > > > We have learned a lot from this initiative and want to thank all Space > > users [2] for their time and contributions. We also invite everyone > > interested in documenting lessons learned and discussing next steps to > join > > us in taking this effort even further, either at the About Wikimedia > Space > > category in Discuss [3] or the Space talk page in Meta [4]. > > > > [1] > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Space/Editorial_guidelines#How_to_get_started > > [2] https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/u?period=all > > [3] https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/c/about-wikimedia-space/2 > > [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Space > > > > -- > > Quim Gil (he/him) > > Senior Manager of Community Relations @ Wikimedia Foundation > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Qgil-WMF > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
