Re: [Langcom] Bulgarian Wikinews

Bulgarian Wikinews was locked for all contributors except sysops yesterday. Then some content was cleaned up, as previously discussed. That cleanup is now complete. At this point, the Phabricator task has requested that the sysadmins fully lock the project. But in fact both sysops have been deflagged now, so *de facto* this project is now only changeable by stewards and sysadmins. In other words, the project is closed.

Before we finalize the pseudo-deletion, there are a couple of details we need to work out at the Phabricator task. Most particularly, the original proposer has suggested (and appropriately in my view) that even if we redirect all other url's on the project to a single landing page, thereby hiding the rest of the project from public view, we should leave access to the Village Pump page and the Voting page, as the project closure proposal links to discussions on them quite frequently. That way, there will never be a question as to why this decision was made. (The alternative is to move archive copies of those pages somewhere else, perhaps to Meta.) In any event, I don't think how we do this needs to be a Committee decision; it's something I can work through with the sysadmins myself.