[Foundation-l] Is a research banner "advertising" of the evil sort?

Fri Dec 9 20:01:57 UTC 2011

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 08:32:06PM +0000, B?ria Lima wrote:
> Not IRC, the private mailing list with Chapters + staff, I'm sure you heard
> of it before.

Indeed I have.

> And Kim, as far as I know there are NO WAY to put a sumary in a Central
> Notice action. And I'm not a en.wiki user, so I'm not forced to give any
> reason to en.wiki community about a action I took in another wiki. As for
> meta, there was a page (
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Central_notice_requests) created AFTER
> I disable the banner.

Just for an action on meta, I'm sure meta has the same rule.

> And again, that was not a "on-wiki consensus": That was an action who
> started with a staff of WMF, discussed privately, put on air, discussed in
> a private mailing list, and took off.

Right, none of which is valid for meta _or_ for en.wikipedia afaik.

>  When I need to do anything on en.wiki
> I follow en.wiki, until there, don't try to imposse them to me.

That said, your action did have consequences on-wiki on en.wikipedia, didn't it?

I don't really want to turn this into a bureaucratic fight; just a small note to
be careful. In the end you acted correctly according to consensus, albeit by
accident, as you now confirm.

sincerely,
	Kim Bruning

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