[Foundation-l] Making wikimediafoundation.org more open to contributions

Fri Jan 28 06:05:58 UTC 2011

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> 2011/1/27 MZMcBride <z at 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
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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
jamesofur at gmail.com