[Foundation-l] Question: Guidelines with regard to topics suitable for Geonotices

Sat Jul 30 19:47:17 UTC 2011

On Jul 30, 2011, at 9:35 PM, Casey Brown wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Fae <faenwp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It would be helpful if someone from the Foundation could
>> confirm whether guidelines that might result from such discussions
>> would be considered binding in the future for WMF and whether the
>> geonotices service as supported by the Foundation might have
>> restrictions on how it can be used or expectations for how it should
>> be used and who ought to have final responsibility for the nature of
>> the content of such geographically related notices.
> 
> As far as I know, those watchlist geonotices on the English Wikipedia
> are something run by the English Wikipedia community. It's not related
> to CentralNotice or the Wikimedia Foundation, so they don't really
> determine the guidelines for its use -- enwiki's community does.
> 
> -- 
> Casey Brown
> Cbrown1023

The sad thing about this is while the discussion on-wiki displays an appalling lack-of-good-faith and some disturbingly poor behavior from some admins who really ought to know better, unfortunately this list is really not the right venue for this sort of thing; even though I'd venture to say that the audience on this list are significantly more likely to be knowledgeable about the issues surrounding the geonotice and the job posting than those people on wiki.

Frustrating.

-Dan