Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-11 Thread Milos Rancic
Sue (or anyone from staff who is more precisely in charge for this), may you just revert this and open discussion to reach more sensible solution? I understand that there could be a good reason for this action, but the way it's been handled is not the perfect one. And at least permissions on a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-11 Thread Craig Franklin
Yes, this. I must admit, it's tremendously demotivating and makes me quite upset that people like Aphaia, Anthere, Danny B. and Thehelpfulone, people who have put hundreds if not thousands of hours of effort into this movement without asking for a single cent, over many many years, are treated as

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

2013-05-11 Thread Nathan
It's also worth noting this wasn't a last minute decision at all; its foreshadowed in a number of comments by Philippe going back to seemingly mid-March, and there may be warnings of it earlier. So the WMF staff have been discussing this change internally for at least 6 weeks or so. That's a long

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