While I agree that this page *could *have been made more visible, Sue had little reason to widely advertise it, and I do not understand why do you think the WMF should have formally announced it. It was a work page for her personal brainstorming, one that was "not a collaborative process" and certainly not an official WMF page.
This is what we have the *Signpost *for, and it was covered there on 8 October under "In brief" ( http://enwp.org/WP:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-10-08/News_and_notes). Regards, --Ed On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:14 AM, ENWP Pine <deyntest...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I appreciate the comments of Jan-Bart and DeltaQuad regarding process and > openness, although I feel that we're veering off topic a little from the > subject of COIs. > > Since we're veering anyway, I would like to make a distinction between > providing openness and providing notice. To the best of my ability to see, > Sue's deliberations weren't announced here on Wikimedia-l by anyone from > WMF. I appreciate Sue having the discussion in the open, but I think the > notice to the community that these deliberations were happening was little > to none from what I can tell. Notice to Wikimedia-l and Research-l was > provided by me (not anyone from WMF) when I found the proposal's pages a > mere two days before Sue's stated wrap-up date of October 14. From my point > of view, the absence of notice to the community via this list was a > communications shortcoming that I feel is worrisome. I informed a staffer > of this on his talk page but he didn't acknowledge my comment, which > further heightens my concern about communications gaps, so if someone at > WMF could tell me to whom I should address my concern about these > communications issues, I would appreciate it. > > Thanks, > > Pine > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org <Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l