Thanks Mike, I'm very much in favor of a redesign, with a reset of internal subscribers.
What about a session during wikimedia conf in Milan about improving tools for communication within the movement partners? Charles Le 3 avr. 2013 à 12:34, Michael Peel <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hi all, > > There's currently a proposal on the internal mailing list to close it, as > well as the internal wiki. Although I don't disagree with closing the > internal-l mailing list (it's definitely served its time), I would like us to > collectively reconsider using the internal wiki. > > There is information within the Wikimedia movement that can't be shared > publicly. Some of that information has been shared on the internal wiki, but > much has been kept confidential within the various Wikimedia organisations > that now exist. I think there's a lot of benefit to sharing more of that > information in a confidential fashion on an internal wiki, and that we should > start doing that much more than we're currently doing. > > Some examples of what I mean here are: > # Agreements, particularly those with global impact, and/or where they affect > more than one Wikimedia organisation. Part of the recent > Monmouthpedia/Gibraltarpedia situation was caused by a lack of transparency > about who had signed what agreements, and when they had been signed - if > these had all been shared on an internal wiki then some of this could have > been avoided. There's also a lot of experience now with existing agreements > that could be reused when new agreements are being written, e.g. for > Wikimedians in Residences. Sadly, not all of these can be made publicly > available (or at least, they haven't been to date). > # Press releases. When there's an upcoming significant press release from a > Wikimedia organisation, then it should be good practice to share it with the > other movement partners prior to its release, so that they are aware of it, > can provide feedback, and can plan around it. Some of this already happens on > wmfcc-l, but not consistently - much more could be done here. > # Domain names. There is a list of these on internal already, which is > actually being maintained by some people. Tackling squatted domain names and > keeping track of who owns what is a global problem that should be done > collaboratively, but in confidence, rather than just by individual > organisations. > # Contact information for the various organisations. Some of this can be done > publicly, but not all, and it would be good to have a central place for this > information anyway. > # Notices of sensitive activities. E.g. if there's an upcoming risk of law > suits, infrastructure difficulties within organisations, etc. then it would > be good to be able to share these and ask for help without publishing them to > the world at the same time. That doesn't need a mailing list - it can be done > on a wiki. > # … and I'm sure there's more examples that can go here, this isn't trying to > be a complete list! > > So, rather than close the internal wiki, I'd like to propose a radical > redesign and repurposing of it. Is there the interest and willingness in the > WMF and the chapters to share such information with each other? > > Thanks, > Mike > (Note: this is a personal viewpoint, not necessarily that of WMUK.) > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
