On 10 April 2013 22:07, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oliver Keyes, 10/04/2013 22:43: > > >> Are you speaking of yourself here? :) >> >> >> As opposed to, speaking as a staffer? Well, I work for Product >> Development. So the chances of me giving binding policy statements on >> privacy issues are slim to none :). >> > > No: as opposed to, a staffer that is also not a very active editor. :) The > part on personal identifying information is one I understand and that's why > I asked about it, but I don't think it should be on officewiki either; the > other part on editor background I didn't understand, and I think staffer or > editor is the same for that. > > When I say "editor background" I mean things like their name, their personal background - from those interviews I've seen, things like job and location frequently come into it - so on and so forth. I see a fairly substantive difference, there, in whether we give that information to staffers (on a need-to-know basis) or decide to give it to volunteers who are "trusted", for a given value of trusted. > >> Speaking personally: I can't think of a single good reason why Victor's >> stuff should be released. [...] >> > > Neither I do. I only asked if they *require* the compartmentalisation that > e.g. Tom described – otherwise they could as well happen in a slightly > different context (like for instance "use the internal wiki more", given > that's the thread we're in). > > Yep; there's no reason we should be giving that sort of thing out to random chapters people or trusted volunteers; they have no use case for it. > > >> An illustration here would be: I've got my engagement strategy for what >> became Page Curation on officewiki. It's a place where I can write and >> rewrite it, my bosses can check it for stupid, and if there *is* stupid >> we catch it before it causes problems. >> > > This is fine. Way better than Google Docs shared with few people and then > quickly lost! > > Agreed. Every time someone says "we can just use a google doc!" I groan ;p. It's like: you know, if only we *built* a collaborative document editing too-wait. -- Oliver Keyes Community Liaison, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
