On 20 January 2016 at 22:08, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 2016-01-19 12:53 PM, Pine W wrote: > >> > >> The constitutional crisis that WMF created by using Superprotect to > force > >> Image VIewer on the communities [...] > > > > > > ... except that this is not what happened. While that narrative might be > > satisfying for someone who looks for a sense of being the stalwart > defender > > of an oppressed community, the reality is that superprotect was created > to > > block the deployment of a technically inapt and entirely broken "fix" > that > > was - itself - a kneejerk reaction. > > > > Which is not to say that its creation or use was wise in any way - it > > wasn't. But trying to reframe things in "oh, evil WMF did all wrong > against > > the poor, innocent community" terms serves no purpose other than create a > > windmill to tilt at. > > It is comments like this from WMF staff which make me think that WMF > has not yet really internalised the reason why VE, MV, etc. were such > a problem. > > Marc is not a member of the WMF staff. Risker/Anne _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
