On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:07 AM, bawolff <bawolff...@gmail.com> wrote: >>That said, I'm not overly irritated. There are a few links I need to >>update, but that's doable. Thanks for handling this issue, and for being >>responsive to the concerns raised. > > While there's 475 links to wikitech-l archives on en wikipedia. That's > more than a "few" imo. > > The real concern here is that many of those links will never be fixed, > and people looking in the obscure talk page archives of wikipedia, > will never be able to find the relavent mailing posts. This makes it > much harder to look into the history of certain things. I'm aware > similar incidents have happened in the past - that does not make > future incidents ok. >
Indeed. Sorry if I implied that. I think the proper way forward is to: 1. Adjust our procedures for thread deletion so that this situation doesn't occur again. 2. Fix the links, if the effort level isn't insane. > Secondly, I'd just like to extend a giant *hug* to Daniel Zahn, who > from the sounds of it did not expect this to be such a controversial > issue. > > Third, I'd like to reiterate what others said about folks taking a > chill pill. Additionally I'd like to add that mistakes happen, we all > make them. The important thing is to realize we've made a mistake, > mitigate the affect of the mistake, and document the mistakes so that > others don't make them. Yelling and screaming about mistakes doesn't > really help anything. > +1 Things break, mistakes get made, etc. It's a normal part of life, and a very normal part of ops. It makes for a much nicer environment when people point out issues in a calm and polite fashion. - Ryan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
