[Translators-l] Thank you for Tech News & see you soon

[Aya Mahfouz]

Hello Everyone,

  I think a petition should be initiated by the community members. A patch
like this should have had an RFC...

Kind Regards,
Aya Saif El-yazal Mahfouz


On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Hong, Yena <lists at revi.pe.kr> wrote:

> The revert on gerrit does not mean actual revert - it means 'revert is
> proposed'.
>
> -Yena Hong (Revi)
> -- Sent from Android --
> Wasn't this patch was reverted ?
> Anyway it is a patch within MediaWiki software, which may be useful with
> some wikis outside Wikimedia. It i not a patch meant to be used on
> Wikimedia projects without discussions ab out how "superadmins" will be
> designated and without a policy about their nomination and permitted
> actions.
> The patch is initially WITHOUT any user allowed (not even any existing
> default admin groups). I think that if it is integrated in Wikiemdia
> projects, they will include some existing administrator groups but there
> will be a need for discussing which groups to include in them; my opinionis
> that if they are implemented, all their actions will need to be coordinated
> by a common action approved by at least two or three admins in this group,
> which are also admins on distinct wikimedia projects; to avoid superabuse.
> But without a policy, no one can be nominated for now (and I don't think
> that even the WMF staff should be member of this group, unless they are
> nominated by the community).
>
> I don't see why you take this decision so fast when this has not even been
> deployed and this patch was even reverted !
>
> There are tons of options in MediaWiki that are not used in Wikimedia
> projects but meant for other wikis (including wikis for closed proprietary
> projects).
>
>
>
> 2014-08-10 17:43 GMT+02:00 Tomasz W. Kozłowski <twkozlowski at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello translators,
>> it is with great regret that I am forced to suspend my activity on
>> Tech News with immediate effect.
>>
>> After <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/153302/> was merged and
>> deployed to the Wikimedia cluster earlier today, implementing a new
>> protection level which prevents volunteer Wikimedians from editing
>> certain wiki pages, I can no longer in good conscience support the
>> Wikimedia Foundation.
>>
>> <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/153302/> is a change that I find
>> completely unacceptable. It is a change that stands in direct
>> contradiction to the wonderful cooperation between the Foundation and
>> the volunteer community that's been Tech News.
>>
>> It has been a great pleasure working with you on Tech News for the
>> past year, but after this disgusting usurpation of power and sickening
>> cheek towards the community, I am forced to suspend my involvement
>> with Tech News.
>>
>> From now on, I will neither work on the English version of Tech News,
>> nor translate future issues into Polish.
>>
>> If you agree with my feelings towards this change, please consider
>> suspending your translations of Tech News as well as other volunteer
>> translations you are doing for the Foundation (especially if they are
>> fundraising translations).
>>
>> I am planning to suspend my involvement with Tech News until
>> <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/153302/> is reverted but until
>> that day comes, I cannot volunteer my time and effort for the
>> Foundation any further.
>>
>> The current issue of Tech News will be published by Guillaume
>> tomorrow, as usual. I have no information about the future issues, but
>> perhaps Tech News can continue without me.
>>
>> Thank you for your time, and the best of luck to you all.
>>
>>                 Tomasz
>>
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